Sloppy vintage tuners

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:01 am

I like your Bug, Paul. Did you do all the customizing yourself?(I'm guessing the answer is yes!) If so, you're a talented guy.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:13 am

A bit too conservative for me!!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:21 am

Here's the verdict of my two boys:

SUH-WEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

I think they like it.

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:27 am

Of course, Paul, they now have all kinds of crazy ideas about what you can do to my Rics, after I told them that you are the guy that is going to refinish a couple of my guitars!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:35 am

Aitch, I'd be glad to build you one in Ivory and Cadillac Green? (Nudge, nudge)...

Jeff, I designed that car in 1968, when I was 19 years old. I set up a company to manufacture them in Chicago, in 1975. I built 26 of them between 1975 and late 1977. I own the last one built, which was constructed for the Chicago Automobile Show in 1977, and it has been restored and rebuilt five times since (once in Brasil). This car resides at my studio in Brasil and was supposed to return to California last month, but events transpired and not it'll be in the near future, date uncertain...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:40 am

Consider me nudged, Paul!

I don't know whether Paul could bring himself to do something like that to a Rick, Melissa. If he did, he'd probably be continually wiping tears off his work!!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:43 am

Oh I know, Aitch! My kids would love a flameglo Ric or something equally outrageous, but I have other ideas--Paul seems to be cool with them!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:48 am

Yeah........... save the flameglo for something cheap and nasty...... but then, you don't have any of those, do you?

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:58 am

Wellll.....I do have one non-Ric electric that is definitely cheap, but I woudn't quite call it "NASTY," LOL!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:19 pm

Cheap 'n' cheerful, then?

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:26 pm

Something like that...it's a Danelectro in a cool color (I'd post a pic, but my hubby took the digital camera to Europe, LOL!)..... It won't be needing a refin any time soon. I haven't touched it since I got my first Ric--it doesn't even come CLOSE in sound, although it does have kind of a cool retro look to it.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:59 pm

Make sure you do post one the minute...... er week... he comes back!!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:04 pm

Probably will not be hanging out here nearly as much when he gets back--I love the friends I have here, but I love--and miss--him more, LOL! It'll be at least a week before I even think about pictures!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:11 pm

That's exactly what I was thinking!

rickplayer · Post by **rickplayer** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:57 am

I have seen some of the 12 string reissues with tuner problems. I have found sometimes the screws that attach the tuner are a bit long and sometimes interfere with the opposing tuner. Check it out, by backing out the screws and see if the tuner binds. If so, you can file a little bit of the screff off the tip. May not be the problem, but worth checking.