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500k pots, control plate, and vintage style knobs ordered.  Also have some Dunlop style strap buttons heading my way.  

Once that's lots done then all that remains is a tasty set of flatwound and she's ready for action.

17 minutes ago, prowla said:

You can trademark a shape, ie. a design; there is no doubt that the headstock and TRC shape of a Ric are fundamentally characteristic of the product.

You can indeed, but, as aforementioned, only if there's a risk of consumer confusion. It can't be done just for the sake of it.

Actual fakes, ie, items so closely resembling the original that they are intended to deceive the observer into believing they are the real McCoy, are a different matter entirely, and outside of the scope of my above treatise.

I'm playing on Saturday night.  Anyone asks for a Christmas song and I'll just tell them I'm hindu.

Eddie Hitler plays pretty good for a man with a prosthetic left hand.

I don't hate him, I just think he's behaviour was really rather pointless.  I'm not the crispest shirt in the wardrobe, but even I can tell the difference between a real one and one of broadly similar styling:

Everyone knows the far Eastern jobs are far Eastern jobs. No one anywhere, ever, has believed one was the other.

No one - that I can see - is trying to pass off far Eastern job as the real thing.

No one buying a far Eastern job for £90 is liable to be in the market for a real Ric, so it's not as if any business is lost.

You can't trademark a shape unless there's the risk of consumer confusion - no one outside of a mental institution is going to confuse a 90 quid plank for a 1900 quid 4003S - the 1800 quid sized hole in your wallet is a teensy giveaway.  Even leaving aside the 1800 quid price difference, Stevie Wonder could tell at a glance that they're not very alike.

So a lot of chest beating for no other reason that he could. In fact, just like a kid who is toid he can't have a sweetie, reading all of all this has made me want one of the far Eastern jobs just to poke him in the eye.

Fantastic bit of kit, but that ks nothing more than profiteering of the back of Lynott and Lizzy fans.  Were the great man alive I'm sure he wouldn't allow those sorts of prices associated with his name.

And who can forget the classic antipodean anti war anthem?

Not that I'm in the immediate market for one, but if I were that sort of behaviour would have me looking at another brands wares.

Fortunate Sun, Creedence Clearwater revival.

In fact, everything CCR did was blummen brilliant.

22 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Wait ... does this mean the bridge on my P bass is terrible. Looks the same as a jazz bass bridge. Sounds good to me though. 😉

Yep, you'll need to upgrade your Precision to a Jazz.

15 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

With his hands in that position he looks like he's about to grope someone.

His Wife is actually called Albert Hall.

Just to upset him I'd have whipped out my trusty pick.

Alas, my basses aren't interesting.  I stole the first one from a hobo while he was drunk, and I'm building the 2nd myself using parts I smuggled out of the factory in my lunchbox.

I can't see how mastering different types of instrument, or different flavours of the same instrument, is anything but awesome.

Anything by The Doors.  Their bassist is very easy to emulate 🤣

Whatever you want - Staus Quo

I'll be your sister - Motorhead.

Another one bites the dust - Queen.

I used to love playing a Les Paul, and always found the strat a bit toy like in comparison.  That said, I'm a bit bigger than average so the LP never felt heavy, hard edged and slab like to me like it does to some other folk.

9 hours ago, BigRedX said:

And inaccessible to anyone without a Google account.

And that's difficult to resolve because...?

Nothing exciting, and certainly not worthy of a photo...but Gotoh string tree and bronze nut fitted.  The nut in particular is quite lovely and very nicely finished.  The nut necessitated very, very carefully opening up the slot on the fingerboard by 0.5mm to fit, and it was so snug it took a few taps with a plastic mallet to get it properly seated.  Nevertheless, a little bit of Loctite dabbed in place with a cocktail stick was also deployed.

Control panel, locking strap nuts (Dunlop style) and strings and she'll be done.  Mulling whether or not to go for bridge and pickup covers too, but I'll wait until everything else is done so I can eyeball the finished product and make the decision then.

Google Drive.  Live dropbox, but more Googly.

Well done!

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Not all Overwater basses have the truss adjust at body end. 

No, not all, but all the pictures of their J and P style basses I could find do.  Many of their other models indeed do not.  

Also, Overwater Jazz and PB's have the truss rod adjuster at the body end.

If it ever did start out life as an Overwater, there's precious little of it left beyond the body.