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- Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Low End
- Topic: Microfrets bass
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9494
Re: Microfrets bass
Mike Rutherford had a MicroFrets double neck, and a 6 string bass. He used the 6 string bass on the Lame Lies Down album.
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Low End
- Topic: New budget friendly wood for guitar/bass?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14380
Re: New budget friendly wood for guitar/bass?
Did you ever see the guitar Bob Taylor made from a pallet?cjj wrote:I've come across some pallets that were made of some pretty nice hardwoods...
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- Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:35 pm
- Forum: Winding Up With The Best: by Sergio Silva
- Topic: Toaster covers on HiGains W/ adj. pole pieces
- Replies: 64
- Views: 94140
Re: Toaster covers on HiGains W/ adj. pole pieces
Something else to try is to replace that rubber magnet with a regular ceramic, or even neo magnets. The rubber magnets are very weak. A stronger magnet would give you more top end and bite.
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: Winding Up With The Best: by Sergio Silva
- Topic: Who Does Pickup Rewinds for Ric Bass (in USA)?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11252
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:08 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker Basses: by Joey Vasco & Tony Cabibe
- Topic: Destroyed bass restoration
- Replies: 66
- Views: 13271
Re: Destroyed bass restoration
Very nice work!
I'm getting ready to do something similar to one of my basses where I went router happy back in the 70s lol It wasn't that bad though.
Was that actually maple you used? The grain looked more like some kind of fur or other softwood. It shouldn't matter though.
I'm getting ready to do something similar to one of my basses where I went router happy back in the 70s lol It wasn't that bad though.
Was that actually maple you used? The grain looked more like some kind of fur or other softwood. It shouldn't matter though.
- Tue Jun 24, 2014 5:11 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker Basses: by Joey Vasco & Tony Cabibe
- Topic: '73 4001 trussrod nut size
- Replies: 2
- Views: 564
Re: '73 4001 trussrod nut size
Thanks!Wiker wrote:Lovely bass.
UNF 10-32 threading on old style truss rods.
And yes it is!
I own a pair... March and August '73 4001s that both look like this, only the March bass has the checker binding, full width fingerboard inlays, and the split bridge. And they both have toasters.
- Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:03 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker Basses: by Joey Vasco & Tony Cabibe
- Topic: '73 4001 trussrod nut size
- Replies: 2
- Views: 564
'73 4001 trussrod nut size
Hi everyone. I searched for this, but didn't find the answer. I'm repairing a 4001 bass from Sept 1973. It had the usual issue where someone tightened the bent (hairpin style) rods too tight, and the threaded end bent down into the wood. The rod on the bass side was extended so much that I could not...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:15 am
- Forum: Rickenbacker Basses: by Joey Vasco & Tony Cabibe
- Topic: Remaking The Horseshoe Bass Bobbin
- Replies: 224
- Views: 46177
Re: Remaking The Horseshoe Bass Bobbin
Just like "Glass Onion" - White Album. I hate to break it to you, but that was a 1966 Fender Jazz Bass. Sad, but true. Also, I'm wondering why you used 42 AWG when you should have used 44. But that's why it would sound like Glass Onion. ;) You wound a Jazz bass pickup. Nice work however. :)
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:08 pm
- Forum: Reflections of a Curmudgeon: by Paul Wilczynski
- Topic: How Legal Is This?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9754
Re: How Legal Is This?
The best action is John Hall or someone in his behalf who work for Rickenbacker buy the blueprint from the seller. When the item arrive to Ric offices the 1 step is send a e-mail to the seller telling the item is ilegal because there are a violation of a patent guitar or bass and recover the money....
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:50 pm
- Forum: Reflections of a Curmudgeon: by Paul Wilczynski
- Topic: How Legal Is This?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9754
Re: How Legal Is This?
Nowhere in the description does the seller mention the word "art". It also says nothing about being suitable for framing. I think the fact that the seller is a luthier supply shop gives us a pretty big clue as to the plans intended use. You can build yourself a copy of a Ric. You just can...
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:44 pm
- Forum: Winding Up With The Best: by Sergio Silva
- Topic: Unwinding an HB-1, hard?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5221
Re: Unwinding an HB-1, hard?
Wire the pickup in parallel. If each coil is 5k, in parallel the pickup will read 2.5k. It will sound cleaner and brighter, and will still be hum canceling.cassius987 wrote:Dane, the main reason is because I'd like to keep the humbucking property. But obviously this idea was ill-fated.
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:14 am
- Forum: Rickenbacker Basses: by Joey Vasco & Tony Cabibe
- Topic: Markbass VS Ampeg SVT
- Replies: 79
- Views: 10703
Re: Markbass VS Ampeg SVT
I'd vote Markbass. The SVT is my least favorite bass amp... ever. It's only 300 watts, so I don't know why everyone thinks it's so loud. You can't get a decent clean tone out of them, and the worst part IMO is the tone stack. If you set the amp flat, it's not flat. It always has this big hump at 250...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:34 am
- Forum: Rickenbacker Artists
- Topic: Roger Glover w 4001 in Montreux '71
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7880
Re: Roger Glover w 4001 in Montreux '71
I saw Deep Purple at the Felt Forum in NYC back in '73, and Roger was playing the JG bass with the Jazz pickups.
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:31 pm
- Forum: Forum 51 - The Quest For Tone: by Mike Snow
- Topic: Dawning Realisation...
- Replies: 94
- Views: 6177
Re: Dawning Realisation...
Hah! Believe it or not, John Paul Jones claims he never used flatwounds in Zeppelin. Now try and get the "Dazed & Confused" or "Lemon Song" tone with a Jazz/roundwounds. Ain't happenin'. Wasn't he playing the Gibson EB-1 then? I know Rotosound Swingbass came out in '66, and ...
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:17 am
- Forum: Reflections of a Curmudgeon: by Paul Wilczynski
- Topic: WHY? OH, WHY?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1702
Re: WHY? OH, WHY?
I also think this whole relic thing is stupid. First off, the word "relic" means something that is obsolete. I own several rather old guitars like a '59 Jazzmaster and a '72 Mustang, and two '74 4001's, they don't look like "relics"! I also had a mid 60's Mosrite Ventures bass an...