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The 19th Dot?
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:41 pm
by teeder
Ok, I was playing the 4000 over the weekend and I got to wondering; when did Rick start putting the 19th position marker dots on the "S" basses?
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:10 pm
by chefothefuture
From the 4000's I've seen, it likes like the 19th fret dot started
around 71 or early 72.
Around the same time the Shedua strip started.
Funny-
I had one of the first v63's off the line and it had a 19th fret dot.
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:33 pm
by bassduke49
I have a '97 Fireglo V63 with the 19th fret dot. My theory is that assembler just grabbed a fretboard from from the "wrong" (S) pile:
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:03 pm
by bottom4
chefothefuture wrote:
Funny-
I had one of the first v63's off the line and it had a 19th fret dot.
My early ’85 V doesn’t have a 19th
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:48 am
by ricosound
bassduke49 wrote:... from the "wrong" (S) pile:
Are you calling Ricks a pile of S?
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:59 am
by teeder
From the 4000's I've seen, it likes like the 19th fret dot started
around 71 or early 72.
Around the same time the Shedua strip started.
Hmm, that could be. I haven't seen many early 4000's.
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:06 pm
by johnallg
ricosound wrote:bassduke49 wrote:... from the "wrong" (S) pile:
Are you calling Ricks a pile of S?
The pile of "S" boards would have no binding and only dots.....
Re: The 19th Dot?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:17 pm
by antipodean
chefothefuture wrote:From the 4000's I've seen, it likes like the 19th fret dot started
around 71 or early 72.
Around the same time the Shedua strip started.
That would line up with going from neck-through to set-neck.