: What is the purpose of this piece of wood between the pickups? I have seen some basses that have this piece of wood between the pickups: What is the purpose of this? If I'm not mistaken, some of the pieces of seen have

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That is a bass ramp, which is (emphasis mine):

simply a piece of wood, shaped to fit directly in between the pickups
so it would feel uniform all of the way across.

Apparently this can aid with developing your playing technique:

It is significantly easier to develop a light and speedy touch with a
ramp because it simply doesn’t allow you to play too hard (especially
if you keep your pickups and ramp pretty high and close to the
strings.

For more information, see e.g. this article I have quoted from.