mica is it possible to still somehow order some old rings for these older style pups?I knoticed the holes are there where there was once rings.

That's so cool, a hand hammered brass control plate.

Your pickups look fairly typical for the trapezoid style with a brass bar under the pickup for mounting. I'm not seeing the holes - can you point me to them?
 
Also, with the thumbrest there, even if we made a ring for the pickups, it would be pretty skinny.

the holes are right under the E string & the other holes are right under the G string,I'll load up another pic from another angle.

I think I see them, on the edge of the neck pickup on the fingerboard side only. Maybe it was a truss rod cover?

Ive placed tooth pics in the holes where the rings once were.http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture015mb6.jpg

I had an old bass with the trapezoidal pickups and the rings.  The rings were made out of walnut and oil finished.  The bass was not an Alembic, but an Alembic modified Guild.
 
I also had an Alembic from 1975 that had brass rings.  They were quite ornate looking like these brackets on the adjustment sides of the pickups:
 
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I wish I had pics of that bass.  It was quite cool.

To make rings for this bass, we'd need the instrument to be here for fitting, otherwise the chances that it would fit are slim.  
 
I don't know what the original rings were made of on this bass, or if there were there from the beginning or added later. To not interfere with the function of the pickups, they need to be non-conductive (like wood).

Cool!!!...when i come back to san francisco this summer to visit my family I'll make sure to bring the Bass!.......thanks!

Keavin:
 
If you're going to be in the Bay Area, please give us a head's up.  If possible, I'd love to see Old No. 12 in the flesh (in the wood?).  Maybe a quick meet & greet in Santa Rosa?
 
Bill, tgo

Will do, I'll post here.

Kevin,  
Cool pic on Imageshack ... it looks like an anti-slapper spike array to keep untrained hands offa your baby.
 
 
Mike