dlenaghan
Member
Well, it happened once and tried to fix it before, but I'm short on tools and am looking for DIY suggestions before I take it into a shop.
Basically (and I'll try to get some photos up soon..) the black pickup itself is set within a chrome frame, and it's this chrome frame that is set into the body of the bass, in my case, a 1970 JS-II. When I first got the bass, after playing it a while, this black housing popped off of the chrome frame. When I unscrewed the chrome frame, I saw that it was only attached to the black housing (where all the "pickup" parts are, screws, magnets, etc) with some kind of tape that had become very much desiccated with time. I'm sure it was solid once upon a time.
So the only means I had was to line the inner lip of the chrome with superglue and press and hold the black housing into the chrome frame. It worked, but it's ugly, since as we all know when superglue dries its vapors cloud things that are nearby so I've got this cloudy white finish on the top of the black bisonic. I don't care so much about that, but this was about a year ago and the black housing is coming off slowly, bit by bit, again.
So when I'm playing, as I do, with fingers that sometimes rest on the top of the pickup (if I'm playing using my thumb and first two fingers all finger-picking style sometimes I rest my ring and pinkie fingers on the top of the housing for best leverage and pressure), or even regular finger-style and my plucking fingers tap the top of the black housing hard enough to add some pressure to the top..
There's just got to be a better way than superglue.
Basically (and I'll try to get some photos up soon..) the black pickup itself is set within a chrome frame, and it's this chrome frame that is set into the body of the bass, in my case, a 1970 JS-II. When I first got the bass, after playing it a while, this black housing popped off of the chrome frame. When I unscrewed the chrome frame, I saw that it was only attached to the black housing (where all the "pickup" parts are, screws, magnets, etc) with some kind of tape that had become very much desiccated with time. I'm sure it was solid once upon a time.
So the only means I had was to line the inner lip of the chrome with superglue and press and hold the black housing into the chrome frame. It worked, but it's ugly, since as we all know when superglue dries its vapors cloud things that are nearby so I've got this cloudy white finish on the top of the black bisonic. I don't care so much about that, but this was about a year ago and the black housing is coming off slowly, bit by bit, again.
So when I'm playing, as I do, with fingers that sometimes rest on the top of the pickup (if I'm playing using my thumb and first two fingers all finger-picking style sometimes I rest my ring and pinkie fingers on the top of the housing for best leverage and pressure), or even regular finger-style and my plucking fingers tap the top of the black housing hard enough to add some pressure to the top..
There's just got to be a better way than superglue.
