Grabber Bass

[Frenchy]

I just got myself one of these nice copies of the Grabber bass with floating pickup.
Man, talk about an almost identical copy
it also share the same problems ... Need to clean her up and give some TLC first and will come back and post pics...
I worked on her yesterday and almost got the neck perfectly straight, needs more work but getting there.

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[charles]

Good score.

I've owned two of these, one was just "pretty good" (sold it) and the one I have now which I really like.

[Frenchy]

Good score.

Thank's!

Been hoping to fall on one of these or the Rick copy for a long time. Still need to do a full clean up on her but she is a player that is for certain, I'm just trying to get the action perfect on her at this point. That 3 prong bridge does look a hell of a lot like others I have....I would say identical...hint, hint... Very confusing, the ones that I think are made by one manufacture have the neck plate with "Made in Japan" only and that manufacture in question always put "steel reinforced neck" on its neck plate even on all the others white label brands.... If it was not for that fact, I could guarantee were some of these came from... Wonder if they ever made a Ripper copy? That would be cool!

Have you noticed that they even copied the scarf neck!?! That is quite something since scarf necks are frowned upon in Japan!

Pictures this weekend since need to work before I can play...

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[Frenchy]

Here are some pics.

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[Frenchy]

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Well ended up doing quite a bit of work on her. The neck had a warp and is almost perfectly straight now. All the chrome was completly tarnished and had to polish every bit of it to give a shine. Had to reglue the 3 prong bushings for the bridge back on the bass since they were completly loose, the bridge kept moving up and down on its own. Leveled the freets and glued 3 or 4 back on the freetboard. The strings were to low at the nut so applied some super glue in the string spacing to add height to them, was out of nut, will still replace with a bone one soon.

All in all, very nice bass! deep punchy tone and not to heavy for an all maple bass... very happy with it. They did a really good job on the copy.

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[Barry]

Nice job Pierre. I don't know much about basses but this is an unusual looking beast. I can see why you'd want her in your collection.
By the way, when do you find time to eat/sleep/mess around with your wife?

[Frenchy]

She is very nice, love the look

Barry, I work a little bit on these everynight...The wife and family get attention trust me ... I just dont sleep very much and always like to do something with my hands... I just cant watch a movie or news without doing something else at the same time...


Look who is taling by the way... you work, you are building a website and still have time to participate on several forums on a regular basis.... plus ship me instruments from time to time...

Hey.. Barry has got to be an alien...


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[Barry]

Drat! My secret's out!

[elDave]

Beautiful bass Pierre! Just curious, how heavy does it feel ? I have read the Gibson Grabbers were very heavy.

elDave

[Frenchy]

Actually, its heavier then I thought... It did not feel that heavy...

10.67 LBS
4.84 Kilo

These have a very wide and thin body.

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