Recent content by ric426

From a manufacturing standpoint on a $750 bass, I'd think it's unlikely that it would be any kind of conventional inlay. It does have the look of a laser engraved loon filled in with colored epoxy. The scanning required could make series of straight lines like you see showing through the colored...

I burped a little as I read this thread...

Ya just have to wave your freak flag high!

Ooo, I like it! The red looks great! My first good bass was a '68 Telecaster bass, bought used in' 69. It was a beast. Weighed around 12 pounds (wasn't a problem when I was young and (sort of) stronger) and I swear the neck was a slightly reshaped telephone pole, but I loved it and it was...

The RW Jazz I had was one of the nicest Fender basses I've played (once I re-leveled the fretboard and refretted it. It had been butchered before I got it). The phrase is probably overused, but it felt like an old friend. If I was going to look for a Jazz bass, that's what I'd look for too. My...

By their rules, I was already "vintage" long before that bass was even made! I achieved heavy relic status a long time ago too. Born in '52. Talking to a kid working in a guitar store recently, he was impressed that I'd seen Hendrix live, twice. Kinda made my day.

In my entire vast collection, only my p bass is ready to go. The other half of the collection is getting new bridge pieces and currently is disassembled.

Musically, I got the impression that she's got a lot of talent, and with time and maturity, she could grow into an incredible musician, once she gets past the bombastic chops displays. I'm sure being a young woman in the music business and the Indian culture, she must feel a lot of pressure to...

The catch is, you have to wear the same outfit. In the same size.

These days I'd rather be impressed by pleasant, sometimes understated, soulfulness and taste. I like musicians who display their skills a little bit at a time, give you a sense that they got the chops, but they let it show gradually and put their stamp on it when the time is right. I just...

Had a EB/MM Sterling sunburst with matching headstock that looked great. They seem to do a good job with that paint scheme. Their Honeyburst is one of my all-time favorite finishes. Matching headstocks in general do a lot to enhance the tuning stability too! ;)

I'm just glad they don't make short scale basses (AFAIK). I'd be really tempted.

Maybe he was trying to adjust the balance on a strap and got carried away... Too much time playing it in the sauna? Alien microbes ate the glue?

Great color! If they still sold the Dub King model in orange, I'd already have one.

You could probably run the output of the two preamps together without a problem, but I would suggest providing a touch of isolation by putting a resistor (50k ohms or so) in series with each output before connecting them together. One of two possibilities could happen. A. It'll work fine. 2...