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10-26-2009, 06:12 AM
|  | I work from home — TB is my break room. | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | | What was he thinking? (CL / Rick Content)
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10-26-2009, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Northern VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dalkowski  | the horror.... 
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10-26-2009, 06:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Seattle, Washington | | | For some reason I see a lot of Rickenbackers that have been modified. I guess people like the looks but not the sound.
Should this bass be called a Fenderbacker? |
10-26-2009, 06:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: East Kilbride | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dalkowski | I can undertstand someone modding a P-bass with a Jazz pup, or vice versa, or maybe a rick copy if they want the look, but imagine springing all the cash for one of those, then routing out the body and putting such a hideous looking pickguard on there... I can't believe that.
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10-26-2009, 07:36 AM
| | I work from home — TB is my break room. | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | The guy has been trying to sell it for months. In the spring, his postings read to the effect that he WOULDN'T sell to you if you wanted to change it back to normal.
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10-26-2009, 07:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Belgium | | it hurts to see that
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10-26-2009, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Groves, Tx | | | Those aren't even real EMG's! Those are Selects designed by EMG! Why the hell would you do that to a Ric? Man, some people... |
10-26-2009, 08:01 AM
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10-26-2009, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Nova Scotia | | | Happened a lot in the '70s and '80s, apparently.
I figure if you want a Fender sound, then buy a Fender, but some people just have to go at it the hard way.
Now it's worth way less than an unmolested bass, and he's obviously still not happy with it.
Kind of a lose-lose situation.
Not all that good for a project bass, either, though I dare say one could make an 'honest Rick' of it somehow, it would just take a few hundred dollars and some work.
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10-27-2009, 06:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Istanbul | | IF I had lots of money to waste,and was close to him,I'd buy the bass then beat him with the poor thing. 
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10-27-2009, 10:06 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: La Crosse, WI | | | Hey...it does come with the original case.
I think back to 1974 when my guitar player bought a brand new Gibson Les Paul Deluxe with a red sparkle finish. Someone almost convinced him the finish was so ugly he should scrape the sparkle off and make it natural. He thought about it, but decided to keep the red sparkle finish. He still has the guitar today and it's worth big bucks because of the semi-rare finish. Sometimes we do dumb things...and sometimes we don't.
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10-27-2009, 10:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I like the "looks great" part. Actually, it looks terrible. |
10-27-2009, 10:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | He turned his Ric into a PBJ. I bet it could be restored, a little filler and original pickups would get you back in business. Holy cow, this was a $1,500.00 bass once upon a time, he could have bought a Mexican P Bass Deluxe with the same active electronics for $400.00, got the same sound, and kept the Ric stock or sold it at full street value. Doh!
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10-27-2009, 10:21 AM
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10-27-2009, 10:25 AM
| | I work from home — TB is my break room. | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | | But it IS in "excellent condition." It must be, if he mentions it twice. |
10-27-2009, 10:46 AM
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10-27-2009, 10:49 AM
| | I work from home — TB is my break room. | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kcole4001
Not all that good for a project bass, either, though I dare say one could make an 'honest Rick' of it somehow, it would just take a few hundred dollars and some work.
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10-27-2009, 10:58 AM
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10-27-2009, 11:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Westminster, BC | | | I'd buy it.
For $200!
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10-27-2009, 11:18 AM
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