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Renaissance/Turner Basses Club

#1,382
T-boneParish said:
Yes, I saw this pop up on Reverb today and seriously considered buying it. Looked fascinating. When I came back this afternoon, it had been snapped up. For the sake of my finances and peace at home, it's probably good that the temptation is gone. Cool instrument!
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Happy to have removed that temptation from your view.
 
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T-boneParish said:
@mikeGJ congratulations! What's the deal with the neck? I didn't go so far as to ask the seller, but I'm curious. Is it an aftermarket neck that Rick bolted to the custom body, or did he fabricate the neck to make it look like a Fender product?
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Probably a neck Rick got with a Fender headstock. I can't see why Rick would've made a neck from scratch without our headstock shape...
 
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Anzi said:
ok if this truly is a super early proto Electroline that's cool as hell. Gonna do some digging within the company to learn more about this
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@Anzi At first, I thought it was just a Fender neck mounted to an early Electroline body but take a look at the way the fretboard floats over the body (see photo below). That's an RT thing, not a Fender thing.

I'm looking forward to hearing what you find out! (I love history like this)

Electroline Early Proto Body.jpg
 
#1,388
porterbass said:
RT friends... Here's something I've never seen before:

An early Electroline with a Fender-style headstock. Seems like a piece of RT history from way back. Have any of you seen this before?

Pretty cool! This prompted me to go back and skim a couple of articles on Rick Turner's history and Alembic's history. I'm in awe every time I read all of this. Amazing stuff! I'm sure many of you feel this, but it really is an honor to own and play any of his instruments.

Rick Turner Custom frettless bass 1989 - Natural | Reverb

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Check out the names on the internal preamp (18V!!!):
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Timeline is right. This is about when Rick parted ways with Gibson West R&D, taking his Electroline pattern with him. When I got my early EL, the first thing I thought of when I studied the neck pocket was; this looks like a standard Fender rout, which made perfect sense for a tool guy like Rick.
Heel Pocket.jpeg


Thanks for posting!
 
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RVBASS said:
My Electroline bass has a small screw access hole on the back plate. Does anyone know what this screw adjusts? I’m thinking maybe output or tone level. Thanks
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My old red fretless had that too... it was access to a trimpot for something.

*(post 897 has pics)
 
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I keep forgetting we have factory support on the thread now...:facepalm:

Here was the control plate to EL-535-PMM, serial #05-2129
#05-2129 back.jpeg


...wondering if @Anzi might be able ask to tell us definitively what may have been the adjustment here? I remember that the preamp was mounted on the back of the plate, but I have no pictures of it. I don't recall messing with it the 8 years (or so) I was the caretaker of that one.

#07-2551 has no such access, but it's inner workings/fittings, even the control cluster are a generation newer.
#07-2551 back.jpeg
 
#1,397
Does anyone know why some Electrolines have holes with a screw directly behind the mag pickups and others don't? My PMM fretted doesn't have them but I see other PMMs that do.

(You can see a closeup of this in RVBass's photo just above in post #1392)

Electroline back.jpeg
 

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