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Playing a Rickenbacker made me hate Rickenbacker
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Ricks. Very inconsistent. Some arrive great, some not. That's why you keep looking.
Id still rock that bass!Mine has finish issues. :-(
Dunno. I guess I just go back far enough that things like finish flaws seem like part of the game. And I've learned to not to let myself get too crazy about things like that. But maybe that's because I'm not a collector. All my basses are players. And sooner or later they're going to get dinged or something - no matter how careful I am. You learn to live with it.
I've also never been offended by anything a maker did or didn't do to a bass I was trying out. If I didn't like it, I didn't buy it. I'd just hand it back and then go try something else. There's so much to choose from these days. And it's not like anybody is forcing you to buy something. If some brand's QC is slacking off, that's their problem, not mine. I'm not out to save the world when it comes to bass. All I want to do is occasionally buy one, and regularly play the ones I do own. Everything else is frosting AFAIC.
YMMV.
I've also never been offended by anything a maker did or didn't do to a bass I was trying out. If I didn't like it, I didn't buy it. I'd just hand it back and then go try something else. There's so much to choose from these days. And it's not like anybody is forcing you to buy something. If some brand's QC is slacking off, that's their problem, not mine. I'm not out to save the world when it comes to bass. All I want to do is occasionally buy one, and regularly play the ones I do own. Everything else is frosting AFAIC.
YMMV.
Well put. A nice, reasonable middle of the line approach to a perceived problem that doesn't really exist in the first place.
I hate Rickenbackers too.
Wait no I don't. I love my Rickenbacker!
Not sure I actually hate any bass guitars. I fear Mothman but that's different. But hate. Don't hate any instruments. I hate cancer and a few other things but not any musical instruments.
Wait no I don't. I love my Rickenbacker!
Not sure I actually hate any bass guitars. I fear Mothman but that's different. But hate. Don't hate any instruments. I hate cancer and a few other things but not any musical instruments.
Yeah really! I mean it's not like John Hall gets up in the morning and thinks "Now what can our company do to screw 40Hz over today, or make it so he foams at the mouth and spits blood." These companies crank things out. Mistakes occasionally get made. Sometimes the mistakes get fixed. And sometimes not. But the best bet is still just not buying something you think is going to become a problem for you. Why be a masochist? Life's short enough as it is.
Exactly, if you don't like it just walk away from it. If I go try a car at a car lot I'm not going to walk around trashing that car. I'd say I didn't like it but I wouldn't talk bad about it.
Funny you say that, my band's name is Masochist.
Funny you say that, my band's name is Masochist.
ROFLMAO!
Do you walk around with shirts that say: I've read Fifty Shades of Gray - and I've had every one of them done to me! - or something like that?
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
ROFLMAO!
How did you know?!
Wow easy fellas LOL
I DID say I loved mine did I not? ALSO I did say "I don't know IF they do this anymore" did I not? I assure you those lovely little manufacturing practices I commented on were alive and well in 76' And in my defense this "OP" bought my 76' 4001 in 81' from the original owner and has been with me ever since. It by far has seen the most battles SO I believe that shows some LOVE for the Ric, does it not?, just thought I'd share the same way frustrated parents would about their kids but STILL love em...Nice to see the dedication though, Chris Squire would be proud!!
I'm not sure if they still do this anymore BUT if you want a REAL treat, take off the pick guard and behold the absolute technical brilliance and prowess of them plunge diving into the body with a 1" endmill from the pickup cavities all the way to the PU toggle switch just for a 22 gage wire LOL I actually had the pleasure of ripping this poor rep at a NAMM show about that one!! And oh yes one has to also be in awe of what they call a "dual or double truss rod" which is one truss rod that snakes around underneath the fret board in a "U" shape occupying a rather loose cavity. Oh yes love em or hate em, the good news is they either work or they don't, the truss rod issue is rather notorius and if you have a bad one the strings look like telephone pole wires right from the start, run as fast as you can from that one regardless what the salesmen pitch is, for the record I have a 76' 4001 that works and I love it it although rather modified to say the least
Hmm.....Well, while the hot wire inside the neck pickup lead is 22 gauge, the lead itself is 1/8" thick, and runs in a channel only a little wider. Prior to the way they're done now, the channel was done with a 3/8" Forstner bit, so I don't know what's meant a "1" endmill". Rick basses have always had two completely separate truss rods that fit fairly snugly in their channels. I should know, cuz I've serviced a few of them (which is something I don't think you can do with any other bass).
