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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:42 pm
by atomic_punk
Paul, I've got enough snow/frost/freezing right now in this "enchanted mitten" I live in, thank you!
Today's temp? A balmy 16 degrees.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:24 pm
by jingle_jangle
"Secret ingredient in the CV to prevent checking."
Nice apocrypha.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:54 pm
by ghs_boomer
My 4003 checked in several places. I posted photo's here somewhere.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:24 pm
by alanz
As a Slovene-American I generally don't worry about Czechs. Serbs, maybe; Czechs, no.
Sorry, what was the question?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:12 pm
by jojo99
So if I spray canned dust remover on my plain binding, it will become checked? Too cool! I'm gonna do it right now....
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:13 pm
by jojo99
****! I shoulda read this thread more closely..."checked" isn't the same as "checkered", I just found out....
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:34 pm
by sloop_john_b
I opened my 370/12BB right away, outside, on a warm-ish February day in NYC. I knew nothing of "acclimating" or what-have-you. I paid the price. No finish checking yet, but the finish has sort of "lifted" and cracked around the heel. Terribly unsightly.
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:35 am
by ghs_boomer
Ok, the clear coat on my 4003 mapleglo "Cracked" in several places........gosh!!
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:35 am
by jingle_jangle
My first Rick--a 660-12--arrived in mid-December from central Wisconsin, Next Day Air. I saw the notices on the box, took the case out of the packing box, and let it sit unopened for 48 hours.
When I took the case out of the box, the box was filled with FRIGID air. Yikes.
"A few hours" is NOT enough unless it's going from LA to San Diego. Do NOT open the case. Let the whole thing warm up gradually from the outside in.
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:35 am
by randyz
While I never subject my guitars to sudden temperature changes, I find that Rickenbackers are much less prone to finish checking than other major manufacturers (i.e. Gibson/Epiphone, Gretsch, Hofner, etc). The original finishes on Ricks over 40-years-old are usually in great shape.
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:28 am
by sabbath_of_bass
Paul I was reading my physics book the other day.... And You can freeze boiling water. With a vacuum or something. I got a kick out of that.