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Received this from Tom at COG this morning, and it was too good not to share.

One day they'll realise that a young kid hankering for a Ric, would buy a Ric copy to start with and would dream of a real Ric when he gets better/older/richer. But he can't buy a fake Ric so he buys a Squier P bass, then when he gets better/older/richer....he buys an Am Stnd Fender P bass.....

For sure. In the long run, the only losers in this trade is the Rickenbacker company, not you guys who have done an outstanding job in providing a real hub for the people. Bless you all, keep up the good work.

fender P = Fender J= Ricks=

Here's an indoor pic taken on my phone, which is more how it looks away from direct sunlight. In artificial light it looks even lighter. I'm sure at a gig under stage lights it would look like 'a white bass'. Either way, I'm pleased with the look and even more pleased with the Herrick dual-coil. These basses cost less than £100 from Thomann, but you can appreciate that for the money I've spent overall, I could probably have picked up a very playable and good-looking new or used bass. But I wouldn't know what I now know about pickups, refinishing, how a bass is put together and all those little related bits of random knowledge picked up during the process.

Nonsense. There's a thread discussing Rickenbacker at https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/327793-is-rickenbacker-a-dirty-word/

..and by the magic of a rough hack with Photoshop, we have the full progression: Left to Right: Pete's piccolo bass, my Swift Lite, Jane's Nyhavn Swift and Neil's Swift Lite Bass

The crowdfunding page ended today and I would just like to once again thank each and everyone of you for going beyond the call of duty and making a donation to this fund, I never thought we would raise this much to help against Funkinshui's and my losses after being ripped off by he who shall not be mentioned YET. You have raised a mind blowing grand total of £620 pounds and have restored our faith in humanity, just to mention once again, I was the end of the chain in this fraud and I ended up buying the bass face to face with the fraudster, which was his biggest mistake as the police couldnt link it to him. But seeing as I can id the guy without doubt and we know who he really is he should get whats coming to him. I have requested an update from CID and will let you know whats going on as things progress. I being the end of the chain would of recieved nothing and lost all my money. Thanks to Funkinshui being so genorous and offering to split the loss with me and you guys suggesting we open a crowd funding page, we will loose a lot less than we expected. I cant really put into words how grateful I am for your generosity, Basschat is awesome and the community is like no other I have been part of, I tip my hat to every one of you, thank you all once again

We all know bass: an instrument that is in every kind of actual and older music. But bass guitar is sometimes underrated as an instument. Many people say that they can't listen to it, when maybe they can't recognise it. Bass guitar can be used to create the harmonies of a song, but also to write beatiful melodies and solos. It's the link between the drums and other intruments like guitar, piano, trumpetes... All in all, it's a crutial instrument. I have a YouTube Project 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdzGmH8kV1A4ggge-TquZDg), where I try to demonstrate the importance of bass guitar in music. I make bass solos (covers and original ones), riffs, essential basslines to learn... I share with my audience some songs that have a relevant bassline. I put the bass at the front, so they can apreciate it. I Will be uploading a lot of content, so consider to ubscribe if you like it. RELEVANT VIDEOS: ANESTHESIA PULLING TEETH (Cliff Burton's solo) cover: DAWN PATROL COVER: DAVID ELLEFSON BASS SOLO COVER: ACES HIGH BASS COVER: BASS GUITAR METAL SOLO: If you like music in general or the good sound of a bass guitar, I invite to subscribe to my channel. I'm starting it, so I need a bit of support 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdzGmH8kV1A4ggge-TquZDg?sub_confirmation=1 ). At least visit it, you won't regret.

Girls dance to the bass. Now that's important... 😁

Nice videos Jaime! And a great project. Rest assured you don't need to promote the importance of bass guitar to anyone here. We're all very much onboard with you Might be a good idea to 'infiltrate' some guitar forums and share the love with them too. If anyone needs to understand the importance of bass, it's guitarists...

I've always had a love/hate relationship with Ricks: I'm primarily a guitar player ... so I've never had to live with one on a day to day basis for playing. My experience comes from playing one occasionally, and in spending 40 years repairing instruments and six years rewinding numerous Rick pickups. I adore the look, and the mid range growl and clang, but ergonomically as a player I couldn't use one all the time. The Issue I see over and over again are dead Rick pickups, ones that have mysteriously just stopped working. When I rewound my first Rick bass pickup I discovered the design fault that leads to failure. Dead centre of the image is a sawn off brass screw that is driven through the bobbin and .... The super delicate 44awg wire is soldered directly to that screw ... no insolation, no strain relief. If the screw gets loose ... which the original soldering can make it ... it twists and breaks the wire. The simple fix is a short insulated 'pig tail' that has the core wire soldered to that ... a kink is put in the wire to allow for a bit of movement ... and the whole shooting mach is taped before winding. Problem solved ... but why oh why can't Rickenbacker do something about it themselves?

Ah, I see, and I think we all agree. Things are what they are, though, and get dealt with as best we can. It's a shame, certainly, but the threats were quite real enough to require this action. Never mind; there's plenty of other basses to be drooled over in the marketplace.

Well done chaps! It's great that there's some good feeling coming from such a dire situation. Hope they get their day in court and get what's coming to them. basschat day out anybody?

