Delberthot

When I get a m*nger of the bass variety, the first thing I do is completely strip it down. Lemon oil onto the fretboard to give it a good clean. Mask off the frets and use 000 grade steel wool from B&Q etc to take the crap off the frets. Take the hardware and fire it into a container of cheap cola for a day or so depending on how bad it is. Do this with the pickup covers if they separate from the pickups. cleaning the body really depends on the finish. I bought a bottle of dark blue Colour Magic car polish in the early 90s and I'm still using it to clean up basses and it makes it smell like bubble gum. Febreeze to the case if it has one Assemble and set up and your good to go - this is also the time to put a shim in the neck if it needs one Easy to replace the switch - remove first wire from old switch and solder to same connector of new switch, remove other wire and solder it to matching connector on the new one and Bob's your auntie's live-in lover

[quote name='Delberthot' post='840303' date='May 17 2010, 10:20 PM']Shouldn't there be a ground wire from the back of the volume pot, to the tone to the jack? I could be completely wrong but they don't look like Stackpole pots To ask the old question: if its in such good condition is it a) a refin; extremely well looked after or; c) a complete dog to play and thusly been sat in some uncle's loft for 50 years?[/quote]

Shouldn't there be a ground wire from the back of the volume pot, to the tone to the jack? To ask the old question: if its in such good condition is it a) a refin; extremely well looked after or; c) a complete dog to play and thusly been sat in some uncle's loft for 50 years?

my understanding of the way it works is that pins 1+ and 1- of the speakon were full range and pins 2+ and 2- are for high frequency so splitting them from the main conection to 2 separate outputs should be possible. OBBM knows his stuff so made me a speaker cable to do just that but it doesn't give me any output to the high frequency section. Nothing to do with the way the brightbox works - swapping the outputs over gave me a signal to the brightbox but not to the 2x15", switch back over and I get output to the 2x15" but not the brightbox the 800RB had a separate output for the high end - don;t know why they didn;t allow this option for the 1/4" jack output

Hi I got OBBM to make me a cable to allow me to send the lows from my 700RB II to my 2x15" and the highs to the bright box as I wanted to control the volume going to the bright box instead of just linking it. It doesn't seem to be working the way I thought it would. Does anyone have a bi-ampable GK speaker that lives near me that I can try to see if I have a faulty amp as I'm not getting anything going to the bright box?

I spotted these on Ebay. They look very well made

They all look very well made - the jazz even comes with series/parallel switching I wonder who they've got making these - possibly the same place that made those 7 and 8 string basses that used to be on Ebay in the US. they were all set neck as well

Aye, he has a 4005 which is painted or something. I vaguely remember him having some sort of design on his. The 4005 is the daddy as far as the Rick fans go, moreso the 6 and 8 string versions and the lightshow one. As far as I remember, he mainly used the 3000/3001

eh? Like the 3000 before it, these were built as budget learners instruments. They've never been highly sought after like their big brothers - unless you're a huge Mani fan. I forget if he used a 3000 or a 3001 These are the Rickenbacker equivelants of the Musicman SUB. Pretty steep considering you can get a 'proper' 4003 for that kind of money

Nice to see a decent attempt at a Stingray copy with a difference. Not sure how long they'll last before Sterling sees them and does a John Hall as they seem to have managed to copy the current EB bridge and are called the 'Ray 4' [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Retrovibe-RAY4-Black-Bass-classic-Musicman-styling-/190396427202?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c5482ebc2"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Retrovibe-RAY4-B...=item2c5482ebc2[/url]

I had my black Epiphone Thunderbird fitted with DR red devils and they were really growly for the bass but rough as a badgers @r$e

haven't looked at the picture but I'm picturing something along the lines of the beginning of Back to the Future

No pictures yet but I am now the proud owner of Squier VM Jazz fretless and fretted basses. I'm still contemplating seeing if I can swap the body of the fretless with one from a fretted so I have 2 identical natural finish Jazzes. I may swap the necks on both, sell the fretted neck on the sunburst fretless body and buy another VM fretted if I can't find anyone to swap with. not sure yet

I've decided to start with a basic mod first by installing a series/parallel switch I've been a fan of P basses for a while and from what I have been reading, this changes the sound to a fairly close approximation

Nope - that's the one all the Rick fans would sell their mothers for as used by Chris Squier, Roger Waters, John Entwhistle etc Although it isn't totally original - didn't think they were going for quite a high price as that.

cool - let me know how you get on with it.

I too have been contemplating this but according to what I've read so far unless you really don't like the pickups, the consensus is not to bother. I had been thinking about a drop in preamp like an Audere or something but do I really need it?

Team up with someone who only plays with bright strings - that way you can go halfs on strings, with the other guy getting the bright zinginess and you get them when they go dull Or put a Wanted ad for dead strings

I've seen these things in the passing and since I now have a jazz for the first time in ages was wondering if anyone had ever tried one of these before [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-JAZZ-BASS-VARITONE-CONTROL-W-STANDARD-DUAL-VOL-/280504194276?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Guitar&hash=item414f5a54e4"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-JAZZ-BASS-VAR...=item414f5a54e4[/url] An Audere or East Retro would be lovely but they cost about the same as the bass they'd be going into. I've also thought about installing an active system either built into the pickups or a separate preamp but am having trouble locating one that will fit into the existing control cavity. i do remember that EMG used to do a JV model that was reviewed in Bassist magazine years ago but don't know if the JV model they do now is the same as it appears to have separate gubbins