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The HE-MAN way to fix a bass....
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:01 pm
by ajish4
Hey Paul,
You gotta love this.
How is this for a UNIQUE way to fix a cracked bass!
None of this taking weeks preparing, filling, sanding, blending, painting, clear coating, waxing, wet sanding, just cut to the chase and take a huge freaking screw and shoot it in!
Not to mention that REALLY NEAT metal plate that looks like half of a stress relief for a hunk of wiring...LOVELY!
In all fairness, the seller states that he didn't "REPAIR" it himself!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150097051850&rd=1&rd=1
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:12 pm
by charlyg
"You might be a redneck if..........
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:27 pm
by elysrand
101 uses for spare drywall screws around the house....
Hey, on a useful note, this one makes me opine upon whether anyone had ever made a bass entirely out of machined aluminum.
Dimensional tolerances would be great. But you could never straighten out a bent one properly. Wonder what the sound would be like>
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:58 am
by thisismusicinc
Electrical Guitar makes all aluminium guitars and basses.
http://electricalguitarcompany.com/
I have only tried the guitar, but it sounds very nice. I wouldn't mind if someone gave me one of the basses, but I need to get another 4003 or two before I'll consider buying one.
Jon
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:42 am
by kcole4001
That 'repair' may be a little unstable, I recommend a couple of 1/2" carriage bolts and steel plates as reinforcement!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:15 am
by jingle_jangle
...and when they poke through the front of the bass, just grind 'em off...
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:06 am
by beatlefreak
What?! No duct tape?!
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:27 am
by kcole4001
"...and when they poke through the front of the bass, just grind 'em off..."
Yup, use a Dewalt angle grinder, and do the grinding on stage preferably, in the middle of a ballad!
"Yee haw! Take that, ya varmint!"
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:50 am
by elysrand
Red Green woulda used duct tape...
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:50 am
by elysrand
And ONLY because you can't weld wood
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:07 pm
by jingle_jangle
You can't?
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:52 pm
by elysrand
BALDerdash, Paul!!! That's not a REAL Rickenwelder, that's a FAKER. Maybe a Kay weld, or an Aria weld..
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:02 pm
by jingle_jangle
Yeah, BUSTED, Elys. I'd never use that stuff on any Rickenbacker.
(That's all that Google had for "rickweld"--a guy named Rick welding a locomotive!)
Re: The HE-MAN way to fix a bass....
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:07 am
by rickenmetal
I wonder if he ever played it sitting down. If he did that screw would have probably made interesting patterns on his pants (and leg).