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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:56 am
by rickcrazy
July 1961 wife, here.
Okay, now that we've cleared that
, here's my November '70 21 fretter again, Elys...
Sorry...
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:43 am
by teeder
Sergio,
November '70 is close enough to my wife's late Sept '70 birthday! Does that mean I win!
I'd love to see that maple in person! Looks nice!
Kevin
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:59 am
by charlyg
1951 vintage here!
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:10 am
by elysrand
Sérgio, it plucks my heart strings in the most harsh and painful fashion to see this bass, this sweet lady, laid out like this, yearning for my gentle touch, speaking to me across the vast Atlantic Ocean, sweet sweet torture. I count the days, the hours, the minutes, until she is mine.......
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:15 am
by elysrand
Since I married someone much younger than myself, I must honestly admit to a Sept 1969 model wife.
But Sérgio, now I have found my true love, my future betrothed, and she is a November 1970
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:28 am
by rickcrazy
Uh-oh! It's love - I can tell!
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:38 pm
by markbass99
Is having a 21 fretter the same has having an amp that goes to eleven? It's one more in'it....
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:42 pm
by kcole4001
Who needs 21 frets, anyway? You guys never learned to bend strings?
Seriously, that's a real beauty, Sergio!
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:08 pm
by jps
"my fiancee was born in July of 1973"
Funny, so was this:
I have a Dec '60 model!
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:30 pm
by markbass99
I'd love to find a July with checkered binding, if I recall that's the one with the hipshot tuners.(I think).
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:51 pm
by markbass99
Here's the July 73 I was originally referring to. Here she is being very British and hoisting her pint(she's from Lancashire). I think I've talked her into leaving that nice weather over there and staying in Florida for a while.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:25 pm
by jps
Nice FG she is wearing, too!
Yep, Hipshot tuners.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:30 pm
by heinpete
Jeff: That's a nice bass! How do the hipshot light tuners look from behind? I thought of replacing the Grovers on my "sister", but they work amazingly well, at least better than the 1975 onwards used Schaller BMC chrome open back machine heads. However the new 4003 tuners(about 1994 onwards) with Ric engraved base plate have an additional spring washer in them that makes them now work perfect.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:48 am
by markbass99
Here's what they look like on a five string conversion, they are one of the best tuners and the lightest.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:56 am
by rickcrazy
Hey! That's an expertly done modification to be sure. Too bad I'm not fond of 5 stringers, otherwise that's how I'd mod a 4 string Rick. Nice.