Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

now aint that nifty

Ooh, looks like a great project!

cjj wrote:Ooh, looks like a great project!

+1!

rickaddict wrote:

simer4001 wrote:The newest addition.

That's beautiful, Brian. So, did PW do a yellowed varnish re-fin on it?

BTW...I don't think Macca's Rick ever had the "Made in the USA" sticker on the pick guard!

Yes. Paul ambered the finish. And you are right about the Made in the USA Sticker. At the very least by the time it got to Red Rose Speedway it would have been long gone. This being, no less, the 3rd time the basss had been modified.

cassius987 wrote: Eventually it will either sport three Toasters (currently own two), or possibly something else. I would really like humcanceling or RWRP, but I don't want HB-1s in this guy. Maybe Bartolini pickups for Ric basses as I have liked the way those sounded in the past. I don't have the same confidence in the Seymour Duncan stuff.

I like the three toasters idea aesthetically. And I'd love to hear what the one in the middle would sound like.

simer4001 wrote:The newest addition.

I love it, Brian!

cjj wrote:Ooh, looks like a great project!

+2

johnallg wrote:

cassius987 wrote:Eventually it will either sport three Toasters (currently own two), or possibly something else.

Do you have a newer higain that could be unwound and magnets put into?

Yeah I do. Does it have shallow indents/slots for alnico slugs like a Toaster would have?

cassius987 wrote:

johnallg wrote:

cassius987 wrote:Eventually it will either sport three Toasters (currently own two), or possibly something else.

Do you have a newer higain that could be unwound and magnets put into?

Yeah I do. Does it have shallow indents/slots for alnico slugs like a Toaster would have?

Josh, you carefully cut the magnet off the bottom, remove the 6 poles (nails or hex screws), chase the holes with a 1/4" drill bit, then put in 1/4" x 1/2" alnico5 rods. Unwinding to 7.4 would be optional - depends on what you want and if the other two toasters are the 7.4k ones.

I see--unfortunately this is a bass Hi-Gain. Will it still have 6 holes?

I guess a 4-slug alnico "Frankentoaster" might be interesting.

cassius987 wrote:I see--unfortunately this is a bass Hi-Gain. Will it still have 6 holes?

I guess a 4-slug alnico "Frankentoaster" might be interesting.

Just 4.

I can't believe I found these pictures. I've been looking them for a LONG time....sometimes, I get lucky!

THIS is what I wanted to have made YEARS ago...I believe this was a 365 Guitar converted to a bass.

It was on Ebay YEARS ago. I found this after giving up on the idea of a 360 Conversion due to the cost involved.

I'd STILL love to try this one of these days, but the correct way.. C'mon Lotto!

Ooh, NICE! Now that's something I could get caught up in...

Not perfectly thought-out, but an intriguing notion. I could dig it.