Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:07 am
Congrats, Sergio!
Nice score!
Congratulations!
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Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:29 am
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:55 am
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! Nice bass!!!! Whatta score!!!!!! 
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:52 pm
Sweet looking bass!!! Congratulations Sergio!!!
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:31 am
I am a huge Mapleglo fan and that has to be about as good of a MG score as there can be....love it!
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 2:00 am
Had to use my hand to close my Jaw. Simply amazing score!
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:23 am
Thank you for your words of praise, gentlemen, I truly appreciate them! 
Actually the 21 fretter at issue came with a small number of not-too-serious issues, all of which have been successfully and swiftly addressed. Not by yours truly however.
Namely: the fingerboard was starting to separate from the neck at the nut; the nut itself was loose; the action was too high and couldn't be lowered as someone had fitted a bunch of washers over the two screws holding the treble pickup to its baseplate, thereby rendering downward movement of the whole assembly impossible; the intonation was out and couldn't be set right as the bridge/tailpiece assembly was at the wrong location - way too near the body edge; and, the A tuner was about to come apart.
Now that every single one of those problems is history, the bass plays like a dream: ultra-low action, dead straight neck, killer tone (although I certainly could use a little more output from BOTH pickups), and great looks!
It sports a treble pickup surround with pointed, not rounded corners. What's the story with that? I vaguely remember reading something on the subject elsewhere many years back.
Actually the 21 fretter at issue came with a small number of not-too-serious issues, all of which have been successfully and swiftly addressed. Not by yours truly however.
Namely: the fingerboard was starting to separate from the neck at the nut; the nut itself was loose; the action was too high and couldn't be lowered as someone had fitted a bunch of washers over the two screws holding the treble pickup to its baseplate, thereby rendering downward movement of the whole assembly impossible; the intonation was out and couldn't be set right as the bridge/tailpiece assembly was at the wrong location - way too near the body edge; and, the A tuner was about to come apart.
Now that every single one of those problems is history, the bass plays like a dream: ultra-low action, dead straight neck, killer tone (although I certainly could use a little more output from BOTH pickups), and great looks!
It sports a treble pickup surround with pointed, not rounded corners. What's the story with that? I vaguely remember reading something on the subject elsewhere many years back.
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:07 pm
We have special basses, Sérgio!rickcrazy wrote:It sports a treble pickup surround with pointed, not rounded corners. What's the story with that?
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:33 pm
Very nice, Sergio! Congrats and enjoy!
Re: Rickcrazy's big score
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:56 am
Thank you kindly, Joey! This one's a looker, a player, and a keeper for sure.