Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

jdogric12 wrote:Play it as is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1

jps wrote:If it is only a tiny bit, maybe you can get the tailpiece to extend a bit closer to the neck.

That should be do-able; it's just a matter of loosening or replacing the cable that goes through the tailpiece and around the endpin. Generally these are kept in place by a small screw clamp (for lack of a better term) that secures both ends of the cable. Adding a bit of slack to the cable will allow the tailpiece to rest a bit closer to the fingerboard. Of course, you don't want to go too far or you'll decrease the break angle over the bridge which might lead to too low of a tension to keep the soundpost firmly in place. If it's just a couple of mm, it should be fine.

I thought the marching band cello bit was from Bananas?

*googled it*

nope i was wrong! d'oh!

i used to own a tacoma thunderchief bass strung with TI acousticore strings,and if that bass had been fretless,i think it would have been hard to tell it from an upright tone. the fretted version i had with those strings was a bit too clacky,but i think the tacoma was one of the better sounding abg's i ever picked up.

I think I'm gonna put some Roto roundwounds on it, and a drop D tuner...then I should be set

Actually I found out I had the bridge in the wrong place, plus I believe it was backwards. Just toying around with it. Maybe, just maybe if I can do some basic Blues jamming on it, I'll keep it as is. Still believe the project is possible though.

jdogric12 wrote:*googled it*

nope i was wrong! d'oh!

For that, you get a nice, hot bowl of steam for breakfast!

marc61 wrote:I think I'm gonna put some Roto roundwounds on it, and a drop D tuner...then I should be set

I have the perfect pickup for you to put on it!

hmmmm...maybe they have a reissue model

I found a photo of Marc from when he lived south of the border!

Not me.That's my brother Marco