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Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 6:42 pm
by callofcthulhu
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:51 am
by AndyM
good stuff. to be up front but play with your head down constantly is weird to me. this band is good but that is something I expect from a beginner player.
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:13 am
by bassduke49
Welcome Tom. Is that a converted four-string to five? Thanks for posting the links to the videos!
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:41 pm
by edski
Great tunes - The bass looks like it is a 5'er, with the three tuning pegs on the top of the headstock. Most 4-5 conversions put the extra peg on the bottom. I certainly could be wrong
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:25 pm
by bassduke49
The shape of the headstock is the same as the standard four though. I think someone did a dowel plug, redrill on the big-string side. Wonder if he will respond . . . .
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:07 pm
by edski
bassduke49 wrote:The shape of the headstock is the same as the standard four though. I think someone did a dowel plug, redrill on the big-string side.
Well, I will have to defer to your knowledge...after all, you wrote "The Book"
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:16 pm
by bassduke49
Also, the stock 4003S/5 doesn't have binding or the shark-fin position markers. Being an S model, it has no binding and dots. I'm so used to seeing regular 4003 basses, that I hadn't even noticed that. It was the shape of the headstock and the position of the tuners that I first noticed.
Re: Rick porn in the wild
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:21 pm
by callofcthulhu
AndyM wrote:good stuff. to be up front but play with your head down constantly is weird to me. this band is good but that is something I expect from a beginner player.
Yeah, I'm usually in the back - that van is ridiculously small though, so my cartoonishly large pedal board got me stuck in front. I consider the Rick to be in the spotlight, rather than myself.
bassduke49 wrote:The shape of the headstock is the same as the standard four though. I think someone did a dowel plug, redrill on the big-string side. Wonder if he will respond . . . .
You are correct, sir. The initial conversion was done by Paul W.
Since the initial chop-job I've had a bit more work done on it - replaced the neck PU with a Dane Wilder HB-1 push/pull split, the bridge PU with a Classic Amplification hi-gain, and the mute pad with a DiMarzio Fast Track - all of which was done by Gary Brawer's in SF.
Future possible mods may include moving the strap pins around, a brass nut, and getting a custom wound pickup for the mute cavity to replace the Fast Track (which actually paired VERY well with the original hi-gain, but not as well with the Classic Amp pup).
Cheers.