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I've just arranged to buy a 'faker project; I'm due to go and pick it up next weekend. I'm not sure of the brand; it's got the skunk stripe in the neck and into the neck pickup bay, but not then through to the bridge. It'll probably be a platform to build the parts onto, with the aim of picking up a genuine Ricky body at some point if I spot one. I might put the Seymour Duncan off the red one above onto it (and restore the original pickup to the original Ricky). I've got another Hipshot bridge which will go onto it. The one I'm buying has Schaller machines, but I plan to put a Hipshot Xtender/D-Tuner onto it (I've just put one onto my Precision fretless project). It's got a scratchplate, pickup surround and replica Ricky truss-rod cover, but is missing a twin jack plate (it was single-jack, but the previous owner has drilled a second socket).

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1482784798' post='3202753'] Is that one of the Hipshot bridges? [/quote] Yep. [quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1482798499' post='3202829'] Interesting. Definitely a Faker? [/quote] Actually, no; it's a genuine '73 Ricky - I faked a faker!

Well, I've only found out about it by reading this thread today; It might be worth strolling in on the Saturday, though.

Here's a good 'un!

I'm playing around with a Precision - it's a Squier body & neck at the moment, with miscellaneous other parts including a Badass II bridge, a Shadow pickup (the Squier ones were too quiet) and my pots & socket wiring, but the plan is to replace the body (maybe with a Warmoth?) and the neck at some point. When I've done, I guess I'll reassemble the Squier and either start again or sell it on. I've got conductive tape for the cavity (and underside of pickguard) and I'll probably put a layer of insulating tape or plastic film on top of that near the socket. I've also using little gold connectors to join the pickups and the bridge earth, so I can easily swap things around. I have thought of trying a Rickenbacker pickup in the neck position, since I've got a spare one...

OK - here's a brace of Rickys... [center]DA07 Jan '64[/center] [center]LJ1165 '73[/center]

Hi! I've got a Trace Elliot BLX-130 SMH combo and it's got a hum around G# (420 Hz?) through the speaker. The hum occurs immediately it is switched on, without anything plugged in, and is at a constant level regardless of the volume, eq, switches, gain settings.The amp also has a fan which kicks in on power-on; I can hear it spinning too (but the hum in question is from the speaker). It'd be great to get some advice on what to check out for this (I'm thinking output diode/regulators?). I don't have a circuit diagram and I haven't opened it up yet. Thanks! (P.S. The SMH is the model with a HF horn on the front, but the Fostex FH47 horn broke - ie. its plastic mounting became brittle and split - so at the moment there's a hole where it goes and its wires have insulation tape on them 'til I can get a replacement.)