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12-24-2010, 10:44 AM
|  | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | The Official Ball End Alignment OCD Club
VroomVroom, the king of OCD, got a bunch of us started doing the completely unnecessary (but oh-so-good-looking) practice of aligning the ball ends of our strings. And some of you may have been doing this on your own for years. But let's bow to the master and embrace your OCD!
1) VroomVroom
2) Rocket Music
3) JBFLA
4) BipSlapper
5) Darkstrike
6) Ryan L.
7) mwbonsall
8) JOME77
9) bobunit  
Last edited by RocketMusic : 12-31-2010 at 08:23 AM.
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12-24-2010, 11:03 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Alrighty! 
That's my LG for one.
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12-24-2010, 11:07 AM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Bah - all my pics were taken before I became infected. I'll have to shoot some fresh ones on Monday.
Bill - your balls are different colors. That's not nearly the level of OCD we're after.   |
12-24-2010, 11:09 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic  Bah - all my pics were taken before I became infected. I'll have to shoot some fresh ones on Monday.
Bill - your balls are different colors. That's not nearly the level of OCD we're after. | It's one of the reasons I stopped using Daddarios(outside of Chromes), that colour coating really mutes the tone. 
Oh, and looking at the pic now, it's old enough that the string spacing is still 18.3mm, both my big R's are set to 17.5 since I orderd the Gadow.
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12-24-2010, 11:17 AM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | There ya go! That's some OCD. |
12-24-2010, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Warner Robins GA | | I won't join but will subscribe to the thread.
This could be good material for a new A&E Reality show.
"From the producers of Intervention and Hoarders comes a new reality show where OCD and Rock and Roll collide. Ball - Enders!" |
12-24-2010, 11:24 AM
|  | Roscoe FANatic | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jupiter FLA | | | I'm there
OK, this will have to do for now. I'll put up a better pic when I get it. 
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Roscoes LG3000(#4694), LG3005(#4895), LG 3000FL(#6244), SKB3006(#4654)
6.0 Shuttle, ShuttleMax 12.0
ACME Low B-2(x2)
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12-24-2010, 12:11 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Nice, Jim! Man, that top is incredible... not to mention how neat and orderly are your balls! (yep, this thread should be fun for all the double entendre artists out there)
1) VroomVroom
2) Rocket Music
3) JBFLA
4) BipSlapper
5) Darkstrike
6) Ryan L.
Last edited by RocketMusic : 12-27-2010 at 01:48 PM.
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12-24-2010, 12:18 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Sorry about this, but a quick OT tangent, from an earlier discussion, about picking out the top for JBFLA's bass, we were mentioning how important the wood top picked was, that it can seriously effect the colour of the finish.
Well, here's your Cobalt Blue. 
Here's mine, which is also Cobalt Blue...
Never mind the ball-ends, eh, this is it "as delivered". So that's Greg's fault, or Adams.....  
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12-24-2010, 12:50 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | I can't remember if I restrung that one with SITs or not... that was a LOT of Roscoes ago! But I was definitely NOT paying attention to the ball ends at that time, so I'll take the blame... for shame, for shame  |
12-24-2010, 12:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | |
12-24-2010, 12:55 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic I can't remember if I restrung that one with SITs or not... that was a LOT of Roscoes ago! But I was definitely NOT paying attention to the ball ends at that time, so I'll take the blame... for shame, for shame | Naww, this was well before you got big into the SIT's.
Tell ya the truth, I know the whole story, but couldn't help the dig.
Adam has told me, ages ago, it had the same set of DR Lowrider Nickles that it had on when ya'll had that big Superbowl party.
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12-24-2010, 01:03 PM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | Here's a pic of the thuya burl SKB3006 I owned a few years ago. Proof that I've been doing this for a long time.......... 
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Roscoe Century 3005 #6091/Roscoe Century 3005-J #6264/Roscoe Century 3005-JM #6393 (under construction)/Eden WT1205/ Eden D610XST Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Yeah.
I suck, AND I'm dumb. | |
12-24-2010, 01:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | Do we get extra points (or meds) if we have the exact same number of wraps on all the posts too?
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It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
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12-24-2010, 01:15 PM
| | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | And going back further, here's a pic of the madrone burl topped SKB3006 (nicknamed by the guys at Roscoe as "The Brain"). 
And even further back, my old Modulus Quantum 6 (yes, they are aligned differently, but they are STILL aligned....) 
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Roscoe Century 3005 #6091/Roscoe Century 3005-J #6264/Roscoe Century 3005-JM #6393 (under construction)/Eden WT1205/ Eden D610XST Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Yeah.
I suck, AND I'm dumb. |
Last edited by Ryan L. : 12-24-2010 at 01:18 PM.
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12-24-2010, 01:26 PM
|  | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | 72 degree twist. You've been warned |
12-24-2010, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User
Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | My balls are straight and shriveled, but not aligned.  So yet another club I can't be a member of. 
God Bless, Ray
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1 Peter 1:13 Quote: |
Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ray is correct! | |
12-24-2010, 03:01 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nostatic 72 degree twist. You've been warned | "Would you like me to tell your mother?"  |
12-24-2010, 03:47 PM
| | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | 
Modulus Quantum 5 (Not a Roscoe, but who can stop me!?? - oh yeah, Mods )
...and this (most of you have seen): 
And the Fretless Century (blurred of course): 
..I know, I don't have a life at the moment, too much goofing around with basses and poor photo skills. Now I have to go wash my hands ! |
12-25-2010, 12:32 AM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | I love it! Greg, you're absolutely the man.
Attention all bassists of the solar federation...we have assumed control.
And remember, it's not OCD...it's CDO. Which is like OCD, but in the proper alphabetical order. 
Last edited by VroomVroom : 12-25-2010 at 04:01 PM.
Reason: Following instructions and adding a pic
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