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Location: Jet City | Looking through my pics from the Pearl Jam show at the Gorge I noticed this pic. This is Jeff Ament's arsenal, but I can only see the headstocks.
There's an Ovation and Hamer heastock. Could that be a Magnum?
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Jeff has a Magnum |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | The man OBVIOUSLY has good taste! |
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Location: Jet City | I'd love to add a Magnum IV to my list. I remember one hanging right by my UK II when I bought it. The coolness of that bass is indescribable. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | There is a III on Ebay that looks pretty nice.
Magnum III
I just bought one and it is VERY cool. But if you're into the sliders, there will probably be one along some day. |
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Location: Jet City | It's an eventually thing. I'm done buying for the time being. I'll be kicked outta the house if I bring another guitar home any time soon. :eek: |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I know the feeling. That's why I'm doing the collection shuffle-thing right now. Hey ...how do you like your UKII? |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by bvince:
I know the feeling. That's why I'm doing the collection shuffle-thing right now. Hey ...how do you like your UKII? I could write volumes on my feelings for my UK II. "Like" is not a strong enough word. It's been with me longer than any other thing in my possession. I've been through some pretty rough times thorough the years, and it's always been there for me. It'll remain with me for the rest of my days.
I truly believe I owe a large part of my love of playing the guitar in general to that guitar. I'm glad the music store in my town was an Ovation dealer, and had one hanging in there. I'm also thankful to anyone else in this forum that may have had a hand in it's conception and or creation.
That's just touching the surface, but I think you get my drift. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | they are nice guitars, Genius design!
but what do I know? |
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Location: Jet City | ;) |
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Location: CT | I want a white one. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I liked them the best |
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Location: NJ | The Magnums are such cool basses (and VERY under-rated)!
Speaking of which, I've got a MagIV, and the eq sliders are a bit "noisy".
Any recommendations on a particular product to clean 'em??
I remember "back in the day" using either CarbonTet or TV "Tuner Cleaner" spray . . .
Any ModernDay remedies??? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | UK II- \'Vintage Guitar\' |
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Location: Jet City | cliff, there's some pot. cleaner in a can that I got from Radioshack, but I've only used it on an amp. I'm to scared to try it on a guitar. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
I liked them the best *speaking in a whisper so his nutmeg doesn't hear*
I think those white ones are sweet too. If it had been a white one hanging there.... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Damon67:
cliff, there's some pot. cleaner in a can that I got from Radioshack, but I've only used it on an amp. I'm to scared to try it on a guitar. You had him at "pot".... |
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Location: NJ | ;) |
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Location: Jet City | There's no red eyed Graemlins, eh? This is close though :D
I think Cheech called 'em "Chinese eyes" |
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Location: NJ | I'm rather partial to
". . two piss holes in the snow . ." |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Cliff, the RadioSHack Tuner Cleaner I think is still available and works well. But any "Contact Cleaner" that boasts "no residue" is fine. On Magnum IV's (and 2's) I take the knobs off first so after I spray in the cleaner I can work the pots individually. I also usually do this while it's plugged into a small amp so I can hear when the slides are clean. I also usually just spray some "air" in first to blow out the dust, then use the cleaner. |
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Location: NJ | Czech. Thx!! |
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Location: Jet City | Yeah, what Miles said. That's the stuff I use. Now I'll feel ok trying it on the guitars too.
I recently refurbed all my old stomp peddles too. That stuff worked well. No more scratchy stuff when I turn knobs.
Miles, will that stuff be OK for the Tornado Volumes and Tones? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Pot Cleaner, Wasn't that just a good screen? |
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Location: NJ | sh!t, a "gate-fold" album cover was all I ever needed . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | "Is that a Magnum" ...
... or are you just glad to see me.
Sorry. Someone had to say it. :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | "Is that a "Magnum" ...
No, it's some OTHER dopey P.I. in a Hawaiian shirt . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | Hehehe. What's your phone number Cliff? We'll call you from Dopey's annual NAMM drinkfest this evening. ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Have one for me guys. Someone should call G8R's place Saturday night when the Fla G8Rbowl is in full swing. Or give a number, we'll call you. |
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Location: NJ | You guys have my number(s) . . . |
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Location: Jet City | Bobbo, you at NAMM? If you like cool old guitars and dig on country pickers like Travis and Maphis, Surf, or Rockabilly, head over the The Jolly Roger Hotel Ballroom on Saturday. Corner of Katella and Harbor.
It's Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geek Festival. I really wanted to go, but the funds were lacking due to some recent guitar purchases. There's several folks that play the weird doublenecks like mine there.
Guitar Geek Festival
There will even be some Guitorgan playing (anyone know what that is?)
Katella and Harbor, a block from NAMM. |
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Location: SoCal | Dopey's Annual Drink Fest????? Jeez Bobbo, hope nobody sits on your EF75..... |
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Location: Tennessee | Always looking for a cheap thrill, eh Moody?
