{"id":8895,"date":"2016-05-18T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2016-05-18T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:03:50","slug":"how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-routing-the-pickup-cavity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-routing-the-pickup-cavity.html","title":{"rendered":"How to build a bass guitar – Routing the pickup cavity"},"content":{"rendered":"

We last left off with routing the control cavity, and now it’s time to move on to routing the pickup cavity.<\/p>\n

Below: What we’ll be using. Two clamps, the body template, router and body block (in progress.)<\/p>\n

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Below: The layout of pickup route drawn on body. While it is not necessary to draw in the pickup shapes inside the drawn route, it’s a good habit to get into to help visualize the final instrument.<\/p>\n

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Below: The body is positioned for clamping.<\/p>\n

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Below: The template is positioned.<\/p>\n

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Below: Clamps are then positioned to hold body and template in place.<\/p>\n

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Below: Routing the first pass, about 1\/4-inch at a time. Multiple passes are usually to achieve the depth desired. The final depth will be 5\/8-inch. Since P-bass style pickups aren’t as tall as jazz pickups, 5\/8-inch will work fine. If we were routing for Jazz Bass style pickups, 3\/4-inch would usually be used.<\/p>\n

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(Note: BBG carries extra-long pickup screws for deep routes<\/a>, should you need them.)<\/p>\n

Below: The first pass is completed.<\/p>\n

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Below: Second pass is completed.<\/p>\n

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Below: The third pass completed, and it’s here we check for the depth of 5\/8-inch that we want.<\/p>\n

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Below: The route is completed.<\/p>\n

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Where are the rest of the build steps?
You can view them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We last left off with routing the control cavity, and now it’s time to move on to routing the pickup cavity. Below: What we’ll be using. Two clamps, the body template, router and body block (in progress.) Below: The layout of pickup route drawn on body. While it is not necessary to draw in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}