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Headless?

#41
I never understood what was the big deal with getting double ball strings? It's a better system for a bridge tuner, and I've never had any trouble getting them in the alloy or guages I like (GHS Stainless .030-.090 Extra Lite). I bought an adapter for traditional string use, but it relied on set screws to hold the strings in at the nut end, which bites into the string core, so they tend to break. I have literally never had a double ball string break on me. Here's my old XP2 with a new mahogany body I just finished about a month ago:
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#43
Yeah, I brought the first Rickenberger to Bill after my first build. Its on his web page, its the plain single p/u one. I had him build a double pickup later also.
His work and prices are/were excellent. and yes I believe he's retired for the most part, but you never know.
Gilmourisgod said:
Yeah, he is a nice guy. He gave me some great free repair advice when a couple of the neck bolts got loose on my neck. His Rickenbergers are just too cool. Last I heard he is semi-retired but still does the occasional build.
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#45
Drdav14
Sweet! I remember that one from Bills website. I was originally planning on building a Rickenberger body, but decided to try my hand at a design based on an Alembic shape. What is your body made of, looks almost like cherry laminated over mahogany? Did your neck come with a four bolt pattern? Mine has five, and two of them had threaded brass inserts that were coming out of the neck heel. Bill showed me how to make a template to locate the bolts to re-bed the inserts in epoxy. I guess that's a fairly common problem in older necks.
 
#46
The top is Maple (following a Rick) and the back is Butternut. Yeah Bill would QC all the parts I sent to him that were used, and bring them up to standards. Great guy. I was lucky enough to have some business meetings in Montreal and contacted Bill and went to his house/shop and chilled with him for a few hours and talked bass/Steinbergers. He was very gracious and knowledgable.
Need more like him.
 
#51
TolerancEJ said:
Considering the Headless Club is currently on page 23 of members, I'd say there is still interest in them.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/headless-club-580919/index23.html

There are a few models I would love to own:
Zon Vinny 6
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Oh hey, that's my bass!

Sure headlesses are useful.

I'm not from the West and wasn't around most of the 80's, so headless basses don't have the same connotations for me as it does for some.

On the other hand, I can restring my bass at home, pack it into a ELECTRIC GUITAR bag, drive down to church and not need to tune up. That's pretty nice.
 

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