It's confirmed - delivery to @Len_derby tomorrow evening Here it is with its little brother: My 25" scale (PRS-scale) 6-string electric on the left is 5lbs 14oz; Neil's 34" bass on the right is 6lbs 6oz

My new custom overdrive has arrived. All in all it is two complete Nightfall units, with all controls on each channel, and the possibility to use A or B or cascade A into B. Also switchable via stereo tele jack from my Boss ES8 switcher. Sounds very nice!

Well said there.

+ a lot of numbers So many people seem to spend ages laboriously taking the paint/primer/sealing coat off and then another age trying to cover/fill the woodgrain and prime it to get it back to where it was when they started. Leave the original finish if in good nick, a quick rub with some scotchbrite or Micromesh or the like and you're good to go. I really love that colour BTW, I seem to share your love of cream basses, I paint a colour to be different to all the cream ones and then wish I'd done it cream.

It was a lovely day here so I hobbled out into the garden and decided to do what I could with bits on my knee, which wasn't much but still it all helps. I finish sanded the faces of both headstocks and sprayed them with nitro sanding sealer from a rattle can, I couldn't have got my spray gear out to save my life but that is fine. After a couple of coats I glued the fret boards on. Finally I pulled the tape off the second body and scraped the top of the bindings flush. I have already fully scraped the first but I couldn't do the second as I would need to have the body secured in a vice and that means standing and I can't do that., That's me now until after the weekend I suspect, we're off out on Friday until Saturday so maybe Sunday depending on how I feel

How very dare you... 😁

@discreet - now known as “Big Funk in Japan”

Just noticed I had 200 plays of the audio clip in two days... all in Japan..?? Maybe someone had too much Sake and fell asleep on the 'repeat' button..?

This is quite simply, the most important part of bass playing.

It’s the drums that make you tap your feet, the bass that makes you swing your hips. To my knowledge it’s only Penguins that tap their feet as a come-on.

If price is an issue while you're trying strings out, you'll find the D'Addarios £10-15 cheaper than the DRs...

I've just moved the Oil City pickup into my surf green partscaster.. and it sure looks purty!

Glad that it has been sorted out, even if it had been fixed the trust and shineyness has already gone. Took me a bit of a while after the strap button screw sheared off on mine before I was happy again (which I now am)

Awesome thanks mcnach. Adrian has looked at the luminlays again today and agreed they aren't right. He has now resolved the issue for me for which I'm very grateful. Thanks again all.

It's obvious the boy's very talented. But also quite staid, despite wishing to appear the opposite. He's trying very hard to be different, but only manages to be a tiny bit different. His piano playing, while very good, is not in the same league as other precocious talents such as Hiromi Uehara either in melody, rhythm or inventiveness. Did anybody say Bobby Crush? 😁 Still, I'd much rather him than much wetter dinner jazz, or The Smiths!

I suggest 'Le Monde' as the paper, together a red carnation buttonhole. The code phrase is, "the wind seems to blow colder with each passing autumn".

If we're going the gif route:

Can only echo Stephens message. Great group of people on here. Thank you so much.

The should have had all tuners on one side, and had a massive droopy Jackson headstock.

His UK bass player is none to shabby either @mybass 😎

Yeah yeah... I know... I know.... By simple, I mean not requiring nasa-level mechanical fabrication. I may do a ‘bucker build and then see if I can get an odd unique neck pickup made to go with it

Make your own Rikenfaker but one that sounds good.

My first serious bass (after an Encore Coaster to get me started) - £800 for a 1975 4001, mapleglo with black trim - gorgeous - back in about 88/89 I think. Spent the next few years replacing all the bits that the previous owner had changed to be non-Rickenbacker (mainly bridge/tailpiece and pickups), and it's needed a couple of re-wirings, but it still looks great, and sounds exactly as it should, Plus a fantastic slim, fast neck. Back in the day Rickenbacker had a UK office who were brilliantly helpful, and couldn't be further from the reputation they have now. Was my main (sometimes only) bass for most of my 20's, but barely used since I discovered five strings and there was no going back. I have kept a lazy eye on one of the rare as hens teeth 4003 five strings coming up for sale, but they go quickly and expensively so had resigned myself to never getting one...until... https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2018/02/04/rickenbacker-unveils-the-2018-4003s-5-5-string-bass/ Much to complain about - 4003s so no shark fins or binding, and the pickups looks, ahem, interesting, plus no tailpiece so the looks are all over the place...but it's close to what I'd like and I'd love to give one a go and see what it plays/sounds like.

Amazing, handsome looking bass with fantastic sound a job WELL DONE! Just to confirm the pickup model you used was the "Franken-Tele bass Twin coil 11K Ohm" correct? What magnets & footwork did you specify?

Yeah, I also have a cover of a Dave Ellefson solo. It's me. Thank you for your comment. I'll be uploading more todo my channel.

This wiki about Nicky Wire mention a Fender Jazz with a custom third pickup (under Musical Equipment) - https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Nicky_Wire The old Clover Avenger had three Delano jazz style pickups, I've always fancied one of these (the new model has two soapbars).

I suppose it's the same colour like those on my beloved 1993 Arpège III fretless 😍 - where it's called "Antique violin" (I guess)