whoa! i just found out via your website that you play a riverhead unicorn bass - the only one i've ever seen besides my own!



what do you know about these basses? i havent been able to find any info on them at all.




for what it's worth, here's mine!


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/milidrag/Picture011.jpg

I have two Unicorns -- one fretless, one fretted -- and they’re great basses. The fretted is especially nice and it was my main fretted bass for several years. I got mine in Japan when I was on tour there in the Eighties. I seem to recall that the company folded at one point, but that someone else has taken over production. Anybody else have more info?

Do you have a picture of yours online anywhere, Mr. Manring?

Ive wanted one of these basses ever sinice i saw Michael playing Funk & Disorderly And (the fretted half of) Watson & Crick on one in he's Bass Essentials video

I just missed one of them by about $10 a few years back on evilbay

it was a Unicorn-Series RUB-1095 Deluxe Bass in pearl pink
& I have'nt seen any pop up snice :(

From what i could find out about them there were made by a company call Headway Co in Japan & these designs havent been remade snice the Headway factory suffered from a fire and lost all there material and machines several years ago

spec on these models where as follows

RUB-1090 Standard Bass -alder body
-maple 3P neck
-rosewood fingerboard 24 frets
-original singlecoils 2x
-original bridge
-original tailpiece
Color:
-graphite black
-pearl white
-pearl pink
-silver
-metallic red
-metallic blue

RUB-1095 Deluxe Bass (as above but)
-original singlecoil x1 humbucking
pickup x1

RUB-1100 Custom Bass (as above but)
-4 band E.Q.
-original singlecoil pickup x2 with eq.

Cheers
Thonk

Sorry, I don’t have any pics of my Unicorns on my computer at the moment, but they look just like thephilospher’s.

Hello,
I am currently looking for a Riverhead Unicorn that is for sale, if anyone has one that they are willing to part with, please get back to me.

I have a metallic red Riverhead Unicorn for sale.

Matthewryanmoss@gmail.com

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Boy, am i glad i found this forum. i just bought a Riverhead Unicorn -- it's going to need a little work, but i'm excited to have found one.

Now, i've never worked with a headless instrument and i purchased this one sight unseen on eBay. One selling point of the Unicorns is that they can take normal strings as well as double-ball strings....

So here is the inevitable stupid question: i've looked this bass over from all angles and i can't figure for the life of me how to install normal strings on it. It's the fretless model, so unless someone manufactures double-ball flatwounds i'm up the creek.

Any help will be deeply appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
jb

Hei, I've got a Riverhead Unicorn Bass for sale: I try to post pictures.
I've used this bass in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8eJgq1Z10
(I'm the one with the furry hat...)

I just found out i have one too!

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7937885#post7937885