I bassed so hard, I literally slapped the coils out of my pickup.

[Rosin41]

I had a gig with my band in Little Rock last night, and got a little crazy with the slapping. To clarify, my "slapping" technique is probably terrible; I just hold a power chord and whack all the strings with my hand. Anyway, this happened:

It didn't happen until halfway through the last song in our set, so that's nice. I'm going to try to put the pickup back together, but if I can't, it wasn't a very expensive one anyway.

 

[Goatrope]

 

[MattZilla]

dassum hard bassin!

 

[4SG]

Slap? Looks like you did the latter:

 

[Mr_Moo]

No problem, the important poles are still there.

 

[mrcbass]

Wow, had no idea that was even possible.

 

[two fingers]

Lower your caffeine intake.

 

[Rosin41]

Got it fixed yesterday without replacing any parts. I used double-sided tape to hold the covers on the coils, and I guess time will tell if that is strong enough. A second problem was that when I did some soldering when initially installing the pickup, I had apparently melted some of the insulation on one of the wires. This was fine until the Slappening jostled things around, causing the upper coil to ground itself out. A little snipping, soldering, and heat-shrinking, and that problem was fixed too.

 

[Rosin41]

Lower your caffeine intake.

That is probably good advice.

 

[salcott]

Just epoxy everything in place-then you can beat your bass as hard as you want. The other alternative is to learn how to play aggressively without damaging your instrument.

 

[ak56]

... The other alternative is to learn how to play aggressively without damaging your instrument.

But where's the fun in that?