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just_bassics wrote:Tony! I - KNOW - WHERE - YOU - LIVE!!!
No offense intended and with all due respect to Chris. I have read that too and am doubtful. If his bass had really lost that much weight in wood one would expect that the jack plate would no longer fit correctly. It should be protruding well past the top and/or back of the bass. Also, the bridge does not allow for that much variation in the distance between the body-face and the fingerboard.Becky wrote:In an interview with Bassist magazine in January 1997 (heralding the Keys to Ascension albums), Chris said of his bass:woodyng wrote:i like to think that what chris was going for when he had his rm painted that color was something that resembled an "antiqued" white,like an older jazz bass. . .Mine was originally [Fireglo] and that's one of the reasons why it ended up sounding the way it did, because when I was in The Syn, I put this flowery contact stuff all over it. When all that finished I went to see Sam Lee, a famous guitar repairer and he peeled that off and rubbed the wood down to get it nice again, but the Fireglo had gone, so he painted it cream. Then I stuck silver paper all over it, and a rubber edge round it - went through that period - then took it to Sam again. By now the bass guitar was only three-quarters of the weight it was when it started off. That was prior to me using it on "Roundabout", so maybe that's why it sounded so different from every other Rickenbacker bass, because it had been messed about, then planed down and revarnished so many times.
Don't forget that the horseshoe pickup would be protruding from the back of the body, too!rickfan60 wrote:No offense intended and with all due respect to Chris. I have read that too and am doubtful. If his bass had really lost that much weight in wood one would expect that the jack plate would no longer fit correctly. It should be protruding well past the top and/or back of the bass. Also, the bridge does not allow for that much variation in the distance between the body-face and the fingerboard.
Then there is the question of the true origin of Rick-O-Sound.
Ain't it though!!!!rickfan60 wrote:Maybe that is why his action is so high.
It's shaved down a lot beyond any you could imagine, Ted. The action at the 14th fret was enough to drive a...rickfan60 wrote:The neck is probably similar to the one on my '63. They are really thin from that era. I suppose his could be shaved down from the original shape. Maybe that is why his action is so high.
If by "failed" you mean "developed cracks", then, no, it hasn't. If, however, you mean, "developed a noticeable curve", then it failed to the point where it was sent into RIC earlier this year for some work.rickfan60 wrote:Has the neck failed or does he like it that way?
I think the weight loss might have been more subjective than objective, and the majority of the material removed would have to be on the body - I'd've thought that Mr Squire was too much of a musician to stick flowery paper all over the back of the neck too! My 4003 is not that heavy a bass and to lose a quarter of its weight it'd be under seven pounds now. In my purely subjective appraisal, I'd say that would be on the skinny side.rickfan60 wrote:If his bass had really lost that much weight in wood one would expect that the jack plate would no longer fit correctly. It should be protruding well past the top and/or back of the bass. Also, the bridge does not allow for that much variation in the distance between the body-face and the fingerboard.
