Waddo Soqable

I've had a few Ricks and a few fakers, with the crazy price of real ones there's a good market for the fakers at 300ish quid I'd think.. Pity Ric didn't do a "Squier" type range made in the far east at reasonable prices, they'd sell loads. The thing I don't like about those particular chickenbackers is the bulbous contoured top and the very leaning back headstock, purely aesthetics I suppose

I'd kind of be like that with a guitar, with it's silly little skinny strings so close together, hence my thoughts that wider might equal easier. Maybe just play on one string to start with, then add the string next to it and build slowly from that? Just an idea off the top of my head, I'm no teacher, wouldn't have the patience! 😁

I'm very much a pick player and I'd think a, narrow spacing would be more difficult if you're having problems, rather than easier?

Very interesting link that 👍

Fender Backhander... Comes with 100 quid in grubby notes hidden in the case

Could well be worth a try out at 100 quid, if it's near you give it a twang and see...

Greedflation.. great term, I've not heard that one, but fairly obviously there's a lot of it about..

I shall most certainly check it out..

He's never using a bass... Surely..?

Hmm. I wonder if I could go to the doc and blag getting a bass on prescription... Honest doctor, it'll have to be a rickenbacker or my tourette's will come straight back again...

One perhaps for the US Market, the "Bubba'd" series. .. body blowtorch stripped and refinished with brown shed paint, headstock re-carved to a rough point with a surform

I'm guessing the Shaftesbury badged ones are lower end than the ibanez, I remember the Rick copies at the time were mainly bolt on, but there were a few that were set or thru neck, Ibanez were likely those. A bit of a "Mastermind specialised subject" the 70s Japanese guitar market I'd think! 😁

You'd struggle to fit that on a headstock...

The Jap stuff of the era pretty much all was bolt on tho, it's a lot easier and cheaper to manufacture for sure, it may be they produced necks and bodies in completely different factories and assembled them elsewhere?

Nah...

A roadworn Squier range could be the Squier "Beater" series

Mmm.. Bombay Bad Boy.. (or the sweet & sour one) Out of date? Who cares they'd prob last for decades and be fine..

I'm no sparky but I'd think an extra .5 wouldn't be any problem at all when you're looking at 13v, assuming all the other elements are correct of course.

I'm wondering if there's such a thing, a nice 3 click rotory switch ( that could perhaps have a smaller vol/tone type knob) that could replace the annoying 3 position toggle "Les Paul" style switch, to avoid this kind of thing..

One of our mates had an SH101, this would be a few years after the period we've been discussing, he had one of the little handle faux keytar things, (I think they were an optional extra) we would tease him about this and call it his W@nk handle 😁

I bet a few ended up in a skip too...

I have a feeling that the electronic music course thing we rolled up to was at Goldsmiths college in SE London ( but I could be wrong it was a very long time ago! ) it was only a kind of evening class type of thing, you could probably go to it free if you were signing on, as we mostly were. A couple of years before that I was at art college, foundation course or whatever it was... they had a great "drama studio" bit, that literally never got used anymore, naturally a bunch of us would mess about playing in there to our hearts content, and left to get on with it with no moaning about noise or anything Incredibly looking back they had a VCS3 in there.. we messed about with it but couldn't get much joy with it unfortunately.. my mate John was very much into Roxy Music & Brian Eno so he was designated VCS3 operator.. We should have just found one of the college technician guys and asked if they had the manual really! doh....

Nah, they'll just look at "bass guitar" or "vintage bass guitar" or whatever and see what comes up...

Die You Bastard, M/head