Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:19 pm
Exactly! Why go anywhere else?johnallg wrote:Sepp, you could spend the two hours at POTR but it might turn out expensive for you.
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Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:51 pm
+2!ken_j wrote:Exactly! Why go anywhere else?johnallg wrote:Sepp, you could spend the two hours at POTR but it might turn out expensive for you.
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:08 pm
I'd ask if you could stay and watch the procedure.
Just don't ask to help as that might make it cost WAY more...
Just don't ask to help as that might make it cost WAY more...
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:28 pm
Guys, may be an expensive 2 hours if I stay at POTR?? Come on, I've been here on the forum since June and you haven't yet realized I have very little self control?? It may very well be the most expensive 2 hours of my entire life!! I risk my financial health just being a member here!! I came here with a 2011 4003 in Jetglow and I've managed to add two more Ricks!!
I still have visions of Paul's "Snow White" dancing in my head!!!
You guys are a bunch of enablers!!!
Sepp
I still have visions of Paul's "Snow White" dancing in my head!!!
You guys are a bunch of enablers!!!
Sepp
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:30 pm
yeah that's part of our charm....
you could also sweep the floor, cut the grass... buy another bass.... put finger prints, drool and nose prints all over the counter tops... while waiting.
you could also sweep the floor, cut the grass... buy another bass.... put finger prints, drool and nose prints all over the counter tops... while waiting.
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:37 pm
Kopfjaeger wrote:I came here with a 2011 4003 in Jetglow and I've managed to add two more Ricks!!
I still have visions of Paul's "Snow White" dancing in my head!!!
You guys are a bunch of enablers!!!
Sepp
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:53 pm
Getting others to, um, indulge, justifies our own excesses. I only have two hands (not very talented) and have 6 Ricks and 3 other basses and am contemplating an Epi Thunderbird Pro.Kopfjaeger wrote:Guys, may be an expensive 2 hours if I stay at POTR?? Come on, I've been here on the forum since June and you haven't yet realized I have very little self control?? It may very well be the most expensive 2 hours of my entire life!! I risk my financial health just being a member here!! I came here with a 2011 4003 in Jetglow and I've managed to add two more Ricks!!
I still have visions of Paul's "Snow White" dancing in my head!!!
You guys are a bunch of enablers!!!
Sepp
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:53 pm
ram wrote:yeah that's part of our charm....
LikeRe: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:21 pm
Kopfjaeger wrote:I still have visions of Paul's "Snow White" dancing in my head!!!
:shock:Your eyes are closing veeerrrrrrryyyy ssssslllloooowwwllllyyy. Your wallet feels sooooo hhhheeaavvyy
Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:23 pm
Love it !!! I don't know what I'm enjoying more ---- Sepp's admission or the witty retorts from "The Enablers"Kopfjaeger wrote: I risk my financial health just being a member here!!
You guys are a bunch of enablers!!!
Sepp
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:10 pm
Paul,
Wonderful foto of "Snow White". I'm still mulling it over, half hoping that some one else pulls the trigger to end the endless debate going on in my head!!
Update on the 73 nut replacement. I dropped my 1973 4001 off this morning to a local luthier that builds guitars. After a short inspection he showed my what looked like a shoddy piece together of the nut on the bass. It appears that the nut was broken even with the fretboard and someone pieced a "new" top portion onto the broken piece. The E side of the nut appears to still be attached to the bottom section since there is a slight overhang/ridge where the "new" nut section was pieced in. He is perplexed and I'm ****** I did not notice it before he pointed it out. He also had no corian pieces high enough so he has to craft one out of a hunk of virgin corian then cut the string slots.
He'll have it done sometime next week. My wall looks very empty with out her.
I made sure I played the **** out of her last night and this morning and damn, I need to play her more. None of the Ricks I own sound like her or are as easy to play!!
Sepp
Wonderful foto of "Snow White". I'm still mulling it over, half hoping that some one else pulls the trigger to end the endless debate going on in my head!!
Update on the 73 nut replacement. I dropped my 1973 4001 off this morning to a local luthier that builds guitars. After a short inspection he showed my what looked like a shoddy piece together of the nut on the bass. It appears that the nut was broken even with the fretboard and someone pieced a "new" top portion onto the broken piece. The E side of the nut appears to still be attached to the bottom section since there is a slight overhang/ridge where the "new" nut section was pieced in. He is perplexed and I'm ****** I did not notice it before he pointed it out. He also had no corian pieces high enough so he has to craft one out of a hunk of virgin corian then cut the string slots.
He'll have it done sometime next week. My wall looks very empty with out her.
I made sure I played the **** out of her last night and this morning and damn, I need to play her more. None of the Ricks I own sound like her or are as easy to play!!Sepp
Re: Nut replacement 4003
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:13 am
Kopfjaeger wrote: He also had no corian pieces high enough so he has to craft one out of a hunk of virgin corian then cut the string slots.
Yep. "Standard" nut blanks (i.e. Fender-ready) are not nearly tall enough. I have also used the Graphtech Tusq XL 1/4" Blank Nut Slab.