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Certainly a "rich" asking price, no doubt he's ploughed a fair bit of dosh into it.. However it's a very "niche" bass now, ( tho clearly I like the idea of it) it's the sort of thing you'd do if you really wanted that mod. yourself to keep and use it... I reckon you're fairly sure to lose money on it if you decide to flog it unfortunately. Still, a bold move I guess and I wish him luck 🙂

In defence of the gent above, I confess to have been contemplating a headless Stingray over the last few days, OK so I wouldn't be butchering a full fat EBMM Stingray but a "Sub" type..

Thanks for the Info re. NOVA parts, I've already got the guyker bits ordered and en-route so will use them in this instance, but as I mentioned, I've got a fancy for maybe doing another headless if this experiment goes well and will certainly look at the Nova kit in that case. I had another twisted idea that a headless Stingray might be an interesting thing!

It looks brilliant as it is, good honest wear and clearly you've a long history with it, I wouldn't dream of changing it... IMHO of course

Thanks for the measurements 👍 I will get the calipers out and see how mine compares shortly, I'd think fairly similar by the looks. I'll be 100% hacking all bits of extraneous headstock off mine, I prefer the straight "sawn off" look, I did have one of those Jack headless basses years ago, probably only got pennies for it when I flogged it, so shame I didn't keep it for the parts /project potential as it turns out, hey ho.. I'm already kind of planning in my feverish noggin another theoretical headless build project, thinking of another Rickesque scratch built body for that one ( I'm clearly drinking way too much black coffee at the mo..)

Ironically after ordering the stuff on A. ex, I got a few "special offers" from ebay sellers for the "overlard of music" bridge kits, due to having simply viewed them, I may have been tempted to give one a go had the offers arrived earlier, (allegedly ships from UK too)... but the route I took was probably for the best as they don't seem to have a very good build quality by all accounts. (and the guyker stuff has already been nicely trialled here!) I look forward to the arrival of the kit I did get anyway, though gawd knows how long it'll take with post strikes and Xmouse etc intervening. A question for @Bassassin.. On your bass what was the approx measurement between the flat top of the body and the top of the fretboard (at fret height)? I ask as you mentioned the need to drop the saddles a bit to get a reasonable action and wondering if I'll need to do likewise (I suspect I will! ) I've revisited your thread numerous times for inspiration for sure.. One thing that occurs to me, I really would do the trimming the head "lump" right down to the block as you theorised, it would look much better, purely IMHO of course!

Well I registered on ali-ex. after a bit of a faff, and (to the best of my knowledge!) have ordered the exact same kit of guyker parts as used here, with shipping and "tax" the total was 49 quid so not too much of a price hike, provided I don't get hit for yet more sleazy import duty on top! So it appears I'm kind of committed to this madness now eh!

Thanks for the Intel guys, I may message the ebay seller to ask if they're going to restock, I've seen a variety of this type of stuff on ebay, the Headless project kit seems to be fairly expensive for what it is, I've never bought on Alexexpress before but will give them a look, the stuff on there is always a suspiciosly good price! If I do a butcher's job on the faux-Rick I'll be sure to do a blow by blow account.

Nice job 👍.. I had one of those Wesley Ricko things about 2010, it was quite a good bass, tho as you allude to, the headstock's hideous and spoilt the look of the original thing.( I see why they felt the need to do it of course) I'm thinking of doing similar to a rocktile Rick, do you have a link to the seller for the Guyker tuner/bridges and head block set you bought by any chance?.. the ones I've seen are somewhat more expensive and 45 for the whole lot is a good price! The Guyker stuff seems better quality kit, I'd be avoiding "overlord of music" from what I've heard these have a bad rep for rather "soft" metal components!

I did watch that some while back, but I'll definately give it another look as it was very well done and worth seeing again👍

Here's another cracker from Joe Meek. Note the bass player using a single index finger throughout on his groovy Burns bass.. (Ok I know they're miming, but presumably thats how he played it ) Apparently he was the brother of the excellent Honey Lantree on drums too

Telstar vid indeed featuring Heinz Burt with the rather "bright" hair ! Sadly died in 2000 apparently, only in his mid 50s.

Some vintage thumb action....

So do you sell sea shells by the sea shore then ?

It's surprising how nice and deep a sound you can get with the thumb compared to a normal finger.. Indispensable for dub type sounds 👍

I seem to remember some punk stuff on the lightning label back then too.. I'll have to go back thru the thread and have a listen to what you've been posting as not been on basschav much !

Unless you had blagged the hotel as a freebie, you coulda' saved a pile of dosh and crashed at our flat in Islington back then 👍

I have yes, I just traced a thin paper template of the headstock in real size, cut the shape out with scissors, drew round it on the actual headstock, and trimmed the wood to suit. This assumes you've got enough extra wood to do this, the one I did was a chinese cheapo neck that the headstock was oversize in the right places, so was easy enough to re shape to the fender design, just needed a bit off the bottom and accentuate the "curve" a bit.

Picato, 98700 ground nylon banjo 19 19 set 87NY. is what's marked on the packet. ( I didn't use the 5th short drone string as I just play 'em as a 4 string like some of the old ragtime mob did ! ) You may have to hunt round as nylon banjo strings seem fairly rare in uk for some reason, tho picato strings are uk made allegedly. i thought they immediately sounded much nicer than steel strings, but it's obviously all down to personal preference and what you want to play on it.

Top man ! Wish I'd have known about this at the time as I was often around Shoreditch in 2015 and would have happily come and hurled things at you !

This isn't Klezmer, but if you're interested in historical Jewish music, check out this group. This track is a favourite of mine, having a bit of a Sephardic connection myself.

That's a coincidence, as I've just changed some steel strings over to nylon ( effectively gut equivalent) on the banjo i was putting together, as I preferred the sound, the very old banjo I've got has always had non-steel strings so I was aware they're quite different, and gets away from the bluegrass type sound !