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... to the forum @usergnome There is an abundance of stuff about Fakers and spare parts for Fakers here on BC. The search function is your friend but here's a few steers: Old (up to March 2017) Rickenfaker thread here: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/270-rickenfakers/#comments New Rickenfaker thread (from March 2017) here: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/305932-the-all-new-rickenfaker-thread/?tab=comments Old thread annoyingly devoid of pix because of 2017 forum platform change which basically blew up all the old links, etc, no one to blame, least said soonest mended. New thread - though not heavily visited these days because people seem to have fanned out into threads about specific stuff - has pix, as do subject-specific threads like this one here from February No reference to this shadowy sub-species of bass guitar would be complete without a respeckful tip o' the hat to BC member @Bassassinwho possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of fakers, their care and their nourishment.

To be fair, the big advantage was finding 90% of it at the dump. Long story short, the Missus dragged me down there on the basis that some charity had a stall there selling 'antique' finds. I spotted a bass leaning against a skip and dropped on it like Luther Van Dross on a cream cake. Dump guy wanted a fiver. Brought it home, discovered it had a snapped truss rod, neck from Oli Foxen, new heads, strung it up, done. Wish I'd kept it now

£5 - Black Encore body inc pup, white guard, harness, hardware from Daventry tip. Couple of scratches, polished out £20 - Vester Jazz-type RW neck inc string retainer from BC-er Mr Foxen £10 - set of Chinese machine heads £4 - set of 'closing out sale' discount Hartke strings £0 - assembly and set-up by me I make that £39.00. Played fine, looked OK. Traded to an amp tech as part-payment for a service. Sadly no pix but I've got to call him sometime, maybe then.

... to the forum, Dasgre0g. That's some healthy backline you've got there

Hi Winton - welcome to the forum

Is this it? Later re-issued by Fender as the DeArmond Ashbory (comparison here) and even later re-booted by The Bass Centre as a more conventionally shaped item with 21" scale rather than the original 18" scale ↓ Edit for: Dannybuoy and the OP beat me to it

No to everything except #7 and I only did it once because I was told I had to.

Hi and welcome back, Joe

Thanks for posting this, @MGB It was that very album cover ↑ (and Bill McCormick's noodlings over the start of track 2 (Tomorrow Never Knows) which set me on the path.

Pretty much, yes. If you've got fret-buzz it's 99.999% a set-up issue You're right that strings need to break over the nut at an angle. But the Fender approach (headstock parallel to fretboard) resolves this by setting the headstock behind the line of the fretboard. If you re-string in a way that the string exits the tuner from it's lowest point the break angle will suffice. If the Mustang is set up correctly you won't get intrusive fret buzz, so you won't need to look at other options. Buy one and enjoy it. But if you really want to explore the market then the little Ibanez Talmans and the short-scale Gretschs get some love round here

Couple weeks ago I'm cooking the dinner with Classic FM on in the background. WTAF, is that the Thunderbirds theme? Nah, it can't be. Presenter: '... and before that you heard the theme from Thunderbirds played by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Derek Wadsworth'. Which struck me as slightly odd, amidst all the Schubert and Dvorak. But nice.

Weight?

One of my hundreds of happy songs and posted here because I was listening to the album earlier tonight.

Manual, pre-sets and sysex here: https://uk.line6.com/support/manuals/basspod/

"And somewhere in the darkness The gambler he broke even"

I deeply regret that anyone will be affected by this development and very much hope that the mitigating measures announced in the last couple of days will support those individuals presented with financial difficulties. That said, between protecting either the leisure / ents industry or the insurance companies there's just no choice. If the insurance sector were to collapse (and let's face it, the banks nearly did) we'd all be royally f*cked, private individuals, companies and institutions alike. There are no happy outcomes in a situation like this; we have to hope the shutdown is brief in duration and the bounceback is sustained. Again, commiserations to those affected

I have shamed myself.

That's because Billy has reached that age when a little help is required:

Mk IIIb version

Following various iterations I am now pleased to present a simplified version of my graphic:

Good point, well made

For the avoidance of confusion I would like to make my position clear by means of the graphic appended below