Stacker

I'll give this a miss. FWIW, never liked the guy's style. Have you something to do with his UK promo, cos that's one hell of a shameless puff-piece?

MAn, that's sweet. Only ever had one Ray (shda kept it) but that's sweet. Good huntin done!

[quote name='Johnston' post='947525' date='Sep 6 2010, 07:14 PM']anyone know how ebay react if you buy an item with that description and then put in a claim saying it's not what it says it is?[/quote] I have had this done to me, maliciously, by a winning bidder who refused to accept my stated freight terms and demanded that I use his courier of choice! He then, the day after auction-end, reported me to ebay for selling him a [b]fake guitar[/b], without him even having it in his posession! I knew immediately what he was up to and did not touch the money he'd sent via Paypal and, sure enough, a couple of days later, came the attempted chargeback. As I hadn't accepted the money, I just waited out the 30 days and didn't send him the guitar. However, I lost my insertion fee and the FVF, but rather that than him having the guitar AND getting his cash back, the c***t! That's the other end of the rope but basically, ebay/Paypal will ALWAYS find in favour of the buyer, initially. And if you get a chargeback and you've emptied your paypal account, tough: they will take the money out of the credit card assigned to that account! That's why I have a pre-paid card assigned to my paypal account, just in case of incidences portayed above.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948638' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:03 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-ARTIST-RED-BASS-/390233956309?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5adbc19fd5"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-1962-HOFNER-...=item5adbc19fd5[/url] £695 I paid £30 in 1974!!![/quote] What an almost coincidence! I paid £32 for mine - my first ever bass! - in '73, though my one had the two selector switches under the front pup. It came with a snakeskin Selmer case and that amazing smell that comes out of those cases has stayed with me ever since. Like a mug, I pawned it a few years later.

Fender do a set; got em on my Blade. cAN't mind the code, though.

HAd one of the mid/late '90s ones. Great twangy tone, certainly not weak . QUite fancy one of the new 'Dead on' ones. I have a Korean made 3-pup guitar with the six-saddle bridge and it has some great quacky Strat tones.

Clarky had left a set of TIs on when i got her (can't mind the gauge) but I didn't have to tweak the neck. What did happen is that I began to get a bit of choking on the A&D up around 15th fret area and had to put a very thin shim under the neck.

I can't comment on the P-basses but, yeh, the Jazzez are amazing. As a fan of the vintage, slim Jazz neck, I thought the chunkier C-shape might bother me but I dropped my string gauge from .040-.100 to .40-.095 on the Nash and it's fine. Agree, Clarky, about the dots: they shoulda been clay and there's no real reason why they shouldn't have been. Then again, the JB63 is not a strict copy of a Jazz from that year. Big 'em up, they're great!

Must be non-factory, surely. Anyhow, nice bass!

Weren't the pole-pieces staggered, though, as opposed to being in line?

That looks like a Gibby pup on the semi-tele, doesn't it?

Go [url="http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/e/"]here[/url] then type in 326714401-3 in the keyword box on the left. Interesting!

The black Jazz? Dunno, I didn't hang around for the meet 'n'greet. What makes you think it was a Bravewood?

Cya there!

[quote name='12stringbassist' post='931164' date='Aug 20 2010, 05:42 PM']My Rics: [/quote] How old's the Johnny Birch?

[quote name='Stag' post='931107' date='Aug 20 2010, 04:32 PM']You could speak to Shaggy, as he is one of the few people to own a Ric FL... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=99327"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=99327[/url] for some piccies [/quote] I had a 4001FL. HAted it. It was a very weak fretless sound.

Any Basschatters going to his show this afternoon?

Really? Wow. All I'm gonna says is I wouldn't pay £2k for that. No way. And why only 6? Must go looky.

That's fkn brilliant! He's gotta be havin a laff!!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chris-Squire-YES-special-Rickenbacker-4003-one-6-/190431778336?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV"]Chris Squire Special[/url] Complete news to me.

[quote name='Starless' post='928852' date='Aug 18 2010, 05:51 PM']The Bad? (Here goes) The metalwork is terrible. The tailpiece/bridge assembly is a joke. I don't think they could have come up with a more awkward, limiting, un-adjustable contraption if they'd tried. The tail will lift after a while and reduce the break angle over the saddles. Palm muting is a nightmare because of aforementioned damping mechanism housing. Intonation adjustment is a constant loop of check, loosen strings, take out bridge part, tweak screw, replace bridge part, tune up, check, loosen strings, take out bridge part..... String height adjustment is one side or the other (not individual strings). The bridge pickup is housed in a gaping hole in the body, cover the hole by leaving the (plastic) pickup cover on (serves no useful purpose) but this restricts where you can pick/finger. Remove the useless plastic cover to reveal the gaping hole and the chrome pickup surround which is cunningly designed wth sharp protruding points which catch your plucking fingers right on the meat. The pickup selector toggle switch (on all 4 Rics I have owned) is sprung on a hair-trigger so the slightest inadvertent touch on it in the 'up' position will ping it back to the middle position mid-song. Solution? Replace stock tailpiece with a Hipshot drop-in Ric replacement. You lose the damping mechanism but gain total adjustability with no protruding edges and palm-muting now possible all the way back to the saddles (which adjust individually in every dimension - even side-to-side string spacing can be adjusted). Just don't mention the Hipshot on the RickResource forum - they will ban you (it happened to me). For the pickup surround, invest in a Pickguardian replacement pup surround (available in a variety of finishes) and avoid chopping your plucking fingers to bits. The company itself has something like a 2 year backlog so they don't really need to bother their arses as the order books are full for the forseeable. This attitude manifests itself in their amazing habit of messing around with the neck profile (one of a Ric's major selling points - a super slim neck) and not telling anyone. If you tried a mate's Ric in December then bought one manufactured in January you would wonder why it felt nothing like your mate's. The necks range from slim to chunky to not-so-chunky and back to slim depending on the year and month of manufacture. If you order a new one now (and wait two years for it to turn up) you haven't a clue what you will be getting. If you buy one off of eBay - you haven't a clue what you will be getting. Unless you can find one locally, in the colour you want then try before you buy. A grand and upwards is lot of money to be taking a wild stab with - and that's what you'll be doing when you a buy a new-ish Ric as far as the neck is concerned. In general, if I hadn't been introduced to Rics at an early age, I would not own one today. I discovered Fenders (and similar style basses) long after my Ric, and although it took me a while, I now 'get it' as far as Fenders are concerned. The Ric has tended to have a few 'celeb' owners (Squire, McCartney, Waters, Geddy Lee etc etc) but it always seems to be a temporary association as they all moved on to other things, and once the novelty of a Ric wears off, you are left wondering (at least I am) exactly why you paid an absolute fortune for such an oddball piece of kit. My latest Ric I got 2nd hand (very cheap) and I have been restoring it to more pristine condition. I would never buy a new one, that is just mental (IMO) (see neck profile changes above).[/quote] Well said on the neg points, esp the tailpiece. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why RIC went to the 7-screw tailpiece (which cured tail-lift) but reverted back to the 5. Beyond me, that. I've lit many a flame on RR but haven't been on there for ages. Maybe time to go back and mention Hipshot! BTW, has anyone seen the 4003 CS Special that's up on Ebay?