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noelk27

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  1. [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1351635811' post='1853652']i was wondering [/quote] Me also!
  2. [quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1352110280' post='1858698']I think the story could well be true, it could also have been a practice board for a new sprayer (As stated in previous response), that was assembled and played later on, could be anything really.[/quote] Late 80s I saw something like this when I was in the States. It was a 60s era Telecaster. Didn't have as many colours - from memory, yellow/gold, blue, green, red. The story I was told was that it was a test/practice piece. Bodies/parts that had been rejected for some quality control issue were used.
  3. [quote name='ikay' timestamp='1351796825' post='1855599']As a guide, this one was up for sale on this forum last year for £150 - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/135150-ibanez-rs940-sold/"]http://basschat.co.u...nez-rs940-sold/[/url][/quote] That example has a few issues. Prices more usually £300 to £400 for good examples, with original case.
  4. [quote name='Si600' timestamp='1351774771' post='1855189'][W]onder what he'll do if he ever gets a guitar with a locking nut on it?[/quote] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trev-Wilkinson-classic-electric-USA-style-solid-guitar-variant-/190695956293?_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&si=P0pLGTFaCE7rySQ6p4vhidOEeCw%3D&orig_cvip=true
  5. [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1351343933' post='1850341']this says mahogany, I guess judas wood is facings. [url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary/expansion.php?cat_id=34&now=3"]http://www.ibanez.co...cat_id=34&now=3[/url][/quote] Should click on the link being quoted - thought you were talking about the APII Cardinal.
  6. [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1351331336' post='1850121'][B]ody wood on that model I would expect from memory to be mahogany.[/quote] Ash. Were all either ash or ash/alder sandwich.
  7. [quote name='ikay' timestamp='1349362667' post='1825325']Yes I think you're right about the original series being made in Taiwan.[/quote] No, the original TRB models were all made in Japan. The first to appear was the TRBS. Officially first manufactured in '89, pre-production examples from '88 exist. The first TRB5 was developed in '90. This used the pickup design (P/J configuration) from the RBX series, paired with the original TRB circuit. The rest of the TRB story is pretty much covered elsewhere.
  8. [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1350241461' post='1836268']Contrary to what some people think , it's not the case that Alan Spenner played on all the records and Gary Tibbs just played the live shows ; after he joined the band Gary played on a good proportion of the recorded work .[/quote] Alan Spenner and Neil Jason were the main bassists with Roxy Mk II (Manifesto, Flesh + Blood, and Avalon). Gary Tibbs played on either two or three studio tracks featured on Mk II albums. (Two versions of the Manifesto album exist, featuring different recordings of two tracks, so whether it's two or three depends on which version of that album you've been listening to all these years.) When you take into account Ferry played bass on one Mk II track, it's hard to argue Tibbs studio input was anything other than minimal. Tibbs main role was live performance. As for the tracks "Manifesto" and "Same Old Scene", both lines were played by Spenner.
  9. [quote name='BassPimp66' timestamp='1349213963' post='1823530']All the steel and the nickel comes from ArcelorMittal.[/quote] While the number of metals/alloys manufacturers supplying wire manufacturers supplying musical string manufacturers is a short one, it's certainly longer than one. Nippon Steel/Shinnittetsu certainly supply specialist wire manufacturers in Japan. Seems likely that a few of the other 90 plus metals/alloys manufacturers will also be doing so.
  10. "As with almost all the Japanese copies made in the sixties and seventies the body is laminated not a single piece of wood." Usual ill-informed b*ll*cks.
  11. [quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1348869774' post='1819465']I bet he was hacked off to find they would'nt all fit in a line so "trusting to his own beliefs and instincts" he bodged a fix.[/quote] It's not that the tuners wouldn't all have fitted in line, it's that the edge of the baseplate would have gone beyond the edge of the headstock, leaving the fixing hole on the very edge of the wood, if not over the edge. It's the classic mistake.
