I was toying with the idea of putting some paint on the body, when I had the bright idea to see if the bridge pickup was going to fit in it's cavity. I thought I might have to clean out a bit of the grainfiller...but discovered that there was a bigger problem. The cavity was just too small, and needed to be a bit wider. I have now widened it a bit with a rotary tool.
I used an old pickup to do the fitting. The finished bass will have an EMG Geezer Butler PJ set, but I'd rather keep them out of the sawdust. The PJ set is also the reason for the enlarged neck pickup cavity. There are also a couple of small places in the pic where I put a little more filler because, of course, my Dremeling is no more accurate than my playing...and I nicked a couple of places. Lucky for me that paint and pickguards can cover a multitude of sins ;-)
Speaking of sins... I sanded through the sealer in a few places. I can definitely feel where I did that, but when I look under magnification it looks like there is filler in the spaces. I have been debating whether to put one more coat of filler just over the sanded through spots. But I probably won't. If it looks like it needs more pore filling after one coat of paint, I can fill with AquaCoat, which dries clear. If have done that before and it has worked reasonably well.
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