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#265,062
Chucky Stiletti said:
camera angle plays such a big role with NR shapes…..plus an excuse to post more……:D
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In studying your now white BaCH, I’m convinced it’s one from the first run. Not as much body contour. Lovely bass and the refin is spectacular. We need to get V’s with the Lull, yours with the Sidewinder and mine with the Gibson Reissue all together for a shootout. We could go on for hours….
 
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MCF said:
In studying your now white BaCH, I’m convinced it’s one from the first run. Not as much body contour. Lovely bass and the refin is spectacular. We need to get V’s with the Lull, yours with the Sidewinder and mine with the Gibson Reissue all together for a shootout. We could go on for hours….
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All with the same strings and amp of course.
 
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#265,065
JJR58 said:
Just lovin this!!!

And what’s the latest on the test bench there?
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still Erik's SVT, just gotta put it back in its case for pickup sometime next week......
@Miles_ONeal this is next…
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#265,066
Stealth57 said:
Call it Fun Friday. I thought there was a big shim in the lower neck pocket but it appears that Epi just slants the pocket. Also, why the center hole in the pocket? It doesn’t match any hardware location. Clean, new Power Steels, and a fresh setup.

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If you’re talking about the the hole drilled in the center of the neck pocket up on the vertical section, it’s the access point for the foot long drill bit they use to drill the pickup wire routes. It goes from the neck pocket to the neck pickup cavity and then on to the bridge pickup cavity. From there they drill a different hole connecting the bridge pickup cavity to the control cavity. This method eliminates the routed slot under the pickguard that your other bass (most likely a neck through) utilized as a wire pull station from the neck route to the control cavity.
 
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#265,067
BklynKen said:
All with the same strings and amp of course.
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Power Steels. An SVT through a fridge or similar sealed cab. And a Mesa TT 800 through a Subway or similar ported cab. No effects. Through the preamps. And then straight through the power sections (I know this can be done on the Mesa, I haven’t done it on an SVT… but I assume it can be done). Pick five bass lines of various genres. It would be a very fun day.
 
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#265,069
Engle said:
You can put a shim at either end of the pocket to adjust the bridge height, but it sounds like there is too much relief.
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Since I have no experience with degrees of shim, I did 2 business cards at the neck end and flattened the neck a bit more than John Carruthers recommends. Much better. Could use a bit more but I don’t want to go more than 2 cards. I’ll check with Stew Mac if they can translate degrees into 3-4 business cards. Good news is the intonation is dead on and only took a minute or two to dial that in.
 
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Stealth57 said:
Since I have no experience with degrees of shim, I did 2 business cards at the neck end and flattened the neck a bit more than John Carruthers recommends. Much better. Could use a bit more but I don’t want to go more than 2 cards. I’ll check with Stew Mac if they can translate degrees into 3-4 business cards. Good news is the intonation is dead on and only took a minute or two to dial that in.
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Buy the shims I gave you the link to. Don’t mess around with paper. You’ll get it dialed in.
 
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#265,077
Stealth57 said:
Business cards provide an easy estimate of what's needed. At $10 per shim, I am too cheap to order a bunch to try. I'll contact Stew Mac and ask what matches 1.1mm.
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The shims are tapered. You can increase and decrease angle accordingly. Don’t overthink it. And you paid next to nothing for the bass. You pay more driving that big rig of yours to Costco than what those shims cost.
 
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MCF said:
The shims are tapered. You can increase and decrease angle accordingly. Don’t overthink it. And you paid next to nothing for the bass. You pay more driving that big rig of yours to Costco than what those shims cost.
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Looks like the 0.5 degree shim gives pretty close to 1.1mm per their web page.
 
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That was for the current Gibson NRs.
D.M.N. said:
Yeah, I'd love to have an Alembic but the prices are bonkers. I'm happy to have scored my 8-string BecVar for the price I did, since the Alembics will likely never be in a price range I can justify. And sadly, same with the old T-birds, the NRs, when they do come up, seem to be $6-7k and up.



Point me to those!
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