The Last Bass Outpost

I was looking at some on Ebay and came across this one.  It states in the auction that it is NOS but I can't understand the holes around the pickup openings.  They are unlike any I've seen on The Ripper.  The originals had no pickup mounting holes while the later ones had a sort of triangular arrangement.  Any theories?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-old-stock-Gibson-Ripper-pickguard-from-the-70s-/171111453253?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item27d7099245

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but that pickguard looks like ones that used to be sold by WD Music. I started a thread about them way back.

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=5433.msg87591;topicseen#msg87591

General view over here is The Who rescued the show from a mass of generally mediocre performances. Though Townsend looks increasingly self conscious doing the windmills.

Very nice.

Never seen one of these on a stage (the bass, not Liam Gallagher)



And this with The Who. Looks like a Jaguar body, but the pickup/pickguard combination isn't right. Any ideas?

Nice raw sound, and good bassline too! I like the singers voice. Bit like Grace Slick?
For my rock-blues band, Shake Down, I use a Ripper. Though it's not a Ripper no more, to be honest. Had some P-bass pu's installed, so I got rid of them, and put a black T-bird pup in her, made a new pickguard, 2 controls, and, voila, a new bass with a great sound saw the light of day.

Thanks, I'll pass on the Grace Slick comparison to her. I've been trying to get some Airplane in the set, but no luck so far. I've even got the JCS waiting (though it's good for way more than that).

Since I got my 78 ebony Ripper, I've had real problems with the sound I get from it. Eventually I worked out that the bridge pickup, which is a rebuild by Kent Armstrong, was wired single coil and reversed polarity. I can't get my head around the effect that has electrically, with the 4 settings, but I used the pictures on Jules' site to wire it correctly, and it's better. It still sounds completely different from the earlier alder/maple Ripper I have, but I'm not too surprised at that.

When we played for the Jubilee in June my daughter filmed some of the set and I was using it in position 2, so the KA is solo. Sounds very aggressive to me. What do you think, does that sound like a Ripper? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR_fg5B3UpU&feature=plcp

(There may be other factors, the 1x12 combo for example. BTW, I know my playing was awful, we'd been laid off since Feb and had 1 rehearsal.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPaBWxcnl30&feature=player_embedded

Hey, that's unfair!!! My music taste is wide ranging, everyone who knows me is surprised, more wide-ranging than anybody else I know. My car is currently filled with (CDs, I don't listen to individual songs, always to complete CDs)  ....
 

Stick with it. Having moved my mp3s onto my phone, so I can use the voice search to tell it which album to play in the car, I realised I am now completely incapable of deciding which album I want to hear. Too much mp3 player on random scrambles the brain.