stingrayPete1977

Yeah I like that.

I suppose it depends just how good a price it is?

The inner strings look to be on their inner limits so the only option will be to spread the E and G out to the edges of the board, something looks wrong to me, maybe the bridge isn't assembled right and the ferrules drilled to suit.

That will just move it along, better than at the nut I suppose. A longer shaft on the A tuner and a bit of planning would have sorted it easily. People have been defending all the other bad stuff found on Rics for years, at least we've got something to argue over with the new ones

I wouldn't know where to begin!, excellent stuff, enjoy

A gentle pull from either a retainer or an angled head is better than this 30 degree Ric effort, I'm surprised you're in favour of anything with a sideways force acting on the nut slots. It's not a single change of direction in 3D either, All designs have some downwards force at the nut even if it's just from the tapered post tuner, the Ray goes straight from the nut to the tuner with a slight downwards angle on 3 of its 5 strings, The Ric has the same slight tilt downwards along with left and right break angles on all five, nowhere on the Ray or Fender has the extremes of the Ric including the strings with string Trees.

The gap between the middle strings looks a lot wider than gaps either side, has someone fitted the strung through bridge after?

Elegant form is subjective though, plenty of people like the Fender Head and the Ric one, the perfectly straight strings on the Fender imo trump the angled break of the Ric, looking at the bridge they've got a break angle off to the side there too unlike the straight of the high mass string through one on recent Fender USA fives. It's also corrected on Stingray fives but not all fours. A straight string from end to end must be a better construction method than having two extra kinks.

This isn't true at all, the earlier Jazz fives had all five in a row for many years. The 4+1 keeps the head shorter without the abortion of string lyes that Ric has. I'd take function over form every time.

I don't actually mind the look of them tbh.

Of course Leo didn't design it, they stole it from here

I'm surprised you like them, the guy who said he wouldn't buy a 5 string bass that didn't have 2+3 tuners to keep the B and E on the same side giving more room for the smaller strings on the opposite side and a straight string lye, I'd be upset with that Ric5 layout if I'd made it in my shed, you're the first to poo poo Fenders but they've made a much better job of mine.

To clarify my position on Rics why we need to be insulted as to say we've never tried a good one the shoddy frets, shoddy binding,shoddy body colour finish bleeding into the white binding (every blue one I've seen), the shoddy bridge, shoddy sharp body edges, shoddy neck dive, shoddy splits in the head between the laminates, shoddy pickups with shoddy sharp edges has almost put me off trying them but it didn't, I've actual gigged one a couple of times before giving back.

At least it makes sense, lol.

Our lady singer vetoed this song, I had never listened to the words and I had to agree with her.

Really I have never noticed them! I shall investigate.

who said that?

“That is a wonderful joke,” Richie says of the lyrics. “ ‘Tam bo li de say de moi ya, Hey Jambo Jumbo.’ ” He had called a friend at the United Nations to get some African phrases. “The guy said, ‘Lionel, there’s 101 African dialects.’ ” When the singer asked for just a few words, he was told it would take a few weeks. But Richie needed them immediately — so he churned out his own dialect.

Ha what a Guy, I found a snippet that said he asked an African friend who told him there are 101 languages so he just slapped a few "words" in there as they needed them there and then.

Ha that is "African" apparently, well sort of. The word 'Fiesta' is in there earlier though to throw you off scent, Lol.

Ah I shall look.....

If you thought it was a new thing we have been looking at "In These Shoes?" by Kirsty MacColl, here are the Lyrics. I once met a man with a sense of adventure He was dressed to thrill wherever he went He said: Let's make love on a mountain top Under the stars on a big hard rock I said: In these shoes? I don't think so I said: Honey, let's do it here So I'm siting at a bar in Guadalajara In walks a guy with a faraway look in his eyes He said: I've got a powerful horse outside Climb on the back, I'll take you for a ride I know a little place, we can get there for the break of day I said: In these shoes? No way, Jose I said: Honey, let's stay right here No le gusta caminar No puede montar a caballo (I don't like to dance, I can't ride a horse) Como se puede bailar? Es un escandolo (How can I dance? It's a scandal) Then I met an Englishman Oh, he said Won't you walk up and down my spine It makes me feel strangely alive I said: In these shoes? I doubt you'd survive I said: Honey, let's do it Let's stay right here No le gusta caminar No puede montar a caballo (I don't like to dance, I can't ride a horse) Como se puede bailar? Es un escandolo (How can I dance? It's a scandal) The translation is incorrect for every version I have seen so far and it still makes no sense for those that can read it anyway. (@mcnach, ¿Las palabras en inglés son mal sí? No yo, es tú no bailar y montar. ) I always think throwing in some foreign words to make a song sexy is a dangerous game, the charts have a few nonsense ones in lately. Anyone got any others that come to mind?

When you think about how many idiots there are in the world, myself included, and that everyone is included in that list of protected characteristics then it's not that surprising to find an idiot at the centre of this.

It's not difficult watch, they are junk!

She was there to accompany her daughter hence my comment that she isn't actually a fan and doesn't know the words.