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[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='1211068' date='Apr 25 2011, 06:02 PM']Shameless repost: 1984 Aria ZZB-Custom in Factory-Stock 'Bloody Red'. 32" scale & 54" tip to tip.[/quote] Damn! This thing is awwwwwesome!

Yup, there's a Squier 51 P-Bass with the same neck, but coated in gloss. Them TB basses have surprisingly comfy necks, especially given their chunkiness.

Here's my tiny rig, just arrived today...

[quote name='Sibob' post='1212297' date='Apr 27 2011, 08:13 AM']I was under the impression that with active/passive basses, even when passive is selected, the battery will still run down from being plugged in?! Si[/quote] Depends on how it's wired, really.

Man that's hawt!

Wow! That is gorgeous!

Lookin' good!

[quote name='mcnach' post='1211019' date='Apr 25 2011, 04:59 PM']Your google search must have been... interesting. [/quote] Honestly, that could be said of most bass/guitar stuff.

Here's my homebrew/parts bass I made from a Jackson Kelly guitar, and a Mighty Mite P neck. The neck and bridge pickup are NOS Gibson TB+ pickups, the middle was a Rio Grande Pitbull, but I have a Jackson pickup there now. The hardware is all Hipshot, bridge is brass, and the tuners are Ultralites. The nut is nickle. Controls are an on/off for each pickup, volume and tone, both pots are push/push, one being a coil cut for the Rio Grande or Jackson pickup, and the other is a "solo switch", hardwiring the bridge pickup to the output jack, bypassing all controls.

Or you can get them direct off of Hipshot. Think Bass Direct has them too.

Oh coool! He made a bunch of oddly awesome stuff! Agreed about the pickups! Definitely look like they could do damage!

Here's one I've always loved, originally made for Barry Devlin, bassist for Horslips(he eventually gave it to a fan/friend). One of the other members of the band designed it, I don't remember which. I've often thought of asking a luthier to make me a copy, or something close to it.

Gorgeous! Congrats!

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1208818' date='Apr 23 2011, 12:44 AM']This tweetertone I'm not convinced about. I have an attenuator on my cab, so if I want it off I turn it off if I want full on high sizzle I turn it up. I'm yet to use a cab that needs an amp to control the tweeter. What if the can has no tweeter, do you have a useless knob?[/quote] The 450 has a low pass filter built in to it, at 5k, so I've read, the tweetertone controls that, moving it higher or lower, should help with getting brighter more modern tones. Tweetertone is kind of a silly name for what it is.

Yup, that's the way Ricky do it.

The last one, definatly.

Awesome.

Heh, your head gear must be heavier than your cab! EDIT: Double heh, slow timing by me.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1201909' date='Apr 16 2011, 04:09 PM']This is exactly what the current Rockinbetters are like: [url="http://www.twangguitars.com/rockinbetter-rg4003-bass-guitar-fireglow-1529-p.asp"]http://www.twangguitars.com/rockinbetter-r...glow-1529-p.asp[/url] Actually, didn't notice the Bass Collections have the extra fret until after I posted, so scrub the "authentic" bit of my first comment! Still really pretty though, I'm a total sucker for checked binding! J.[/quote] Ah! Cool, I've only seen the older Rockinbetters with the weird bridge and the Fender pickup cover.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1201720' date='Apr 16 2011, 12:06 PM']Most authentic & prettiest modern copy yet, certainly this version with the checker binding anyway. These did come up a month or so ago (prob. in the Rickenfakers Ebay thread) and from what I can see they are the same as the most recent iteration of the Rockinbetter wannabe, with the exception of the aforementioned binding on this one. And the 250 or so extra quid it'll cost you. They're on the Bass Centre site with even more tongue-swallowingly mental prices: [url="http://www.basscentre.com/bass-collection/page/2/"]http://www.basscentre.com/bass-collection/page/2/[/url] Big pic of the checker-bound one: [url="http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r437/gtrguitars/bass-cal-dlx-body-ebay.jpg"]http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r437/gt...x-body-ebay.jpg[/url] Jon.[/quote] Looking at them pics, to me they seem much more like the Shine Ricken-clones, 22 fret, that bridge and bridge pickup cover. Just without the Duncan pickups, and with the binding and Ricky headstock.

Some awesome wee rigs here.

Pretty dang cool.

If you had the eq knobs higher on the old head, it might have been enough to affect the volume.

Exactly, when you're going for it, may as well get something you can't nab at any popular guitar store.

That's one tasty looking Ricken-faker.