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05-19-2009, 08:27 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | | My new (old) bass!
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Any thoughts on this beast? I was told late 1800's, and that's about it.
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05-19-2009, 08:41 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I like it. May we see more?
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05-19-2009, 08:43 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | Follow the link above the picture..
Here it is again: http://riceguitars.com/chris/ |
05-19-2009, 08:47 AM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | VERY NICE
Awesome photography. Artistically that's the most beautiful thing I've seen on TB today; functionally, my untrained senses smell *a lot of work*
I quite like your guitars, BTW. 
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05-19-2009, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | Hows the structural integrity? Looks gorgeous!
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
05-19-2009, 09:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | BTW, your rice custom guitars look killer. If I still played guitar, I'd buy one, if only for my namesake. Build some basses already! 
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
05-19-2009, 09:01 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | | Thanks!
I'm taking it to Classic Contrabass tomorrow morning for Michelle to go over. I figure a new bridge/fingerboard/endpin as a minimum, and probably some crack repairs (most of them are old repairs and appear stable). I considered doing some of it myself, but I can't fit it in my schedule right now. Better to let the bass expert have at it, I'll stick with guitars for now. |
05-19-2009, 09:08 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | | 50+ basses owned? Nice! I had to check, I've owned 30 that I can remember (I started playing in '94). |
06-03-2009, 11:29 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | | Repairs:
new fingerboard/nut
new bridge w/ aluminum adjusters
new soundpost
new strings (Obligatos)
new endpin
glue all 4 corner blocks
glue 2 small open seams
I think I'm going to get a Fishman Full Circle while I'm at it. I've had a Realist, a Bass Max, and a Bass Max/Golden Trinity. I never got along with the Golden Trinity, the Bass Max always seems compressed/artificial, and the Realist lacked clarity for me. From what I can tell, the Full Circle is the closest to what I'm looking for. Most of my recent playing is folk music through a mic/PA, the pickup is for louder jazz/rock gigs. |
06-04-2009, 07:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Central Indiana | | The images of the old bass were fantastic...now....how do you keep that white carpet so nice and clean? Surely you must go oriental, hence take off your clod hoppers and leave them at the front door? |
06-04-2009, 08:24 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | | It's not as clean as it looks...but yes, no shoes is the way my wife and I were both raised. The cat likes to puke and crap on the carpet, so Resolve for pet stains gets used often. |
06-27-2009, 05:49 AM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | And she's back! My wife named her Aurelia.  |
06-27-2009, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocket City Arkansas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Rice Chris And she's back! My wife named her Aurelia. | looking good from one former telecaster addict to another  |
06-28-2009, 02:33 PM
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Rice Custom Guitars, Inc | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Itasca IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Atomic looking good from one former telecaster addict to another | Your tele sits in the closet too?  |
06-28-2009, 11:09 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Rice Chris Your tele sits in the closet too? | Heck no, I've lent mine to a friend! |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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