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11-27-2007, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectBass  This offer expires in 90 days...  | Nice recovery.  |
11-27-2007, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Eugene, Oregon | | | JOME77 -- Thanks for your very helpful reply.
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11-27-2007, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectBass This offer expires in 90 days... | Drats, my evil plot has been foiled by those medling kids and their dog!!! I guess I can throw away the PDF I printed off from this forum to use at a future date.  Well Gard, there goes your 50 free Sushi dinners. I was planning on cutting you in.
Hey James, do you remember the offer I made a year or so ago when you were giving away a Roscoe? The offer still stands, I will tattoo "The Perfect Bass" Logo on my butt if you will give me a Roscoe bass.  |
11-27-2007, 02:34 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Georgia | |
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Originally Posted by TCube JOME77 -- Thanks for your very helpful reply. | No problem! 
Hope you get that Roscoe playing like BUTTER! |
11-27-2007, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle, WA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ThePerfectBass Email me your name/mailing address offlist at james@theperfectbass.com and I'll see if we have a spare that we can mail you if you'd like.
Peace! |
Me?
Thanks for the offer! 
But I've got a boatload of allen wrenches around that I can dremel down no problem. It's just that I only want to try out a really minor tightening. But, without knowing what size to start with, it would take forever to cut one down, check it for fit, rinse, repeat.
So, while I really appreciate the offer; your gift of knowledge was all that I require. Ya' know, "teach a man to fish " and all that. |
11-28-2007, 05:51 AM
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Hey James, do you remember the offer I made a year or so ago when you were giving away a Roscoe? The offer still stands, I will tattoo "The Perfect Bass" Logo on my butt if you will give me a Roscoe bass. [/quote]
Okay! Perhaps you will understand if we don't want to see this. Not the finished art or the procedure on YouTube! |
11-28-2007, 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by CrashClint Hey James, do you remember the offer I made a year or so ago when you were giving away a Roscoe? The offer still stands, I will tattoo "The Perfect Bass" Logo on my butt if you will give me a Roscoe bass. | Okay! Perhaps you will understand if we don't want to see this. Not the finished art or the procedure on YouTube! | I thought I would put it on Christmas Cards this year.
Last edited by CrashClint : 11-28-2007 at 06:30 AM.
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11-28-2007, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by CrashClint I thought I would put it on Christmas Cards this year. | Your new nickname is "Grinch" 'cuz the thought of that just ruined Christmas for me... |
11-28-2007, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard Your new nickname is "Grinch" 'cuz the thought of that just ruined Christmas for me... | Just for you Gard.
No disrespect intended for The Perfect Bass for the placement of the logo, you guys are awesome in the deals you provide bass players.
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11-28-2007, 01:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | | HAHAH!! That's awesome Clint! I'm sure that'll end up all over the web in places we don't want it...but whatever... They say any press is good press right!?!
Here's a deal for you...get the tattoo FIRST and we'll get that Roscoe right out to you! Tomorrow...
(JIC, I am just kidding...do get the tattoo, but we will not send you a Roscoe for it. Well, maybe we can send you a Squier... heheheh...) |
11-28-2007, 02:03 PM
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11-28-2007, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by CrashClint Just for you Gard.
No disrespect intended for The Perfect Bass for the placement of the logo, you guys are awesome in the deals you provide bass players. |
That is indeed awesome Clint!  |
11-30-2007, 01:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: France | | Sorry to bother you men...
But back on topic, just to add a bit of infos.
Which ajustement should be generaly done at the change of seasons ?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that when winter come the nut must be tighted to compensate for the neck bowing.
And in spring/summer, it should be loosed to add some relief.
Is it correct ?
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11-30-2007, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Shiveringbass Sorry to bother you men...
But back on topic, just to add a bit of infos.
Which ajustement should be generaly done at the change of seasons ?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that when winter come the nut must be tighted to compensate for the neck bowing.
And in spring/summer, it should be loosed to add some relief.
Is it correct ? | Ludo -
I don't really consider the season change a reason to adjust the neck. I only do neck adjustments when they're necessary, for whatever reason - not just because it got cooler and drier.
For the record, on both of my basses, once the setup was to my liking, they haven't been touched - the fretless in almost 2 years, the fretted is approaching a year now. |
11-30-2007, 09:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: France | | Gard,
Well my bass is not yours unfortunatly but you already know that.
You've already heard about my particularly unstable neck and things haven't change.
At any important change in weather that neck move, and it goes particularly crazy when winter comes.
On the other hand, I totaly agree with you, my fretless seems to be much more stable and haven't needed any adjustment since its arrival, even after shipping through atlantic ocean via UPs. A quick tune and it was ready to go.
But the freted is just so unstable it makes me jalous of all those people who keep saying that Roscoes have one of the strongest neck. 
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11-30-2007, 09:59 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Ludo -
Well, we are working with wood here, and it will react. Sometimes almost imperceptibly, other times noticeably so. (For the record, I played a Zon Sonus Special 5 fretless for 5 years, and it also changed with the weather a bit, not enough to be a problem, but on hot days, you would get just a bit more relief in the neck! )
All I can tell you is that you'll have to adjust the neck when it needs to be adjusted. 
I've had those necks myself, and it's just part of the day to day caretaking on a bass sometimes. |
11-30-2007, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | | | Something to note... We've noticed that while the standard Roscoe neck is indeed incredibly stable, the "Wedge Neck" option seems to be even more stable than the standard neck.
In general, we see a small percentage of them needing just minor setup adjustments after they've been here a few weeks, but it seems that the Wedge option seems to react to temp and humidity even less than the standard neck...
So in addition to the added beauty of the wedge neck option, I believe there is a structural benefit to that upgrade as well!
Peace! |
12-02-2007, 04:58 AM
| | | | Hey Shiveringbass,
Just a line to let you know you're not alone.
I've had my Roscoe for over 3 years,
and I too, have had to adjust my Roscoe's truss rod
every winter and spring.
My Roscoe lives in my basement,
and it gets really cold down there in the winter.
The cold makes the maple contract so much,
I can feel the ends of the frets along the edge of the neck.
But it only takes a quarter turn rod adjustment,
to get the action back where I have it set.
I don't consider the neck unstable,
it's just reacting to an extreme temperature change. |
12-02-2007, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectBass This offer expires in 90 days... | Hey James, when LSU wins the championship, I will be looking for my Roscoe on Jan 4,2008. I think that falls within the 90 Days you gave me. I think I will take a Century V.
Hey Gard I was thinking of stopping by the shop on Dec. 7th to snap some pictures, I will pick out my wood choices at that time.  |
12-03-2007, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by CrashClint Hey James, when LSU wins the championship, I will be looking for my Roscoe on Jan 4,2008. I think that falls within the 90 Days you gave me. I think I will take a Century V.
Hey Gard I was thinking of stopping by the shop on Dec. 7th to snap some pictures, I will pick out my wood choices at that time. | I told him that was a BAD IDEA...
...however, they still have to beat OSU (which they SHOULD easily do) for the deal to be sealed...
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