  12. Buy a G&L Tribute L2000 and have the set.
  13. [quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1348393303' post='1812962'][W]hen you have the new string in the bridge & threaded onto the post at the other end; pull the string hand taught over the 12th fret & aim to get around 14cms between the string & the fingerboard. Put a slight kink in the string at the peg (to show you that correct point in case it slips) & start winding. Sounds a bit of a rigmarole but it works for most, you may have to adjust the "15cm" bit depending on the string gauge, machine post thickness, etc.[/quote] Sounds like a lot of hassle. For a standard post (Fender design) measure 4" passed the post, bend the string, then clip behind bend. For a mini post measure 3" passed the post, bend, clip.
  14. Well, there are lots of string manufacturers that fly under the radar, such as Maxima/Optima and Sfarzo, making strings for electric/acoustic guitar/bass, as well as those operating in Asia, such as Zijin (Kong Yuen) and Guangzhou (Alice) in China, and Yale (YH) and Samick in South Korea. The statement that there are around half a dozen manufacturers in the world did make me laugh, as the last time I looked into this the list extended to around 70 manufacturers of electric/acoustic guitar/bass strings, but that's just a subset of all musical instrument string manufacturers.
  15. [quote name='uke' timestamp='1347919875' post='1806793']"full pro set up by me" Can he say this?[/quote] There's no professional body or standard qualification for guitar repairers, so, yea, he can.
  16. Paisley Freight http://www.paisleyfreight.com/
  17. [quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1347185051' post='1797685']It looks like it has a Status graphite neck in the Top of the Pops clip?[/quote] Not on the first of his StingRays - the one, estimated to be a '79, purchased from Sam Ash, in New York, in '82. That one has been re-boarded, with a 100+ year old touchboard from a double bass, but is otherwise stock. He did purchase another two fretless StingRays, one in an identical finish to his '79. Were Status manufacturing carbon graphite Stingray necks prior to July '83?
  18. [quote name='witterth' timestamp='1347155758' post='1797550']No one likes a Know it all J is for....[/quote] Would rather know the facts, than perpetrate internet rumours. And it appears to being implied that his first fretless was the StingRay. That's not correct. His first fretless was a Fender Precision, in addition to his first bass being a fretted Fender Precision. The Fender was purchased over a year before the first of his StingRays, and was featured on Nick Heyward's North of a Miracle and Go West's Go West, alongside StingRays. He also acquired a Pedulla Buzz Bass, which was routinely used for studio recordings.
  19. [quote name='witterth' timestamp='1347089189' post='1796785']Fretless MM stingray is what he was known for at the time ... wouldn't touch a Precision back then. How times change.[/quote] I guess, if you're ignoring that his first bass was a Fender Precision, which he used when he worked with Jools Holland's Millionaires and with David Knopfler, as well as it being his main fretted bass, until he acquired a Warwick Thumb. [quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1347089822' post='1796789']'79 Fretless SR plus Boss OC-2 plus an obliging sound engineer on Paul Young's No Parlez album were the 3 ducks which lined up to bring Pino charging into to our lives in the first place.[/quote] I guess, if you're ignoring that the first project he used the Stingray/OC2/direct to desk combination was Gary Numan's I, Assassin, released in late '82, and a big hit album, before playing on Nick Heyward's North of a Miracle, released in early '83, another big hit album. Paul Young's No Parlez didn't appear until mid '83.
  20. Two M&S clothes hangers and a cricket bat.
  21. There's one (at least) in the UK. Imported for £8,000.
  22. [quote name='greyparrot' timestamp='1346846275' post='1793923']everthing seems to be there even that strange key thingy!![/quote] aka tuner torque key. That's the tool that goes missing most often, so it's good to have that still. Lots of things in its favour. The bolt-on (detachable in Aria speak) 600 has a different character to the set neck version, and all the through-neck models. Always liked the attack you can get from that design/pickup combination. That said, the through-neck models are more commonly what people associate with the SB design. If it was an early 700, in A1 condition, with the add-ons, you'd probably get £450. Given what you say about condition (excellent as opposed to good), I'd hold firm at £400.
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