Pickup Problem
 

Hey Ken,

I recently purchased a Ken Smith BSR 6 string bass and I absolutely love it. However, I have noticed that the pickups move up when i have my thumb on them. Last night I had a show and after 15 minutes of playing the pickup was touching the string which made a challenging song to play even more challenging as I had to hold it down. What can I do to remedy this problem?

Mike

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Have you tried to adjust the screws further downward? Do they not hold?

Have the P/U Set Screws been adjusted so much that they have stripped out from the wood? If this is the case, a quick, cheap and easy solution could be: You could carefully pull the P/U's out and fill the stripped out hole(s) with some wooden tooth-picks (just take a tooth pick; stick it into the hole and break it off at the top of the body. Repeat this until you fill the hole up. Then, carefully reset the P/U's with the screws. You should feel a more tight and secure fit with the screws into the hole you filled. This is a very simple solution and it will work, however, if you are not comfortable doing this, find someone qualified who is.

Make sense?

Tim B.

Thank you! It seems to have done the trick.

which was it? stripped or just adjusted too far up?

It appears the problem was that it was stripped.