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Think that's what sticks in the fella's craw. For 60 year they didn't think there was a need. Now it's "Great idea,we'll be having that.Best use the same name too. Aw let's really shaft him and sell ours half price."

Copy/paste from Rick Resource. Re: RIC-Made Treble PUP Bezels Available! by (sunsetjunk) » Thu May 02, 2019 1:29 pm @Ilan No, I wasn't contacted by Rickenbacker regarding the use of my "Treble Bezel" name or my designs. This is more a moral than legal issue in this situation. I have been making the original Treble Bezel since 2010. First 2 years were CNC machined and Soft touch top coated until I could save up enough money to invest in injection mold tooling. From 2012 to present they have been injection molded. My bezels are more expensive, but they are of extremly high quality,the price includes S&H and a life time no questions asked warranty. Any bezel can be returned or exchanged upon request, customer covers return shipping costs, a new/different version ships out quickly after I receive the returned version. No receipt necessary, just the bezel. Each bezel is inspected, numbered and dated by me. The black versions are molded out of a 20% Glass Filled Nylon for stiffness and durability. The chrome plated versions are molded out of ABS and then sent off to be chrome plated, with real metal, NOT vacuum metalized, this creates a brilliant and durable metallic exoskeleton, with some shielding properties. So basically the Original Treble Bezel offering from TubeAmpology comes is 7 unique versions to give you the cleanest and most unobtrusive asthetic for your desired application. Chrome Plated in, Standard, Cove or Deluxe. Black texture in, Standard, Cove or Deluxe. 4001V63/C64 in Standard only, This version comes as a kit, with spacers,and fits the Horseshoe pickups with the cover removed. There are pictures posted in my store that can be zoomed in on to see the quality of the finish. http://tubeampology.com/store1/4003-treble-bezels/ Quite frankly, I never thought Rickenbacker would stoop down to Chinese business ethics by copying a product design AND name. As I stated earlier, this is more a moral than legal issue. I’ve always respected Rickenbacker’s Made in America ethos and Jim Halls efforts to curb fakes/copies. And I have always been proud to support their company by buying and playing their basses, as well as being proud to be able to design and produce a product that I believed would make their basses better for some players. All this while making sure I didn’t copy or infringe on any of rickenbackers designs when designing the Treble Bezel. And now seeing this offering from them, using the Treble Bezel name and even some of my wording from my website describing it is very disheartening. (sunsetjunk) New member Posts: 20 Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:16 am

Doubt it. Even if they do,Frank will get a pennies. Don't be surprised if they counterclaim citing "IP". At some time in the distant past a cleaner will have dropped a piece of paper in the Suggestion Box saying "plastic insert for bridge pickup hole" That's all they need . Sure they'd lose in court but their lawyers will makes certain the fella is broke before it ever gets there 🤬 @NikNik You're correct. The Halls are wealthy,owning shopping malls wealthy. Only reason RIC wasn't sold years back is because of it's connection to Old man Hall. Course Hall snr was a shrewd business man so Rics built in the Far East would have happened years back 😃

He's soon to be on the receiving end 🙂 Fella called Frank Pistorio was making "Treble Bezels" for the bridge pickup. http://www.tubeampology.com/ RIC just started selling this. http://boutique.rickenbacker.com/BASS-PICKUP-TREBLE-BEZEL_p_783.html?fbclid=IwAR1zm001rgTgmYOOAM7wthU_iOOo3h94_MvJbpgSkjIXp3p_Mm1zCvn-zoc Sadly Frank P won't get anywhere in the courts,RIC will drag their heels until Frank's legal bill crushes him.

I use an old 1/4" chisel. Spent years doing commercial kitchen refits and fixings generally are filled with gunk.

I've been thinking of buying a greenhouse tent,the indoor type should do nicely. Could even double as a spray booth.

Cut a slot in the head of the bolt then unscrew using a flat driver.

Mine's is another vote for 2 pickups 🙂

I was for single coil,no scratchplate and rear mounted pots. Little margin for error with that so planned on pre-drilling before hand. Course the pine arrived in one big bloody block 😃

Can't beat a slab pine body :-). Did you roughly mark pickup and control cavity positions then drill the hook up wire hole before gluing the body together? I'll be trying that if there's another build.

It's a pretty unique system. https://schack-guitars.com/covered-neck-fixing-sytem

Owned that model, damn fine bass. Company behind Revelation bought Hohner UK and since Alan Entwistle had been their top man he does design work for Revelation.

Wasn't a great deal to see though there was a technique to flipping the combo horizontal, so it could slide in the handy amp storage area on the bus. Designed with handles being closer to the top made that easy,same can't be said for my 158lb Peavey cabs.

Aye. No car back then so bus it was 🙂

Mine went to a Glasgow rehearsal place couple of year back. That was actually my 2nd one.bought the first from Grants in Edinburgh early 80's. The old Alexander's buses had a storage area for them,often hijacked by women with prams 😄

Yesterday a fella on the FB owners page had a post about Fender MB-5 pickups. Says they drop in no problem. Course a google search shows the MB-5 was discontinued years back😢

The Duncan is basically a humbucker ,they say "hum-cancelling". The 2 joined wires mean it's wired in series,stacked pickups tend to lose a bit output and series wired stops it losing more. @BassBunny is correct red is hot.

B-stock come with 3 year warranty and paid returns. Dekos are QC fails so have no warranty and,if it doesn't match the curtains, you pay for any return.

Not missing much. Fan fret guitars have been on there for 6 months,so has the fretless neck through 5 string.

Last scratchplate I did the only tools were a hacksaw and rasp for the shape,drill + various bits/countersink for the pickups etc. Drew the shape out then cut straight lines as near to the outline as possible. Curves and bevel were done with rasp. Was undecided on pickup at this stage so hid a Warman jazzbar below the scratchplate. About 90 minutes work.

I've the split coil single in a PB-50, bloody good pickup. Postal service in Spain is terrible, that bad locals don't really buy mail order.

Both use the same pickups and the preamps in each have the same boost/cut at the same frequencies. Only real difference is the USA used a Korean built PCB and the BXP had a SMT module. Alder bodies with a decorative cap was standard for both BXP & US as was pau fero boards. Most BXP did come through body with single saddle bridges but then Peavey thought that was good enough for the US "custom" bolt-on versions.Those bolt-ons used the surplus preamps from the,then, recently discontinued Millennium. Always smile when I hear folks brand those Millie preamps as an upgrade,it was simple economics 😄 Must say I'm surprised you think there's such a huge difference between the BXP version and the US. Last year a friend picked up a BXP 5'er on her travel up to visit,lovely darkwood model it is. With Gill's 3 US and my 4 it's safe to say we know the Cirrus tone well. Her latest looked,played and most importantly sounded exactly like a Cirrus.

Hotmail.com. It was already in the "junk mail" folder.

Just had an email supposedly from DHL asking to confirm delivery details. It says in reaction to lost parcels their new policy requires name,address etc. To things flag as spam. Mandatory is spelled "mondatory" and "rbkaocc.xyz" seems a funny email address for an international company. According to myonlinesecurity it's been running a fair while. https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/fake-dhl-confirm-your-delivery-details-phishing/