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Post by RickW on Apr 7, 2024 14:06:04 GMT -5
Right. At this point I may shelve it.
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Post by RickW on Apr 7, 2024 12:33:23 GMT -5
I took it apart this morning, to see if there was a truss rod hidden in the neck joint. No such luck. Quite possible this hit the market before adjustable trust rods, or any kind of truss rods, were put in. Pulled the pickguard, and no indication, anywhere, of make or model, no serial numbers, nothing. A truly no name product.
I’m thinking that if I pull the frets, the slight wow in the neck won’t be as important. Any thoughts on fret removal, the easiest way to do it?
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Post by RickW on Apr 7, 2024 11:51:58 GMT -5
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Post by RickW on Apr 7, 2024 10:47:26 GMT -5
Starting out with Nina Simone and the Beatles is pretty tough to beat, Howard. Great shots. Thanks, Rick. My father managed to get the choicest assignments, and he was a master of available light and something of an intuitive psychologist. He was charming, had a European accent, and an incredible back story. And he always recognized what Henri Cartier-Bresson called "the decisive moment."
Sounds like the art of portrait photography encapsulated, right there. It’s interesting and sad all at the same time, how art has morphed with technology. Portrait painters were replaced by photographers. Now professional photographers are being replaced because of cell phone cameras, and the easy ability to crowd source ‘good enough’ pictures.
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Post by RickW on Apr 7, 2024 10:26:23 GMT -5
Starting out with Nina Simone and the Beatles is pretty tough to beat, Howard. Great shots.
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Post by RickW on Apr 6, 2024 10:59:22 GMT -5
Many decades ago, I hit a patch of black ice while riding a motorcycle. I and the bike slid for a ways. While we were doing so, the car behind us pulled out to pass and kept going. “If I had a rocket launcher.” I was fine, bike was mostly okay.
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Post by RickW on Apr 6, 2024 9:41:18 GMT -5
Many of the Japanese basses did have metal pickguards. Could be a Teisco or a half dozen other brands all made by the same factory. It’s very pro looking, but there are definitely pick guard screw holes all around.
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Post by RickW on Apr 6, 2024 9:40:26 GMT -5
Just a warning, the "Teisco" groups on FB get really pissy if you assume your instrument is one, without the proper documentation. lol. People getting annoyed about cheap instruments. Collectors.
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Post by RickW on Apr 5, 2024 21:37:51 GMT -5
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Post by RickW on Apr 5, 2024 18:42:03 GMT -5
Lol. New to me. I’m an old bass player, that’s what I played in my brief professional career, and I still have my bass from then, a 1970s GIbson Ripper, which for some reason I can’t remember, I heavily modified. But it still plays and sounds great. Recently, a lady in our archery club said she had an old bass she wanted to get rid of, that had belonged to her father. She just wanted to give it away. So, I said sure. So here it is. It’s been modified. Looks like someone put a new, custom made metal pickguard on it. The old screw holes for the original pickguard are there. There’s a wow in the neck, and no adjustable truss rod. The tuners are shot. It makes noise, but there’s a lot of noise that shouldn’t be there. It has war wounds, though I’m not sure if that’s from playing, (there is some belt buckle rash,) or the fact that it’s been banging around in closets without a case for 50 years. She thinks he would have got it in the 1960s. The model/insignia info is gone from the headstock — again, you can see the holes were it was before. Anyone have any idea what this is? I was thinking of maybe putting a fretless neck on it, but I dunno, not sure it’s worth the 3 hundred or so for neck, tuners, and strings.
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Post by RickW on Apr 4, 2024 23:03:53 GMT -5
A fav from the daylight savings time changeover this year.
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Post by RickW on Apr 4, 2024 23:00:46 GMT -5
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Post by RickW on Apr 4, 2024 16:12:33 GMT -5
I never notice mine until I try to notice it. It’s a rather loud, steady hiss. Honestly don’t know when it showed up, I assume it had something to do with playing in very loud bar bands, but who knows.
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Post by RickW on Apr 4, 2024 16:09:37 GMT -5
Man, that steel player. Well, all of them, but…wow.
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Post by RickW on Mar 27, 2024 14:32:31 GMT -5
If it aint’ Miss Vickie’s, it ain’t chips.
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Post by RickW on Mar 27, 2024 14:31:05 GMT -5
They’ve been working together for a while, but this is the first official project, I think. She can sing, and she’s a decent player as well. This looks like a bit more of a pro attempt, with better videos. Good luck to them. The music so far has been great.
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Post by RickW on Mar 24, 2024 12:35:29 GMT -5
Better learn Wheels On The Bus and the Unicorn song We came up with a new verse for Wheels of the Bus -- "The verses of this song go on and on....."
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Post by RickW on Mar 22, 2024 18:29:54 GMT -5
Lots of you, (just about everyone except Evan,) didn’t care for the last piece I posted by this player, but this is pretty wild. Technique and tone, and a real joy of playing the entire time.
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Post by RickW on Mar 22, 2024 15:20:34 GMT -5
Wow, such tone and feel. Her legato passages are so incredibly smooth, and I like the way she gets really aggressive at times. Lovely.
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Post by RickW on Mar 19, 2024 19:59:57 GMT -5
Lol, every poor guitar players dream. Find a beautiful guitar in a dusty case in a closet somewhere.
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