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NICE Ric spin on the 12-string bass!! All the original Hamer 12-string basses were short-scale for the first decade or so. I've played and owned many 12-string basses since the 80s, as well as many 8-string basses. I also own one of the first ones made, the Hamer Quadbass. Hamer made fewer than 10 b...

Not red......BLACK crushed pearl sharkfins would have put this over the top !!

Still, a gorgeous bass.

Keep in mind that extra $5k was IN ADDITION TO my other $7k he already had that he was trying to figure out how to keep!!! So I said to forget it. I had the bass for about a week, trying to get it to play right. No luck...and I'm real good at setting up basses. I agree with you that the seller likel...

Thanks for the replies.... I've dug up info on the arc welder method....you can also use a large, commercial battery charger. Basically, you make two large coils of wire, one for each leg of the horseshoe.....oriented for opposite polarities, one on each leg of the horseshoe...wired together at the ...

Yeah....I had bought this bass but returned it after deciding it had too many issues for the price. The final straw was finding an undisclosed route under the horseshoe surround when I pulled the cover off. I made the seller a reasonable offer based on all the issues and missing parts but we could n...

I picked up a NOS 30-year-old Magnetizer.....Owner manual says it put out "a peak minimum (at half cycle)" of 100 amps on the coil current, with " at least 7 kilogauss peak" magnetic field. Anyone know if that should be sufficient to remagnetize old horshoe halves? You remagnetiz...

Simple math:

"The $um of the Part$ is Greater Than the Whole."

Yeah, the 60s ones have the hairpin truss rods. Both my '66 and my '68 are adjusted almost flat at pitch and I have the same light gauge strings on each. But the bridge adjustment on each differed quite a bit. .....which is what made me ask how much difference from bass to bass was there during that...

Nothing lower than a guy who rips off a musician's gear. Sorry to hear that. Definitely give police the SN#, since pawn shops are required to check the stolen property database when they buy instruments. Make a flyer with photos of the basses and serial numbers and send them to area music stores. Po...

Thanks for all the feedback and ideas. As I suspected, there were a number of factory direct neck problems, as well as ones caused by things done to the basses by players. So I don't feel as bad after hearing this is a common problem on late 60s ones. Most of you would probably think my bass plays g...

So.....if this is common on 60s Ric Basses...is it due to how some were actually built, such as an inconsistent neck angle? Or is it due to a flaw that has developed over time, such as the neck maybe pulling forward from use of high tension strings on a bass for years? I have a couple 60s 4001s and ...

Does anyone know the lowest tension core over saddle strings?

I normally use Dean Markley SR strings light gauge on my other basses, which are core over saddle type....but they are stainless steel round wounds.

OK....What are my options to lower the action on a late 60s 4001 ? The neck is pretty much adjusted/dialed in as straight/flat as possible. just about a piece of paper's worth of relief. I put light gauge strings on it to let it pull itself backward a bit. The bridge is dropped all the way down on t...

Yeah, that's sort of what they looked like to me...but the bottom one reads like 6.9-7k on my meter.

That is what was confusing me, with the low reading and the green circuitboard material.... Had me
thinking that maybe there was some transition bridge PUP I hadn't heard of?

So...is it that no one knows how long Ric made this type of low output bridge bobbins on the green circuitboards with button poles? Or is it a dumb question? I thought that the bridge PUPs after the horseshoe types ended were high output? Is that incorrect and they remained low output but just had n...