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prowla

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    WD40 - Contact Cleaner

    in General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, BigRedX said:

     

    TBH I don't think I've ever heard a Bass Guitar being called that unless it actually had a "Fender" logo on the headstock.

     

    When I was getting into music in the early 70s the bands I liked were more likely to be be sporting bass guitars by Rickenbacker or Gibson as they were Fender.

    OK, so now there's a mission to find it (was it TV, an interview, an album?).

    WD40 - Contact Cleaner

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Norris said:

    Apologies for the pedantry but "WD" actually stands for water displacement.

     

    Yes, it lubricates. Yes, people use it to try to free up rusty parts. However you'd do much better with a dedicated penetrating fluid like Plus-Gas if your nuts are seized up :)

    Well, that may be a fact, but the product features include penetrating and that's what it was commony known as. 🙂

     

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    WD40 - Contact Cleaner

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    Posted · Edited by prowla

    There was a can of WD-40 contact cleaner in the goody bag at the Screwfix Show last year.

    I don't think I've used it; I've still got a half-full Maplin one.

    It is one of a range of WD-40 products, but the name has tended to be a bit Hooverised to refer to the original penetrating oil.

    https://www.wd40.com/products/

     

    (Back in the day, the bass guitar used to be called the The Fender Bass.)

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    NBD - my first Rickenbacker

    in Bass Guitars

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    1 hour ago, Dov65 said:

    I’ve a query for the more experienced Rickenbacker owner compared to me that is. What’s your method in checking neck relief  & string height on your bass ? I’ve a 2023 4003 single truss rod version

    Press on the 1st and top fret and there should be a business card's gap at the 12th fret.

    String height is as low as it'll go without choking the notes!

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    Fender P to J conversion neck

    in Bass Guitars

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    How strange - just yesterday I was in a thread about another brand of bass which people say is difficult to play and I said:

     

    "I think if you've played a Jazz all your life and then swap to another brand (Warwick, Ric, etc.) it may seem odd, but that's down to closed minds rather than issues with the instruments themselves; in extremis, some folks find it odd to go from a Jazz to a Precision and in the olde days there was a thing of putting Jazz necks on Precisions."

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