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Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:53 am
by wints
Zdenek,
Great to finally see you here. The bass does look quite wonderful. You know I like white...
Lovely attention to detail, especially with the headstock. Now, what does she sound like?
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:41 pm
by harleybacker
wints wrote:Zdenek,
Great to finally see you here. The bass does look quite wonderful. You know I like white...
Lovely attention to detail, especially with the headstock. Now, what does she sound like?
Hi Andy,
Thank You. I remember one Your sentence: Chris Squire models are Rickenbackers on the steroids.
Thanks Kent Armstrong electronic I can say: Harleybacker is CS bass on the steroids
But this competition is not fair. CS basses stay on the top of passive passive electronic, Harleybacker is simply different way, with all the positives and all the negatives, what active circuits bring. Kent Armstrong is clever man, he taylored the bass frequency on 80 Hz, so I can get the firm and fat bottom from this instrument.
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:45 pm
by sloop_john_b
Cool! I wanted to do checkered binding on the headstock of my v68 - wish I had now!
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:44 pm
by ram
This one could be paird with Walker's JG for a ying/yang type effect...
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59082&p=402308&hili ... me#p402308
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:14 pm
by rickcrazy
Hey Zdenek! How's it going? Yes, I'm still around hehe
Not much time to hang around here, but that's another story
That's one uniquely beautiful Rick bass! I love it!
I'll return again soon.
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:09 am
by harleybacker
rickcrazy wrote:Hey Zdenek! How's it going? Yes, I'm still around hehe
Not much time to hang around here, but that's another story
That's one uniquely beautiful Rick bass! I love it!
I'll return again soon.
Hi Sergio
Than You! You can see...I´m always thinking about some improvements of Rickenbacker basses
.
I used on Harleybacker one idea from our great "Red Instigator" project. Color of pick up is in accordance with the color of the body.
Enlightment for RRF members: Red Instigator is not secret agent
, it is a special
Instigator pick up from Sérgio, where I designed some new shape and look, milling the oval hole in original PU cover and painting the PU in silver/
Red combination. Better to see:
Before:
Red Instigator:
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:28 am
by harleybacker
Bingo!
Mark Walker helped me a lot with my Harleybacker. He did many magics with his Photoshop and we tried some combination, like White/White, White/Gold White /Silver, etc... etc...
BTW: With the certain of Mark bass we can create more interesting pair
I want to say again: Thank You Mark,thank You Andy and thank You Sérgio for the inspiration and for the help!
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:23 pm
by grazioso
hm zdenek vseticka? a kde ze to sidli pan vseticka?
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:34 pm
by jingle_jangle
She did what? With what?
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:17 pm
by jps
Trust me, you don't want to know.
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:51 am
by harleybacker
grazioso wrote:hm zdenek vseticka? a kde ze to sidli pan vseticka?
I´m living in Starhill town.
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:01 am
by grazioso
san mateo county?
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:18 am
by harleybacker
grazioso wrote:san mateo county?
Moravia
Translate Starhill to german and say it aloud with Czech accent...
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:00 am
by jps
harleybacker wrote:grazioso wrote:san mateo county?
Moravia
Translate Starhill to german and say it aloud with Czech accent...
it sure does take a lot of chutzpah to say it like that, though!
Re: Harleybacker
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:01 pm
by walker
HEY, Zden! Great to see that you've finally been assimilated - er, ah...
joined The Forum.
Looking forward to your future posts. I know you have much to offer with your insights and experience with Ricks - straight, or on steroids. That White Harley ROCKS! Love the checked headstock binding. I've got some vintage style knobs I can paint up for you so you've got white w/ black notches. Look for it soon at a customs agent near you.
Just to add my 2 cents to the HS gap topic, my '68 mags are definitely wider gapped than my '64s. Here are the two mags side-by-side:
left: '68, right: '64
1968 4001
1964 RM 1999
The bobbins used in 1967-68 were significantly taller than the prior versions used from the late 50's into 1966-67, so to compensate for the limited space between the poles & magnets, the gap had to be spread. The taller bobbins as seen in the last versions of the 4001 horseshoe pickups were what became the first "high gain" pickups which were used from '69-'71ish when the horsehoes were discontinued and replaced by the small compressed magnets that sit under the bobbin.
Enyhu, again ~ welcome to The Forum, Zdenek!