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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404692420001

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/status-six-string-bass-with-fitted-case-immaculate-superb/1457831281

£50 fine for the Crocs!

7 hours ago, moley6knipe said:

Mods - isn’t the phrase “the smallish size of my board is a helpful guard from buying too many pedals” an instant ban?!

Nah - it's just a misguided notion, pending the realisation that a larger one is what's always been the requirement.

I'm about to get a project Ric(ish) one to do up; I'll be putting real Ric parts on it!

I'm not a roadworn fan and am under no illusions that I could morph myself into Flea, so it's a no from me.

I had a go on one some time back in a music shop and was underwhelmed.

That said, I do have a neckplate off a Flea which is destined for a fretless partsblaster I'm in the process of putting together, or maybe I'll put it on my other fretless Jazz which has pickups and controls off Geddys (two different ones); thereby making it a mixed celeb bass!

I had a go on one at a guitar show a couple of years ago; I'd summarise it as an average travel bass with a couple of wavy bits of plastic stuck to it.

2 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

Played it with an Osmose and that’s a very cool combination as you can route aftertouch to mod depth and get the pitch bend on the lateral key wiggle.

 

Are you talking about the Poly D when you mentioned the integral keyboard? It doesn’t really sound the same as the gain staging has been adjusted to accommodate the fourth oscillator and the keybed isn’t very good. Or did you mean the Moog reissue (which is lovely).

I meant the Poly D.

I'm no keyboard player, so would likely just noodle around and work out a couple of tunes.

I'm not in real Moog territory (unless they're really cheap and/or it's a set of Taurus pedals at the same time as I have a pocketful of spare cash!).

I have one of these and I really like it.

My only issue is that I spend ages looking for a compatible keyboard and then they went and release the model with an integral one!

Hmmm, it has its drawbacks.

3 hours ago, Jonesy said:

I like that a lot - what is it? 

 

I'd be tempted to just use a black scratch plate and keep the body as is, looks pretty good to me! 

It's a Vox Clubman; the paint was really rubbish close-up.

The body is mostly sanded back to the bare (ply)wood - I just need to get some red-lead to paint it with now!

27 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

I switched from WD40 to UB40 and clean my electrics with red red wine.

So, the WD40 is now unemployed...

I have a Space Pen!

14 minutes ago, Madein1962 said:

Fortunately there's nothing too radical here. It could easily be put back to stock. Most of the changes are pretty standard replacements/ upgrades.

As the bass was quite beat up and in need of TLC when I bought it; I opted to put all of the bits I wanted to try, into a single project.

It still looks and feels like a RIC. Even the colour is an approximation of a special edition that RIC did, a few years ago.

Rickenbacker have changed pretty much everything on the 4000 series basses over time so, is a RIC even a RIC? 🤷‍♂️

Following @Madein1962's comment, I think that the jack plate is the only item which hasn't changed! 🙂

9 minutes ago, JazzyJ said:

WD40. The '40' was the amount of attempts it took to perfect the lubricant.

Another bit of useless information 🙄 

I think they've got 38 products at the moment, so 2 to go?

6 hours ago, Madein1962 said:

My vanity project 4001S with everything renewed / replaced.

The only RIC bit left on it, is the bridge pickup surround.

What about the knobs and jack plate? 🙂

3 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

TBH I don't think I've ever heard a Bass Guitar being called that unless it actually had a "Fender" logo on the headstock.

 

When I was getting into music in the early 70s the bands I liked were more likely to be be sporting bass guitars by Rickenbacker or Gibson as they were Fender.

OK, so now there's a mission to find it (was it TV, an interview, an album?).

3 hours ago, Norris said:

Apologies for the pedantry but "WD" actually stands for water displacement.

 

Yes, it lubricates. Yes, people use it to try to free up rusty parts. However you'd do much better with a dedicated penetrating fluid like Plus-Gas if your nuts are seized up

Well, that may be a fact, but the product features include penetrating and that's what it was commony known as. 🙂

That's a ridiculous price for something which has been maimed in such a way!

Mind you, I bought this lovely "Fender" at a car boot some years ago...

(I still haven't got the refin done.)

There was a can of WD-40 contact cleaner in the goody bag at the Screwfix Show last year.

I don't think I've used it; I've still got a half-full Maplin one.

It is one of a range of WD-40 products, but the name has tended to be a bit Hooverised to refer to the original penetrating oil.

https://www.wd40.com/products/

(Back in the day, the bass guitar used to be called the The Fender Bass.)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196134833272

12 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

I love it when people who plainly know nowt about something come up with tripe to boost it - "Whether you're a seasoned musician or a beginner, this Music Man style bass guitar is sure to meet all your needs"... Yeah, right. I wasn't going to buy it, but, having read that, how could I not do so?

It is pure baloney, isn't it?

Hmmm - could that go on a Ric copy project of mine...

My main strap is one I had made for me by a leatherworker; it's a non-adjustable strip of leather made to my specified length with a Straplock at each end.

The unattributed "owned by", which the seller admitted was tenuous:

"The owner of the boat said he bought the boat off a member of the Womble and these  were left on the boat"

On 11/12/2023 at 17:24, JottoSW1 said:

W Kist refers to it having a case (kist is box or similar in German)

On 13/12/2023 at 22:59, KK Jale said:

German luthier Wolfgang Kist, ex-Hoyer. Made plenty of Alembic-influenced stuff, early 80s.

Good to see someone's on the case!