i need some help gang - Colby Bass

drbassman · January 17, 2011, 04:32:33 PM

Quote from: dadagoboi on January 17, 2011, 04:08:05 PM
I'm very good at taking things apart. Most of them never get put back together

Hey, me too! I've got parts of 7 or 8 basses all over the place!

Daniel_J · January 17, 2011, 04:54:07 PM

I disambled a Epi LP Special guitar neck that had this type of truss rod too. It was a made in Indonesia one.

sniper · January 17, 2011, 05:09:24 PM

this neck bought 5 years ago had a Martin type TR. i bought it disassembled and it went in this:

drbassman · January 17, 2011, 07:39:25 PM

Until I bought one, I hadn't seen one of the Martin rods. I have a couple Martin acoustic bass necks I'm gonna use for future projects with the correct channel already routed.

Dave W · January 17, 2011, 09:36:29 PM

FWIW, Martin went to a two-way rod about 2007.

drbassman · January 18, 2011, 03:44:20 AM

Quote from: Dave W on January 17, 2011, 09:36:29 PM
FWIW, Martin went to a two-way rod about 2007.

Basses and guitars? Where do you pick up this information? Do you ever sleep?

sniper · January 18, 2011, 08:22:40 AM

Quote from: drbassman on January 18, 2011, 03:44:20 AM
Basses and guitars? Where do you pick up this information? Do you ever sleep?

Dave and Meg of the White Stripes have been taken by aliens and a duplicated ingram processed Borq have replaced them. Uwe is currently under investigation concerning a similar fate.

Carlo is an upcoming person of interest.

Dave W · January 18, 2011, 08:51:06 AM

Quote from: drbassman on January 18, 2011, 03:44:20 AM
Basses and guitars? Where do you pick up this information? Do you ever sleep?

I'm not sure about the basses since they've never listed bass truss rods in their "1833 Shop" online. They sell both the old and new style guitar truss rods, and the new one is called a two-way truss rod. The pic isn't big enough to see details.

I read about it on another forum at the time of the change because some buyers couldn't find the truss rods to adjust their new Martins. The new rods are set further back in the access hole (under the soundboard) so you have to use a longer wrench.

Dave W · January 18, 2011, 08:54:15 AM

Quote from: sniper on January 18, 2011, 08:22:40 AM
Dave and Meg of the White Stripes have been taken by aliens and a duplicated ingram processed Borq have replaced them. Uwe is currently under investigation concerning a similar fate.

Carlo is an upcoming person of interest.

Meg White? What prompted that?

I do have something in common with her, neither of us are good drummers.

sniper · January 18, 2011, 09:16:43 AM

i spun the wheel and her name came up, you seem to be a neverending source of information (which i look forward too) and Carlo has been rumored to have built a bass in 34 seconds?

all in good fun, no offense meant.

Dave W · January 18, 2011, 09:34:04 AM

I'm certainly not offended, just wondered if maybe she had done something odd lately... since being reprogrammed by the aliens.

drbassman · January 18, 2011, 01:18:35 PM

Meg who? Man, there is so much trivia I just don't know!!!!!!!!!

nofi · January 18, 2011, 01:20:07 PM

now that every guy in rock has boinked her there's no where to go but up.

Dave W · January 18, 2011, 01:47:40 PM

Quote from: nofi on January 18, 2011, 01:20:07 PM
now that every guy in rock has boinked her there's no where to go but up.

What's the difference between Meg White and the Titanic?

Only 1300 men went down on the Titanic.

(an old joke about Madonna)

drbassman · January 18, 2011, 02:39:36 PM

Yikes, I'm gonna have to google her just to see what she looks like!!!!