Damon, I am a surf guitar nut. I'll do what I can to catch the event. I know exactly where the Jolly Roger is. (He'd be the one sitting on my Tak). |
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Location: Jet City | Bobbo, check this out. A clip from last year...
Deke Dickerson and Crazy Joe - Bumblebee Twist
Deke will be here in Seattle next month. I'll be attending the show. |
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Location: NJ | H@lySh!t!!
Went to RadShck & got a can of cleaner(s'not CarbonTet anymore, it's Tetraflouroethane).
I had always assumed that in proportion to all that other Bill k'MAN-sized hardware on this thing, that the sliders were these wall-dimmer sized pots that offered a respectable degree of "heft" when slid . . .
. . . once I douched those things out, and they "broke free of the bottom", those things were "slicker'n OwlSh!t". (nice!)
I know we discussed the whole thing with the six sliders "tied" into three pairs, and that the 2nd slider in each pair did something to "compensate"(ShutUp,Witko!), but if you take the "tabs" off and use that 2nd slider to help "fine tune", you can get some REALLY nice bass voicings outta' this . . .
If y'just keep the two in close-proximity to each other, and then just adjust that 2nd slider (just a touch) to "sweeten" the tone . .
This thing was out-Ric'ing a Ric!!!
Miles/Temp - give it a try sometime |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Preaching to the choir Cliff. I love Magnums. You wanna check out a monster bass, I have a Magnum I Fretless!!!!! If you ever see one, jump on it. Un-freaking-believable-tone. |
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Location: big island | ventured to eBay and typed in "magnum bass". saw only one that someone converted to fretless, however, what i saw tons of were "magnum bass" (as in fish) fishing lures. :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | Miles;
There's a MagI in my town that I'm patiently waiting for the guy to "come down" on . . .
If/When that ever DOES happen and I grab it, I'm gonna have the IV made fretless (just a smooth, "open" fingerboard . . none of those GirlyMan, inlaid, TrainingWheel "frets"!!!)
I was in GC last night picking up strings, and picked up a maple fretless made by Ocean(??).
Notta bad little unit. ShortScale/NiceNeck.
Made me "Jones" for a fretless, tho . . .
I figured the combo of the IV's pre-amp/eq and a fretless factor'd make it "killah!" . . .
Anybody have a line on a company that carries little rubber/plastic "tips" that'll pop onto little toggle switches and the like??
I'm looking for some little tips (TIPS,Witko!) to pop onto the ends of the eq sliders.
I had a sample-bag here from prospective vendor YEARS ago the I kept . . and damned if I could find it now. Anyone?? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Third drawer, behind the summer socks. |
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Location: NJ | Socks?? . . . in the SUMMER???
Whaddayou think this IS? . . Canada??? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | SUMMer socks. Summer not....
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The drawer where you put things in but never take them out.
(BTW, something lives and eats in there.) |
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Location: NJ | You must mean the drawer where the ex-wife lives, and all my money goes . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Maybe, I could ehh, be of some assistance to you... Y'know whudImean?
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Cable TV has given me the impression that is the local solution for everything in Jersey. Which can't be doing much for the tourist trade...... |
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Location: NJ | A while back, we were putting together a more aggressive office Recycling Program . . .
This one girl in our office (who was kind of "spear-heading" a particular part of it) asked me if she should contact "WasteManagement" and see if they could possibly help us with a particular logistical challenge.
Sarcastically, I said:
". . GoAhead! . . call WasteManagement . .
. . . ask for Paulie Walnuts!!! . . ."
Sure 'nuff, the girl (who's never SEEN "The Sopranos"), CALLS WasteManagement . . .
". . Hello! . . can I speak to Paulie Walnuts, please?? . . ."
The receptionist didn't find it a bit funny . . . . |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So Amanda Huggenholdt would be out of the question? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You're just too subtle, Cliff. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Take a look at pages 1617 - 1619 of the Mouser catalog.
http://www.mouser.com/catalog/632/1617.pdf |
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Location: Jet City | Question answered, it is indeed a Magnum on Pearl Jam's stage...
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam Story
"Jeff has 12 basses onstage: three vintage Fender Precisions (including a sunburst ’59 once owned by Canned Heat’s Larry Taylor), two ’90s Modulus Vintage J’s, a 2000 Modulus custom Silvertone replica, two fretless ’90s Wal Basses, Hamer 8- and 12-strings, a ’70s Ovation Magnum, and an Azola Acoustic Baby Bass electric upright" |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hmmm ... now I'm wondering which model it is ? |
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Location: Jet City | It must be a I or II. It's referred to as "Ugly" |
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Location: NJ | that's okay.
I've often heard PearlJam referred to as "Talentless" . . |
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Is that a Magnum?