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Kubicki club?
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where are you based? are you interested in a mint condition black post Fender 2000 Ex Factor with original case?
See pics at this link: http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/xt660/Kubicki Ex Factor/
Contact me by pm if interested. I am based in London England
im gonna say something really weird but this has happened to me for a fact in my own travel experiences especially within the US and Canada...and on more than one occasion.
we all know the US and their strict baggage handling(TSA) proceudures where baggage is not supposed to be locked and stuff....which is great really... its for our own security after all... however i have noticed on more than 2 or 3 occasions when I checked in my hard shell guitar case (with the guitar in off course) when it arrived at the next destination it had a TSA card inside indicating that my hard case was opened and inspected... which is fine.... but what i also very clearly noticed was that the electronics compartment at the back of my bass was DEFINATELY opened and checked and screwed shut again(and not very well).... and how would i know this... well quite simply because i played the guitar the previous night at a gig(which ended 5 hours before that flight) and i make it a habit to thoroughly examine my guitar after each gig before i pack it and travel again.... so how would one explain me finding a couple of screws on the back plate of my guitar loose... and i mean dangling loose... almost about to fall off....pl bear in mind the guitar electronics have a big circuit board and two pickups lots or wires and two 9volt batteries which i assume can cause some amount of suspision. to make things worse a wire which was soldered the board was broken at the solder. i figured thsi out later at the next gig as there was no highs coming out of my preamp inspite of turning up the pots %
So ever since those incidents i always carry my guitar in a softcase onboard with me.
dont believe me....i can imagine ..it is kinda hard to beleive..
well on one more occasion...one rare occasion when i put my digitech vocalist live4 processor in my check in personal baggage... at the next destination sure enough my baggage had a TSA tag in there and to my disbelief a screw from the top panel of the processor was missing and this screw was one that had to be opened with a alan key.... which i donot carry... well screws dont really unscrew themselves do they....
so i am simply wondering if sirmoogs guitar here was opened up and checked as it has two big pickups a pretty big electronic preamp 2 batteries in there which might arrouse suspicion.. and when it was shut it obviously wasnt done in the way a bass would be set up...hence the saddles and picups all being high and stuff.. looking at those pictures it is practically impossible to beleive that PHil would set up a guitar with the saddles and pickups looking like they have just be dropped in there and screwed on a couple of times...
that my 2 cents.... call me mad... but ive been there so i know what ive seen happen to my own gear...
adrian
we all know the US and their strict baggage handling(TSA) proceudures where baggage is not supposed to be locked and stuff....which is great really... its for our own security after all... however i have noticed on more than 2 or 3 occasions when I checked in my hard shell guitar case (with the guitar in off course) when it arrived at the next destination it had a TSA card inside indicating that my hard case was opened and inspected... which is fine.... but what i also very clearly noticed was that the electronics compartment at the back of my bass was DEFINATELY opened and checked and screwed shut again(and not very well).... and how would i know this... well quite simply because i played the guitar the previous night at a gig(which ended 5 hours before that flight) and i make it a habit to thoroughly examine my guitar after each gig before i pack it and travel again.... so how would one explain me finding a couple of screws on the back plate of my guitar loose... and i mean dangling loose... almost about to fall off....pl bear in mind the guitar electronics have a big circuit board and two pickups lots or wires and two 9volt batteries which i assume can cause some amount of suspision. to make things worse a wire which was soldered the board was broken at the solder. i figured thsi out later at the next gig as there was no highs coming out of my preamp inspite of turning up the pots %
So ever since those incidents i always carry my guitar in a softcase onboard with me.
dont believe me....i can imagine ..it is kinda hard to beleive..
well on one more occasion...one rare occasion when i put my digitech vocalist live4 processor in my check in personal baggage... at the next destination sure enough my baggage had a TSA tag in there and to my disbelief a screw from the top panel of the processor was missing and this screw was one that had to be opened with a alan key.... which i donot carry... well screws dont really unscrew themselves do they....
so i am simply wondering if sirmoogs guitar here was opened up and checked as it has two big pickups a pretty big electronic preamp 2 batteries in there which might arrouse suspicion.. and when it was shut it obviously wasnt done in the way a bass would be set up...hence the saddles and picups all being high and stuff.. looking at those pictures it is practically impossible to beleive that PHil would set up a guitar with the saddles and pickups looking like they have just be dropped in there and screwed on a couple of times...
that my 2 cents.... call me mad... but ive been there so i know what ive seen happen to my own gear...
adrian
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LOVE the pink Kubicki! And that you bought it brand new - you ROCK! I had a used one for sale in my hands in the early 90's and would have bought it on the spot but I had just bought a black '86! I sent it to Phil and he put on a lined fretless neck on - Kubicki's make for awesome fretless basses! And on that colour - Phil told me told me it was a late 50's Desoto (car) colour. Most likely his nod to Fenders shell pink.
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I currently don't own one of Phil's basses but have owned a few over the years. The 1st one I played I fell in love with everything Kubicki. I had a black '86, a sonic blue FCS and a black FCS unlined fretless. All Ex-Factors. Sadly I needed to sell them, but did create a hybrid fretless in the late 90's using his neck & bridge tuners. I call it my Factorbird.
