Agreed, gay as all fuck. Ditto on the shiny boards with their dots.
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Don't be melodramatic. And maybe don't tweak too far if it's a newer bass, you have been dealing with summer humidity.
Keep the glasses wiped clean.
Do they make some sort of dial indicator/digital display torque wrench for this?
I'd start with just a small tweak per day, letting it sit overnight and "find itself" between adjusts.
I don't know that the 2 rods are the same tension but I imagine they should be kept in the same relationship/proportion to each other to keep from pulling a twist, no?
Its actually pretty simple. 1/4" nut driver. Both rods act pretty much like a traditional single one. Just on two sides.
Its the older Rics that were tricky.
You had to loosen the two nuts at the end of each rod, physically bend and hold the neck where it needed to be, then tighten the nuts back up. ... But not too tight or you'll snap something.
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Something important most likely.
And hope you didn't screw up or didn't bend enough / too much.
Vintage means crap sometimes.
Don't be melodramatic. And maybe don't tweak too far if it's a newer bass, you have been dealing with summer humidity.
As always gentle and caring advice.
God damn I'm glad you're here.
Speaking of, I hope I never need a fret repair.
Looks like the binding would have to be cut and whatever that sealer is on the board cracked if anything other than a dressing was needed.
See, this is cool. On "other sites" I won't mention, this thread would be swarmed with "You're an amateur if you don't play a P-bass with flats and the tone turned all the way down".
I've seen guys scalpel slice around frets and remove them without screwing up the finish.
Don't know that I could do that.
Do know that I could not do it successfully 24 times in a row.
Don't know that I could do that.
Do know that I could not do it successfully 24 times in a row.
fretwork is scary, id rather have uneven frets fuck it
That sounds nice! I haven't kept up on Rics, just never was able to adapt. Had to go Chinese fakes with cafe bike finishes.
The 4001s were hit or miss.
I've heard stories of the bridge folding in half and warping the neck.
Others were solid as a rock.
They worked out most of the bugs with the newer 4003s. Only took em 50 years.