SPECTOR® Club - Part 50 - Page 27

TRichardsbass · #**521** 12-11-2012, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by grendle

jackson, fender, and BC rich did that with the USA neckplates too. some still do i believe. had pressed to find and tell a USA jackson from an import sometimes.

BC Rich had its import distribution warehouse in NJ for many of those years, and several of the people who worked at Kramer did work there as well.

Not saying they did anything, but all of those guys were copying each other. Heck, when you are selling millions of dollars worth of pointy headstocks, why not use the same successful formula?

TK4261 · #**522** 12-11-2012, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by cjmodulus

^ did everyone have hair like that in the 80's?

All the way on the left, Guilty as charged...

TinIndian · #**523** 12-11-2012, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by cjmodulus

^ did everyone have hair like that in the 80's?

Yep.

cjmodulus · #**524** 12-11-2012, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by grendle

yes

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Originally Posted by TinIndian

Yep.

Haha, based on all the posts it would appear so. I did miss out on a decade of great music though- queensryche, racer X, etc. would have bee awesome to have seen those groups back in their prime!

grendle · #**525** 12-11-2012, 12:04 PM

I think they way it worked was the neck plate was for the company ( USA) or something like that. who knew. that was back in the day.

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Originally Posted by TRichardsbass

BC Rich had its import distribution warehouse in NJ for many of those years, and several of the people who worked at Kramer did work there as well.

Not saying they did anything, but all of those guys were copying each other. Heck, when you are selling millions of dollars worth of pointy headstocks, why not use the same successful formula?

grendle · #**526** 12-11-2012, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by cjmodulus

Haha, based on all the posts it would appear so. I did miss out on a decade of great music though- queensryche, racer X, etc. would have bee awesome to have seen those groups back in their prime!

yep, had to have the hair to get the girls!

NOLA Bass · #**527** 12-11-2012, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by grendle

yep, had to have the hair to get the girls!

Ok, I will admit I am not proud of this, but..... If you look at that picture, you can see our second guitarist in the pic (playing a Carvin V220-talk about the 80's). Anyway, we made him get extensions to join the band. I remember how happy he was when his hair had grown enough to take them out!

Profania_bass · #**528** 12-11-2012, 12:58 PM

Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass

Any advice? Thanks

bunkaroo · #**529** 12-11-2012, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Profania_bass

Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass

Any advice? Thanks

They do pull off - takes a good amount of force though. I was scared the first time too. Pull man, pull!

worshiprocker · #**530** 12-11-2012, 01:03 PM

yup they pull off... I think bestbassgear.com has some knobs or there is always ebay.

**awilkie84** · #**531** 12-11-2012, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Profania_bass

Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass

Any advice? Thanks

Take a cloth. Put it under the bell of the knob. Wrap cloth around knob. Twist cloth like you're ringing it out. Pull.

brotherbassj · #**532** 12-11-2012, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Profania_bass

Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass

Any advice? Thanks

Be careful I ruined a pot on my euro doing this........

iceboxbass · #**533** 12-11-2012, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by NOLA Bass

"Pioneer", the precursor to the Forum!!! ; )

For everyone's amusement and to lighten the mood around here, enjoy a pic of me with the Kramer Forum. This is late 88 or early 89.

ebradfordrich · #**534** 12-11-2012, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by JPSBassist

Mine wasn't as pretty. I had a mullet from the deep fried south.
It was scary.

Then in the late 1990's I grew it out all one length.

What was I thinking?

I grew up in Jersey. In the late 80s.

My mullet was EPIC.

iceboxbass · #**535** 12-11-2012, 01:56 PM

My Coda 5 Deluxe arrived 3 hours ago but I had to be snapped back into realty and take some quick photos. The Coda's real color is not captured by the camera. It has a pearl luminescent copper green hue to it in the light that the camera doesn't catch, except a tiny bit on the lower horn at the tip on 1 picture. It's an overcast and spitting snow day. The strings are set super low to the neck, the neck's thickness front to back is super thin! much like my former Forte 5 or even thinner, I'll take neck measurements when I go put the GHS Precision Flats custom's on and send the measurements to Patrick. Very fast neck! It's an oiled neck.

This Coda 5 Deluxe definitely says "High Quality" big time!!!

Enjoy the photos!

iceboxbass · #**536** 12-11-2012, 01:59 PM

More pics

dukeisdog · #**537** 12-11-2012, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by iceboxbass

My Coda 5 Deluxe arrived 3 hours ago but I had to be snapped back into realty and take some quick photos. The Coda's real color is not captured by the camera. It has a pearl luminescent copper green hue to it in the light that the camera doesn't catch, except a tiny bit on the lower horn at the tip on 1 picture. It's an overcast and spitting snow day. The strings are set super low to the neck, the neck's thickness front to back is super thin! much like my former Forte 5 or even thinner, I'll take neck measurements when I go put the GHS Precision Flats custom's on and send the measurements to Patrick. Very fast neck! It's an oiled neck.

This Coda 5 Deluxe definitely says "High Quality" big time!!!

Enjoy the photos!

Damn...

sumgruuvz · #**538** 12-11-2012, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by JPSBassist

Mine wasn't as pretty. I had a mullet from the deep fried south.
It was scary.

Then in the late 1990's I grew it out all one length.

What was I thinking?

dude, you look like rob flynn from machine head in that pic. lol

**bclark812008** · #**539** 12-11-2012, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by iceboxbass

My Coda 5 Deluxe arrived 3 hours ago but I had to be snapped back into realty and take some quick photos. The Coda's real color is not captured by the camera. It has a pearl luminescent copper green hue to it in the light that the camera doesn't catch, except a tiny bit on the lower horn at the tip on 1 picture. It's an overcast and spitting snow day. The strings are set super low to the neck, the neck's thickness front to back is super thin! much like my former Forte 5 or even thinner, I'll take neck measurements when I go put the GHS Precision Flats custom's on and send the measurements to Patrick. Very fast neck! It's an oiled neck.

This Coda 5 Deluxe definitely says "High Quality" big time!!!

Enjoy the photos!

Congrats Mike!!! WOW!!!

That thing is SUPER SEXY!!!!

sumgruuvz · #**540** 12-11-2012, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cjmodulus

Haha, based on all the posts it would appear so. I did miss out on a decade of great music though- queensryche, racer X, etc. would have bee awesome to have seen those groups back in their prime!

and tons more. but they were getting cloned and that's why it died. but great music nonetheless. especially racer x. no one sounded like them, because no one could