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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Somebody stop me!!!!

« on: December 30, 2013, 11:11:38 PM »

I have a 2030GF with a great feeling neck: 1 5/8" nut, 2 3/8" spacing at the bridge, the neck feel is close to that of my March '73 4001, perhaps a bit thicker, but nothing like some of the later fat necks in some years. The HB-2 pickups are very much Rick-like with a bit more aggression available from them. These are sleeper basses, really.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Martin Keith basses

« on: November 21, 2013, 08:58:06 PM »

I'm not sure if I am reading your schematic correctly, but here is some more details. The pull switch is on the tone pot so finding parts may be even easier. When the switch is pushed down the setup works just like a standard harness, panning from one humbucking pickup to the other. With the switch pulled up and the panpot is in the middle position the two pickups are just like the former setting, both humbucking with all four coils of the two pickups in use. As the panpot is turned clockwise the signal moves gradually from the 4 coils to just the 2 outer coils; when the panpot is rotated counterclockwise the signal gradually moves to just the 2 inner coils. It really is a great way to provide a variety of tone with a passive system.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Martin Keith basses

« on: November 20, 2013, 08:35:42 PM »

I usually set the pickups to the pulled position and blend between the individual coils as desired since all four coils are in operation with the panpot in the middle (detent). The fretted Elfin 5 has the outer coils in the traditional '60s location which is pretty cool as I can instantly switch between a Jazz Bass tone or a Precision Bass tone (more or less) by which position the switch is in (up or down, respectively) when the panpot is fully clockwise.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Martin Keith basses

« on: November 18, 2013, 06:09:35 PM »

Yes, that is I! I first learned about and met Keith at the 2010 NAMM Show. I went to the Veillette booth to check out Joe's instruments as I had never had the chance to see one in person, and Martin was there with some of his basses. I learned that Martin works with Joe. I played a couple of his basses (with active electronics); when I asked if he had anything with passive electronics in it he grabbed the Elfin 5 fretless that I fell for and bought from him. It is the one featured in the review of Martin's basses in the June 2010 issue of Bass Player. About a year after that I ordered a fretted Elfin 5 from him.

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Other Bass Brands / Martin Keith basses

« on: November 17, 2013, 07:21:21 PM »

Anyone here own or play one (or more)?

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: And now they're offering 15 Snowglo 4004L's

« on: November 14, 2013, 10:40:21 PM »

Here is a full frontal of the Snowglo along with an older cousin of it.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Mystery bass! Help me ID this thing!

« on: November 08, 2013, 04:35:05 PM »

What's with the finger joint at the neck attachment tongue? Is there evindence of a break/damage on the backside of it?

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Ray Shulman's mystery bass

« on: November 03, 2013, 03:00:58 PM »

I don't know what bass that is but I love GG; I have most of their albums and saw them in early 1975, opening for Rick Wakeman during his King Arthur tour where I saw the iconic (?) original triple neck Wal as played by Roger Newell (I was right at the front edge of the stage for the whole show in front of Roger!)

Of course, Ray was playing a P Bass; somewhere around here I have a bunch of 35mm slides of GG I made at the show.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: And now they're offering 15 Snowglo 4004L's

« on: October 31, 2013, 04:38:59 PM »

Quote from: Dave W on October 31, 2013, 09:02:26 AM

Hey Jeff, welcome and congrats on the Snowglo.

Didn't you once fit a 4004 with toasters? Or am I remembering wrong?

Thanks, Dave!

Yes, my first 4004, the Cii that had been subsequently converted by Mark Gilbert into a 5 string that Paul Boyer currently owns. The Snowglo Laredo is slated to get Mike Lull T-Bird, Bartolini soapbars, and a few Jazz Bass pickups, as many as I can cram in between the neck and bridge!