Incoming!!! (show Us Your New Stuff Before You Actually Have It)

DiMarco said:
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Arrived just now. Needs a setup. Everything works. Photo isn't great due to cellphone quality. Yay!
Will make stringspacing a little wider as this is the first ever Ric with a proper bridge. Truss rods can be tightened some too. I like my action LOW.
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LOOKS GREAT !!!

Congrats on your NBD :)
 
Hector said:
LOOKS GREAT !!!

Congrats on your NBD :)
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Thanks man. I let the bass climatize for 5-6hrs then did some setting up.

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For now I set the string spacing as wide as possible, tightened both truss rods a tiny bit and lowered the bridge saddles half a mile.
Amazing just how much lighter a proper setup makes any bass play. I can now pull my doubleslap tricks on this Ric (blasphemy!) and there's some nice fretnoise when digging in with a pick.

Pretty sweet stuff so far. l
 
DiMarco said:
Thanks man. I let the bass climatize for 5-6hrs then did some setting up.

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For now I set the string spacing as wide as possible, tightened both truss rods a tiny bit and lowered the bridge saddles half a mile.
Amazing just how much lighter a proper setup makes any bass play. I can now pull my doubleslap tricks on this Ric (blasphemy!) and there's some nice fretnoise when digging in with a pick.

Pretty sweet stuff so far. l
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Looks very cool, Marco, congrats.
And don't worry about the "blasphemy", a 5-string Ric bass is sort of a blasphemy itself... LOL:p
 
I need a cheap, reliable, classic sounding versatile 5 string for the Ball Orchestra. As a backup for my Lakland 44-02. I’ve never had a passive J bass, so I’m kind of curious about it. I will remove or change the pickguard, never had a bass with pickguard and it looks cheap to me

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aguacollas said:
I need a cheap, reliable, classic sounding versatile 5 string for the Ball Orchestra. As a backup for my Lakland 44-02. I’ve never had a passive J bass, so I’m kind of curious about it. I will remove or change the pickguard, never had a bass with pickguard and it looks cheap to me

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What about a second hand Swamp Ash Warwick Corvette 5 BO ? It has both active and passive….
 
Update on the Gibson Explorer Bass-- last week we we got all the hardware stripped, including a cheap plastic nut installed with Gorilla glue by a previous owner, and made sure the new Gold Schaller bridge would intonate like the original (also Schaller but custom-made for this model in 1985 with slightly longer dimensions). Also received the custom-made brass pickup rings (Dave Wescott of Fretsonline) and did some minor routing to accommodate the ears for the new pickup mounting screws. My luthier friend will make a new bone nut to replace the original brass one that was missing.

I dropped the bass off with Ron Pace of Pace Guitar Repair in Houston, TX to level the body wood which had been unevenly sanded and gouged, prime it from headstock on down with polyurethane due to wood stain (probably applied by the same guy who gouged it), and apply topcoats of Alpine White lacquer with a final clear coat. And last, but not least a new gold Gibson decal on the headstock.

And, these arrived after doing a fair amount of research and commissioning Kenny Davis of Philadelphia Luthier Supply to custom label these pearlescent trussrod covers with "Beauty" which is the persona of whoever us will be wielding the final product as bassist for the upcoming project--

Their standard format is the black Gibson T1 blanks but I asked if they would do a white or pearlescent one with gold lettering (which is painted). They said sure, but send two blanks in case the have issues working with a different material.

Kenny wasn't sure about the more delicate English 157BT font coming out noticeable enough, so he did the second blank in the standard Gibson Brush Script--

The both came out good, not bad for 11 USD plus shipping- here you see the Brush Script-

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And here you see the English 157BT

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Having received them, I prefer the finer English 157BT font, not needing for the lettering to be highly noticeable --

The finishing job make take 2-4 months given Ron's current work load and the lengthy nature of a refinishing process--

Then it's in with the new gold hardware and bone nut--

But they say, good things come to those who wait, and I'm not exactly "bassless", at least not in the musical instrument department--
 
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ectoflanger said:
Update on the Gibson Explorer Bass-- last week we we got all the hardware stripped, including a cheap plastic nut installed with Gorilla glue by a previous owner, and made sure the new Gold Schaller bridge would intonate like the original (also Schaller but custom-made for this model in 1985 with slightly longer dimensions). Also received the custom-made brass pickup rings (Dave Wescott of Fretsonline) and did some minor routing to accommodate the ears for the new pickup mounting screws. My luthier friend will make a new bone nut to replace the original brass one that was missing.

I dropped the bass off with Ron Pace of Pace Guitar Repair in Houston, TX to level the body wood which had been unevenly sanded and gouged, prime it from headstock on down with polyurethane due to wood stain (probably applied by the same guy who gouged it), and apply topcoats of Alpine White lacquer with a final clear coat. And last, but not least a new gold Gibson decal on the headstock.

And, these arrived after doing a fair amount of research and commissioning Kenny Davis of Philadelphia Luthier Supply to custom label these pearlescent trussrod covers with "Beauty" which is the persona of whoever us will be wielding the final product as bassist for the upcoming project--

Their standard format is the black Gibson T1 blanks but I asked if they would do a white or pearlescent one with gold lettering (which is painted). They said sure, but send two blanks in case the have issues working with a different material.

Kenny wasn't sure about the more delicate English 157BT font coming out noticeable enough, so he did the second blank in the standard Gibson Brush Script--

The both came out good, not bad for 11 USD plus shipping- here you see the Brush Script-

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And here you see the English 157BT

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Having received them, I prefer the finer English 157BT font, not needing for the lettering to be highly noticeable --

The finishing job make take 2-4 months given Ron's current work load and the lengthy nature of a refinishing process--

Then it's in with the new gold hardware and bone nut--

But they say, good things come to those who wait, and I'm not exactly "bassless", at least not in the musical instrument department--
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I also think the thinner script is the one to go with. Definitely more "angelic" looking. That bass is shaping up to be a real beauty!
 
kimgee said:
I also think the thinner script is the one to go with. Definitely more "angelic" looking. That bass is shaping up to be a real beauty!
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It's a white bass, with a white headstock, and a white truss rod cover.. the thinner one just might disappear as it does not stand out from the white as well as it would a darker colour....
 
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