Grabber pickup slider plate

$50.00

My vintage spec reproduction of the pickup slider plate for the famed Gibson Grabber bass.  This will drop right in a vintage bass, or with the router templates, can be retrofitted to another bass.

True to vintage spec in all dims.  Can even be custom cut for other pickups if so desired.

I have also created a set of nested router templates to create the slider pocket.  Go through the gallery pics to see the process of converting a Pbass to a PB-Grabber.  My router template design slightly differs from the original Gibson design and are not totally vintage correct.  Gibson’s original design attached felt padding to the back of the plastic plate on the ends.  This put extra upward pressure which causes the pickguard to bow over time and the plate to get floppy. This method also had the felt sliding across the painted body cavity, not near as smooth as felt sliding on plastic.  My design puts the felt in the body route just slightly above the wood.  This allows the plastic slider plate to ride on the felt just above body cavity.  The felt installed at the edge of the pickup route better supports the plate making it more secure and requiring less upwards pressure.  Lastly having the plastic plate sliding on felt makes for a much smoother travel.

You can get my vintage correct version of the original Grabber pickup to go with the slider plate

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