Wazzup with this?

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:56 am

July 1961 wife, here.
Okay, now that we've cleared that

, here's my November '70 21 fretter again, Elys...
Sorry...

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:43 am

Sergio,

November '70 is close enough to my wife's late Sept '70 birthday! Does that mean I win!

I'd love to see that maple in person! Looks nice!

Kevin

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:59 am

1951 vintage here!

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:10 am

Sérgio, it plucks my heart strings in the most harsh and painful fashion to see this bass, this sweet lady, laid out like this, yearning for my gentle touch, speaking to me across the vast Atlantic Ocean, sweet sweet torture. I count the days, the hours, the minutes, until she is mine.......

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:15 am

Since I married someone much younger than myself, I must honestly admit to a Sept 1969 model wife.

But Sérgio, now I have found my true love, my future betrothed, and she is a November 1970

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:28 am

Uh-oh! It's love - I can tell!

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:38 pm

Is having a 21 fretter the same has having an amp that goes to eleven? It's one more in'it....

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:42 pm

Who needs 21 frets, anyway? You guys never learned to bend strings?

Seriously, that's a real beauty, Sergio!

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:08 pm

"my fiancee was born in July of 1973"

Funny, so was this:

I have a Dec '60 model!

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:30 pm

I'd love to find a July with checkered binding, if I recall that's the one with the hipshot tuners.(I think).

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:51 pm

Here's the July 73 I was originally referring to. Here she is being very British and hoisting her pint(she's from Lancashire). I think I've talked her into leaving that nice weather over there and staying in Florida for a while.

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:25 pm

Nice FG she is wearing, too!

Yep, Hipshot tuners.

heinpete · Post by **heinpete** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:30 pm

Jeff: That's a nice bass! How do the hipshot light tuners look from behind? I thought of replacing the Grovers on my "sister", but they work amazingly well, at least better than the 1975 onwards used Schaller BMC chrome open back machine heads. However the new 4003 tuners(about 1994 onwards) with Ric engraved base plate have an additional spring washer in them that makes them now work perfect.

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:48 am

Here's what they look like on a five string conversion, they are one of the best tuners and the lightest.

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:56 am

Hey! That's an expertly done modification to be sure. Too bad I'm not fond of 5 stringers, otherwise that's how I'd mod a 4 string Rick. Nice.