wizbat

Nice kit there dude!!
My guitarist has the alembic preamp that dave gilmour used back in the dark side days but I,m sure he wont sell it but I have a chap that reckons he can build a copy of it as he made notes of its contruction whist servicing it.

The tiny toggle switch is probably for selecting the neck and centre pickups ( I,m guessing that it is a three position switch that gives neck, neck and centre and centre options) this is then wired to the main toggle to switch in the bridge pickup.
Thats how I would have it wired.
Never thought about having a middle pickup fitted......... I wonder how much Jon would scream if I suggested it to mine :-)

where abouts are you?
I,ve repaired pickups like this before and I,m happy to have a go if you can get it to me.

[quote name='simon1964' post='398265' date='Feb 2 2009, 09:07 PM']Actually, the most unusual were a pair of 6 string basses shaped like a ric 4003, with white bodies, and a natural quilted maple top. Not sure whether they're being made for anyone on here, but they look incredible. Also a lefty Jazz looking good (albeit back to front!). I think that's Bassmonster's looking at his build diary, and very nice it looks too!

He's also got a stunning White 70s style Jazz, with block inlays, as one of his stock items. I think its on his website, and it looks and plays awesome in the flesh.

In fact, i spent a good half an hour drooling over other stuff, and wondering how I could persuade Mrs 1964 that I need another Shuker......[/quote]


That SC looks superb man.
Welcome to the owners club:-)
Did those rics have a headstock like my avatar perchance? ;-)

Hi there!
I was wondering what bass you were using and string guages, scale length etc.

That.s a nice selection you have there jon.
Ilove the black fittings on the sunburst.

Sorry to hear you,re leaving, I hope everything works out ok.

Yeah!! Smart move that... What happened to tandy ???

Nice to see you got this one finished.
I was wondering what had happened, like maybe the evil egg had stolen it.

[quote name='dood' post='462734' date='Apr 15 2009, 09:35 AM']Hey Paul!! Thanks for your PM, good to chat! - Well! What a beautiful pair of basses! Welcome to the Shuker family! - I think I'm still smilin' too!

I really can not think of a single reason why I'd be going with anyone else to build my basses. I am so chuffed with both my 7 and 6 string Shukers.

I guess you'll need to post in the Shuker mega thread too eh! ;o) - Fantastic basses there. I've enjoyed reading up about them.



I love having that F# string and found no real issues with getting used to 'going lower' either.. and as you say, it sounds great![/quote]


Cheers Dan! I,m honoured to be part of the group. :-)

I love youtube!!

Try Wizard pickups in wales
[url="http://www.wizardpickups.co.uk/"]http://www.wizardpickups.co.uk/[/url]

Sorry!!
Whoops !!! did it again :-)

The way I read it he was actually recommending buying it.

I,ve used Ibanez 5 strings for years but as I,m currently weilding my sixes full of shukery goodness I don,t see my self going back to fives.
I do own a ric 4003 but it mostly lives in its case( bought it cos I always wanted one), it comes out occasionally to play along to 'red barchetta'. :-)

I drive a 450 kwid volvo 940.
I,m not even going to think about how many £450 volvo,s I could buy with what my latest toys have cost!!! :-)

[quote name='eude' post='453548' date='Apr 3 2009, 05:33 PM']Thanks Wiz!
Glad you like the tunes too!
You can listen to a fair few more tunes here >> [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/tenstoreyshigh"]http://www.reverbnation.com/tenstoreyshigh[/url]
Including some live ones!

Cheers,
Eude[/quote]


Yup! that was the site I found.
The live version of dysfuntional was great (acoustic band made up of metal heads!! Hehe. loved it.)

hey Eude! nice basses man!
And I checked out ten storeys high tonite, I love fragile and dysfunctional, some great stuff going on there.
As for serial numbers, Jon numbered mine one and two, now if I could remember which one is which!!!!. :-)

That,s nice man!
john birch was a great man and produced some fantastic work.
Nice to see some of it on here.

That looks fantastic dood!
All the best Shukers have green LEDs

Plans are 'in the pipeline' for a fretless version....
I,m thinking translucent blue with flamed maple wings.

Well I,ve always thought 'whats the point of have one dream bass built' I have a habit of breaking strings (builders hands) and if at a gig I need to change basses, I don,t like the idea of having to use a different 'backup' bass then have to fiddle with the amp eq etc to get going again.
Now I just pick up number 2 and carry on, it also means I can keep one at the rehearsal studio and have one at home for practice as I sometimes go to practice on a motorcycle.
See the 'who rides a bike thread'

Well spotted my good man!
When I asked jon to build them I said that as much as is possible I wanted them to be an identical pair so for example jon selected one piece of wood for the left side of the neck that was cut in half to make two left sides and so on, when it came to the quilted maple tops jon showed me a piece that he,d been holding onto for some time that had very straight grain thru it so that when it was cut the quilt was virtually identical.
The fingerboards were again cut from the same piece as are the rosewood headstock wings and centre strip.
The cream around edges is where the solid color stops and it does look like binding as it comes around the contours of the body, I chose cream or actually old english white as I wanted them to be a bit of a tribute to my bass hero Chris Squire and Wizard made the pickups as close to the original ric specs as they could.
Oh yeah and the strings were made in the piano string stylee for extra 'Twang!!'.
I,ve compared them against my ric 4003 and there is very little difference in sound on the E A D G strings,they have that loverly ric growl but the lower strings are just amazing, imagine a ric with a low B and F# and there you go!.
They have dual truss rods and four carbon fibre rods in each neck for extra stabilty with my own headstock design so that all the strings run straight thru the nut unlike the original ric design, the sustain is ridiculous :-) .

Just replace the sponge with springs mounted below the pickup base.
job done!

Speak to Bassassin (jon) .
He can do ric style trc,s with any name you like except ric of course.