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SPECTOR® Club - Part 50

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#521
grendle said:
jackson, fender, and BC rich did that with the USA neckplates too. some still do i believe. had pressed to find and tell a USA jackson from an import sometimes.
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BC Rich had its import distribution warehouse in NJ for many of those years, and several of the people who worked at Kramer did work there as well.

Not saying they did anything, but all of those guys were copying each other. Heck, when you are selling millions of dollars worth of pointy headstocks, why not use the same successful formula?
 
#522
cjmodulus said:
^ did everyone have hair like that in the 80's? :hiding:
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All the way on the left, Guilty as charged...:hiding:

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#525
I think they way it worked was the neck plate was for the company ( USA) or something like that. who knew. that was back in the day.

TRichardsbass said:
BC Rich had its import distribution warehouse in NJ for many of those years, and several of the people who worked at Kramer did work there as well.

Not saying they did anything, but all of those guys were copying each other. Heck, when you are selling millions of dollars worth of pointy headstocks, why not use the same successful formula?
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#527
grendle said:
yep, had to have the hair to get the girls! :bassist:
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Ok, I will admit I am not proud of this, but..... If you look at that picture, you can see our second guitarist in the pic (playing a Carvin V220-talk about the 80's). Anyway, we made him get extensions to join the band. I remember how happy he was when his hair had grown enough to take them out!
 
#528
Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass :D

Any advice? Thanks :)
 
#529
Profania_bass said:
Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass :D

Any advice? Thanks :)
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They do pull off - takes a good amount of force though. I was scared the first time too. Pull man, pull! :)
 
#531
Profania_bass said:
Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass :D

Any advice? Thanks :)
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Take a cloth. Put it under the bell of the knob. Wrap cloth around knob. Twist cloth like you're ringing it out. Pull.
 
#532
Profania_bass said:
Hi guys.. I don't know how you are gonna take this but I am kiiiinda disliking these knobs on the Euro. I like a simple look, and these okastic knobs with the dots are just not doing it for me. I want to replace them with simpler metal knobs, is there an easy way of getting them off? I tried pulling but I was scared to break something on my nice new bass :D

Any advice? Thanks :)
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Be careful I ruined a pot on my euro doing this........:hmm:
 
#535
My Coda 5 Deluxe arrived 3 hours ago but I had to be snapped back into realty and take some quick photos. The Coda's real color is not captured by the camera. It has a pearl luminescent copper green hue to it in the light that the camera doesn't catch, except a tiny bit on the lower horn at the tip on 1 picture. It's an overcast and spitting snow day. The strings are set super low to the neck, the neck's thickness front to back is super thin! much like my former Forte 5 or even thinner, I'll take neck measurements when I go put the GHS Precision Flats custom's on and send the measurements to Patrick. Very fast neck! It's an oiled neck. :D This Coda 5 Deluxe definitely says "High Quality" big time!!! :bassist::hyper::D Enjoy the photos!
 
#537
iceboxbass said:
My Coda 5 Deluxe arrived 3 hours ago but I had to be snapped back into realty and take some quick photos. The Coda's real color is not captured by the camera. It has a pearl luminescent copper green hue to it in the light that the camera doesn't catch, except a tiny bit on the lower horn at the tip on 1 picture. It's an overcast and spitting snow day. The strings are set super low to the neck, the neck's thickness front to back is super thin! much like my former Forte 5 or even thinner, I'll take neck measurements when I go put the GHS Precision Flats custom's on and send the measurements to Patrick. Very fast neck! It's an oiled neck. :D This Coda 5 Deluxe definitely says "High Quality" big time!!! :bassist::hyper::D Enjoy the photos!
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Damn...
 
#539
iceboxbass said:
My Coda 5 Deluxe arrived 3 hours ago but I had to be snapped back into realty and take some quick photos. The Coda's real color is not captured by the camera. It has a pearl luminescent copper green hue to it in the light that the camera doesn't catch, except a tiny bit on the lower horn at the tip on 1 picture. It's an overcast and spitting snow day. The strings are set super low to the neck, the neck's thickness front to back is super thin! much like my former Forte 5 or even thinner, I'll take neck measurements when I go put the GHS Precision Flats custom's on and send the measurements to Patrick. Very fast neck! It's an oiled neck. :D This Coda 5 Deluxe definitely says "High Quality" big time!!! :bassist::hyper::D Enjoy the photos!
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Congrats Mike!!! WOW!!! :eek: That thing is SUPER SEXY!!!! :bassist::bassist:
 
#540
cjmodulus said:
Haha, based on all the posts it would appear so. I did miss out on a decade of great music though- queensryche, racer X, etc. would have bee awesome to have seen those groups back in their prime!
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and tons more. but they were getting cloned and that's why it died. but great music nonetheless. especially racer x. no one sounded like them, because no one could ;)
 
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