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Originally Posted by id10t
Just a dumb question if I may...
With an electric, you aren't depending on the body to provide any tone, amplification, etc - just hold the pickups in proper place in relation to the strings, or are you?
If that is the purpose of the body, could you not get creative and go goofy with a stock blank ?  Maybe something with wood from a nice old double or something....
Or are you just after that particular bass for musical reasons? |
No. Shape, density, materials, and pickups themselves will all have an impact on the final tone of the guitar/bass. It is possible to completely isolate a pickup from the guitar, such as by holding pickup over the strings and connected to a cord.
If you were correct, the same model pickup would sound the same in all guitars. And as a pickup maker, I know this not to be true.
A pickup will take all factors and work with it, either by amplifying good or bad aspects of the guitar.