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Permalink Reply by Lark Leazar on August 8, 2021 at 12:58am

If he's wanting the classic bass sound (Fender Precision bass), you want a split coil pickup and flat wound strings.  Something like this from EB*y.  If you really want a LOT of information, repost this question to www.talkbass.com

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Permalink Reply by Eric Shepherd on August 9, 2021 at 1:57pm

Thanks for that.. I had a look through talkbass and the question had been asked before but there were so many conflicting answers unless you were a bass fanatic you'd not be able to pull the relevant info out.. I've built a whole bunch of 3 and 4 string guitars but never a 2 string bass so while construction seems straight forward the electrics not so much..

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on August 8, 2021 at 4:04pm

Those are good pickups, gitty has some split style Bass pickups for a reasonable price?
https://www.cbgitty.com/cigar-box-guitar-parts/pair-of-black-enclos...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Shepherd on August 9, 2021 at 12:54pm

Excellent, thanks for that.. I had a look at the Gitty site but seem to have missed those.. He's a pretty good bass player but up to his neck in kids and mortgages but would like to have one..

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Permalink Reply by Lark Leazar on August 10, 2021 at 12:27am

Yeah - like many forums, the talkbass crowd can get into details and overwhelm you.  There's nothing magic about a bass pickup.  Squier sells a short scale bass that has a guitar (strat) pickup in it.   Since it's just two strings, you could just use half of a split coil pickup.  You'll lose the humbucking, but it'll still work.  Or just use what you have laying around.  I have a Yamaha split coil pickup listed in the TalkBass classifieds, but it's not any cheaper than the options others have pointed out here. 

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on August 10, 2021 at 5:17am

Not sure if you’ve been to the Resources tab, but here’s a 2 string Bass made from a 2x4

https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/306270002?profi...

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on August 11, 2021 at 3:34pm

Hi Eric, here is what I did. I split the pickups so that I had p/ups for two guitars.

Here's my cutting edge ba........er, I mean cutting board bass. I even cut the bridge in half. And you could say half the neck, but I can't use the half I cut off. Ha ha. Cheers Taff

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