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ilan wrote:Cool bass, congrats!

godber wrote: The pickguard damage came from a bottle thrown at Reading festival, which also knocked out the bridge pickup - hence the Seymour Duncan replacement and the reverse mounted plate.

I assume that is what he says, but honestly, I can't see how a bottle can cause that damage, let alone skip aside and knock out the treble pickup. A less heroic, but more reasonable explanation would be that the toaster height adjustment screw was over-tightened and cracked the pickguard in the same exact place as hundreds of other Ric basses, and the bridge pickup was replaced - like hundreds of others - because it was too thin-sounding, and the owner did not know that all it took to solve it was to bypass the evil cap.

godber wrote:

ilan wrote:Cool bass, congrats!

godber wrote: The pickguard damage came from a bottle thrown at Reading festival, which also knocked out the bridge pickup - hence the Seymour Duncan replacement and the reverse mounted plate.

I assume that is what he says, but honestly, I can't see how a bottle can cause that damage, let alone skip aside and knock out the treble pickup. A less heroic, but more reasonable explanation would be that the toaster height adjustment screw was over-tightened and cracked the pickguard in the same exact place as hundreds of other Ric basses, and the bridge pickup was replaced - like hundreds of others - because it was too thin-sounding, and the owner did not know that all it took to solve it was to bypass the evil cap.

C'mon, I wasn't there, but what is rock and roll without a little raconteuring and amps that go to 11?

Well then, there should have been a groupie involved in the story, too.

teeder wrote:

Well then, there should have been a groupie involved in the story, too.

Only one?

jps wrote: Well then, there should have been a groupie involved in the story, too.