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Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:15 am
by goofyfoot
The title of this thread is self-explanatory. Get Toasters® for your 6- and 12-strings while they're available. Don't forget your treble pickup cover, cover screws, nuts, mounting screws, and rubber grommets, too. Peace, out....Goofyfoot.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:46 pm
by ben_brown
What's up with Rickenbacker.com? I try to go there and it asks me for a network username and password...WTF!
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:55 pm
by iamthebassman
My bass toasters have 6 poles, what's the diff, why couldn't you use one of those on a bass?
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:04 pm
by sloop_john_b
iamthebassman wrote:My bass toasters have 6 poles, what's the diff, why couldn't you use one of those on a bass?
The toasters are the same, the mounting screws are different.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:04 pm
by doctorwho
ben_brown wrote:What's up with Rickenbacker.com? I try to go there and it asks me for a network username and password...WTF!
I had no problem just now ... looks like whatever was awry was fixed.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:01 pm
by ben_brown
Strange...it works now.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:12 pm
by ben_brown
Yes the Toaster mounting plates....the only difference is the threaded mounting holes for the bass as apposed to the larger screw holes that guitar mounting requires. I took the liberty of making a few on the CNC at work over the holidays. I won't be running out any time soon!
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:17 am
by grazioso
would you help out? i need a pair for 450.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:53 am
by ben_brown
A pair of what? Guitar or bass toaster mounting plates?
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:24 am
by johnallg
Steve, looks like the 450 pickups mount like a basses do.
http://www.rocknrollvintage.com/proddet ... 1964ric450
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:55 am
by ben_brown
Sure looks that way doesn't it
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:02 am
by grazioso
yes pair of plates is the thing, and yes they will work just the same on 450.
thanks
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:34 pm
by gareth
goofyfoot wrote:The title of this thread is self-explanatory. Get Toasters® for your 6- and 12-strings while they're available. Don't forget your treble pickup cover, cover screws, nuts, mounting screws, and rubber grommets, too. Peace, out....Goofyfoot.
I got one for the bass in December. It was bad right out of the box, with a short in the wiring. Paul W sorted it out for me though, bless him.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:01 pm
by rickaddict
I had a brand new one short out too, but its easy to sort out. As I remember it one of the leads on the new toasters is exposed and runs very close to something that can short it out. (I'm obviously not an electrician!) But its easy to see what is going wrong. I just un-soldered the lead, put some shrink tube over the short-prone area and re-soldered. Problem gone forever.
Re: Ric Boutique Has Toasters® For Guitars Now (Not Basses)
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:05 pm
by johnallg
The shield can touch the solder point for the + coil output thus shorting the coil. Jeff's solution is easy and elegant.