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Hey,

My Father-in-Law is a Blacksmith......I can get ALL the Horseshoes I want!

Scott's pic looks cool but almost unplayable. Definitely not a slap bass

Huh... What is it about HS pickups?...

s4001 wrote:I'll start taking orders at the next RRF confluence.

Actually, as the covers are cosmetic, you could do this if you took them off.......

gareth wrote:

s4001 wrote:I'll start taking orders at the next RRF confluence.

Actually, as the covers are cosmetic, you could do this if you took them off.......

I thought the horseshoes were magnetic? Or was that just the originals back in the 60s and before? Either way, they wouldn't be horseshoes without the horse shoe part, right?

paologregorio wrote:

gareth wrote:

s4001 wrote:I'll start taking orders at the next RRF confluence.

Actually, as the covers are cosmetic, you could do this if you took them off.......

I thought the horseshoes were magnetic? Or was that just the originals back in the 60s and before? Either way, they wouldn't be horseshoes without the horse shoe part, right?

As I understand it, the original horseshoes were magnetic, the reissues are not. In either case, I don't think you can just remove the covers as they are kinda permanently mounted, and, it wouldn't be a horseshoe anymore...

I thought even the new HS covers become magnetized over time.

jdogric12aolcom wrote:Horseshoe this, horseshoe that, blah blah blah, yawn.

Anybody ever put two horseshoes in a bass? That might be neat, huh?

Yawn??!! Yet you want to know??

Seeing I have an extra magnet-shoe'd pup laying around, maybe I should pull out the router for the V63.....

VRICKY63 wrote:I thought even the new HS covers become magnetized over time.

Doesn't happen - trust me.

cjj wrote: In either case, I don't think you can just remove the covers as they are kinda permanently mounted, and, it wouldn't be a horseshoe anymore...

Actually...they aren't permanently mounted. It's just a matter of turning 4 screws and putting a few washers between the back plate and the pickup to fill the space formerly occupied by the (cosmetic only) horseshoes. Makes the bass lighter, easier to play, and better looking.

http://rickresource.com/register/user_i ... llsize.jpg

(Click on the above link for an example)

s4001 wrote:I'll start taking orders at the next RRF confluence.

Thanks for the photoshopping, Scott. That bass is comical!

I would hate to think of what would happen to the neck integrity if you routered for a HS near the neck.

How about two horseshoes on a 4005? Discuss.

What IS all this nonense about "two Horseshoes" on a bass?

Just the one has always been quite enough for me...

That is the ULTIMATE Rick bass, Ken!