Let's get this off to a good start!

ICBM

monquixote

It's straight links or HTML rather than BBCode on here.

Sporky

As soon as I saw the discussion title I knew what'd be in it.

I feel obliged to  post this in response.

http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/stingray.jpg

monquixote

ICBM

monquixote said:

It's straight links or HTML rather than BBCode on here.

Ta!

snakemanStoo

Do we have to comment on beat 1 or 4? :-?

OilCityPickups

Love the Rick ICBM ... as you will see from the foot of my 'Pickups' post I just did a rewind for one of dem-dare-tings recently. The pickups on the new ones are really poorly built compared to the old ones ... sound good ... but a bit of corner cutting seems to have been going on.

ICBM

TheGuitarWeasel said:

Love the Rick ICBM ... as you will see from the foot of my 'Pickups' post I just did a rewind for one of dem-dare-tings recently. The pickups on the new ones are really poorly built compared to the old ones ... sound good ... but a bit of corner cutting seems to have been going on.

I agree. I still find it incomprehensible that on such a professional quality instrument, there is no form of hum cancelling either - its almost the only bass you can buy apart from the '51 P-Bass reissue with none. The last one I had was a modern 4003, and I flipped the magnet on the bridge pickup and rewired it to give RWRP. That works well, but obviously only on the middle position and with both pickups at the same volume.

This one I acquired in a very poor state with all the wrong electrics, so I decided to upgrade it at the same time as fixing it. The neck pickup is a 1980s Rickenbacker HB2 humbucker wired in parallel to give about a 3.5K total impedance, and sounds similar to a Rick Toaster pickup. The bridge pickup is a lucky find - an old Kent Armstrong ceramic-mag humbucker from the neck position of an Eggle Broadway guitar! It's also about 7K and was physically a perfect fit in the 4001 cavity... I had to drill the baseplate but that had already been done for the Bartolini J-Bass pickup bodge that was in it before, so not an issue for me. It sounds fantastic and is almost hum-free - which matters a lot for me, since I usually use overdriven or fuzz sounds.

OilCityPickups

Fancy a Rick again myself ... I really only 'thump the tool of ignorance' for recording these days, but always loved the feel. I took loads of measurements on the last rewind, so the Oily demo bass (a dodgy P Bass copy) will probably sport some sort of Rick influenced pickups at some point in the near future.

rpr

Here's mine- 80's Jap Vox. so heavy it has its own gravitation pull, neck like a tree trunk.could possibly be classed as a dangerous weapon in the right (wrong) hands. Old Dimarzio P bass pickup, strings must be  15+ year old. I love it! 

Bucket

http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/profile_mojo_data/9/3/0/4/930457/pics/_c899583_image_0.jpg

ESchap

My old warhorse from 1972/73.  Had all its original and useless pickup split / series / parallel circuits removed; extremely versatile bass with just two volume a master tone and a three-way switch.  Hipshot bridge makes a huge difference to tone and sustain versus the original Gibson 3 point.  Remarkably light for all maple at 8lb 3oz.

Lorne

Already put in the guitar secion, but here it goes here too

Lorne

And (missing from pictures is my Ironbird, which My luthier must like more than I do, he's had it about 3 YEARS)

stickyfiddle

Jaaazzzz....Nice.

And under £100!! 

Paul_C

surfguy13

Very nice Gordon......but what is it?????



ESchap said:

My old warhorse from 1972/73.  Had all its original and useless pickup split / series / parallel circuits removed; extremely versatile bass with just two volume a master tone and a three-way switch.  Hipshot bridge makes a huge difference to tone and sustain versus the original Gibson 3 point.  Remarkably light for all maple at 8lb 3oz.

ESchap

Hi Guy, good to see you on here,  It's and L9-S "Ripper". 

surfguy13

Likewise Gordon!

I wondered if it was a Ripper, for some reason the body looked a little different.  Is it quite neck heavy?  Just wondering as my old EB-3 was slightly neck heavy and it has a maple neck like the Ripper

surfguy13

Don't seem to be able to load a photo as I normally would from Image Shack?  Used the 'embed an image'  (for forums) link, which is what I normally use, but when I post it the photo doesn't load, only the link.  Hmmmmm........?

rpr

Had the same problem using Photobucket, try pasting the direct link- seems to have worked for me.