DESCRIPTION

When you are building a custom bass from scratch or heavily modifying your favorite existing instrument, routing the body wood for a new set of pickups is one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the entire process. There is absolutely no room for error. You want the absolute confidence that your pickup cavities will be flawlessly straight, perfectly dimensioned, and professionally clean. The Fat Bass Tone laser-cut pickup routing templates are designed specifically to eliminate all of the stressful guesswork and give you exactly that level of boutique perfection.

Unlike cheap, flimsy plastic guides or printed paper cutouts that can easily shift or tear during the routing process, our templates are manufactured with extreme precision. They are heavily laser-cut from high-quality, durable materials that provide a rigid, unyielding edge for your router bearing to follow. This guarantees a butter-smooth, incredibly clean cavity wall every single time you fire up your power tools. To make the alignment process as precise as possible, each template features highly visible center line markings. This allows you to easily reference your instrument's exact center axis, ensuring your new pickups sit perfectly under the strings for optimal magnetic response and balanced output.

We know that the modern bass market is filled with a massive variety of proprietary pickup sizes, which is why we offer these routing templates for virtually every shape and size you can possibly imagine. Whether you are installing standard P-bass, J-Bass, soapbars, or even some of the much less common footprints, like the uniquely sized Delano Xtender pickups, we have the exact template you need to get the job done right.

Taking a high-speed router to an expensive piece of tonewood or a beautifully finished bass body requires total trust in your tooling. A sloppy, oversized, or crooked pickup route will instantly ruin the aesthetic of your instrument. These templates are an inexpensive, absolutely mandatory investment for any serious DIY builder or professional luthier looking to execute a flawless modification.

If you want the absolute, unshakable certainty that your next bass project will come out looking like it just rolled out of a world-class boutique custom shop, order the exact template you need, lock it down, and route with total confidence.

Routing Templates for a variety of common pickup shapes.

Jazz Bass®, Precision Bass®, Music Man®, and Soapbar shape routing templates are produced by Nordstrand Audio on their laser cutter.

Approximate Size of Acrylic:
4" [101.6mm] Length
6" [152.4mm] Wide
.19" [4.8mm] Thick

Xtender shape routing templates are produced by Delano Pickups.

Approximate Size of Acrylic:
3.9" [100mm] Length
6.2" [160mm] Wide
.2" [5mm] Thick

Dimensions of the pickup route are slightly larger than the actual pickup by 1-2mm. This allows for very slight variations in manufacturer sizing, and also allows proper height adjustment for pickups.

NOTE: Always test-fit your pickup in the routing template before routing your bass.