It's a T-bird like Koa body and it's gone through a few manifestations in the electronics dept over the years. First w/EMG P-style pu's/electronics, then these Wilkinson buckers, and now I currently have it set up w/G&L L-2000 MDF pu's and the L-2000 preamp. (best and final mod)
As a side note (and please don't send out hate mail when you see it) I used the black FCS body to create a Fender-like hybrid that I called the J-Factor. It's had passive Seymour Duncan pu's, a 70's style (Allparts Fender authorized) Jazz neck w/a redefined headstock w/Hipshot drop-D, a custom alder insert/platform (in place of the Factor tuner/bridge) supporting a (34" scale length) standard Fender bridge. I dulled the gloss off the contours to differentiate his lines (always loved the way he did those kinds of finishes) and used J-style black plastic control knobs. Nothing on the body was altered in any way - it could be built back into a Factor if need be. It's well balanced and although it doesn't have the sonic brilliance of a Kubicki, it sounds good.
I don't know if I can be considered a candidate for this club, but I definitely am a devotee of Phil's vision and continue to sing his praises.
It's a T-bird like Koa body and it's gone through a few manifestations in the electronics dept over the years. First w/EMG P-style pu's/electronics, then these Wilkinson buckers, and now I currently have it set up w/G&L L-2000 MDF pu's and the L-2000 preamp. (best and final mod)
As a side note (and please don't send out hate mail when you see it) I used the black FCS body to create a Fender-like hybrid that I called the J-Factor. It's had passive Seymour Duncan pu's, a 70's style (Allparts Fender authorized) Jazz neck w/a redefined headstock w/Hipshot drop-D, a custom alder insert/platform (in place of the Factor tuner/bridge) supporting a (34" scale length) standard Fender bridge. I dulled the gloss off the contours to differentiate his lines (always loved the way he did those kinds of finishes) and used J-style black plastic control knobs. Nothing on the body was altered in any way - it could be built back into a Factor if need be. It's well balanced and although it doesn't have the sonic brilliance of a Kubicki, it sounds good.
I don't know if I can be considered a candidate for this club, but I definitely am a devotee of Phil's vision and continue to sing his praises.
I currently don't own one of Phil's basses but have owned a few over the years. The 1st one I played I fell in love with everything Kubicki. I had a black '86, a sonic blue FCS and a black FCS unlined fretless. All Ex-Factors. Sadly I needed to sell them, but did create a hybrid fretless in the late 90's using his neck & bridge tuners. I call it my Factorbird.
It's a T-bird like Koa body and it's gone through a few manifestations in the electronics dept over the years. First w/EMG P-style pu's/electronics, then these Wilkinson buckers, and now I currently have it set up w/G&L L-2000 MDF pu's and the L-2000 preamp. (best and final mod)
It's not something that would suit me but it's incredibly unique and very cool. And I bet it completely solves the neck dive that plagues so many T-Birds. Well done.
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thanks man, I just started out flinching because I know how brand/maker zealots can get all wiggy over such. Like you, I try to judge everything in this arena from the standpoint of intent, design, execution and function. I love the Kubicki and feel his design is truly (modern) classic, in the same manor a Fender P or J is (old school) classic. It's all good.
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thanks - yes, no T-bird prone neck dive and I'm pretty certain there's not another one like it anywhere. It is the love child of owning/playing Kubicki Factors and T-birds and digging both. I wanted to show Phil in person but he moved to the east coast! Hard to say what he'd think.
I got the '01 tobacco burst Ex Factor today and I'm beating myself up a little for waiting so long to get another one. Phil solved all the problems that annoy me with most basses like balance, input jack placement, legible side dots, wide versatility etc. Unlike every other bass I've ever bought online this one feels like a real keeper.
The only thing I need to tweak is that in the E position the string clasp pushes the string over slightly and makes the spacing at the nut a couple of mm tighter than with the open D. Seems like thin washers between the clasp and headstock would solve it but if there's a better solution I'm all ears. It almost seems like it's missing a stock washer.
Also I've never seen an Ex Factor with veneer on the back of the headstock like this one has. The serial number is stamped into it so I know it's not a mod. Check it out.
The only thing I need to tweak is that in the E position the string clasp pushes the string over slightly and makes the spacing at the nut a couple of mm tighter than with the open D. Seems like thin washers between the clasp and headstock would solve it but if there's a better solution I'm all ears. It almost seems like it's missing a stock washer.
Also I've never seen an Ex Factor with veneer on the back of the headstock like this one has. The serial number is stamped into it so I know it's not a mod. Check it out.
Thank you for that. It certainly looks like Phil's stamp numbers to me. It looks like a chocolate covered banana!
As with a lot of pictures of the Factor I've seen on this forum, I can't help by notice some wear and tear on the bottom of the neck around the G string from all the string popping people have subjected the bass to. I'm already noticing some very minor scratch type marks on mine from all the intense playing.
I was wondering if that could be avoided by covering the area with some material or... (insert idea here)
I was wondering if that could be avoided by covering the area with some material or... (insert idea here)
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