I made something really cool.

[Blazer]

A couple of days ago, we were working on taking a six string bass apart at our workshop of Knooren handcrafted instruments because it suffered a fatal trussrod break, since the bass had a glued in neck we had no other option but to chop it out with a chisel. I then was told to saw the headstock off so that the ornate fingerboard could be salvaged. So after I went Henry the VIII'th on that neck inspiration stuck and I told my boss: "Say wouldn't it be cool to place that headstock on a sockel like a trophy?"

And so I did exactly that, it looked really cool but then I had a better idea. I took a flat piece of maple, shaped it into a Ricky headstock, finished it "Jet-glo" put some very old machine heads and a name plate and there it was.

I now have one of the coolest ornaments ever on my desk. If you look closely you'll see that the name plate actually says "Bickenracker"

 

[dangnewt]

That is pretty cool.

Reminds me of trophy.


Maybe you can get a little brass piece engraved with something like:

"Thanks Blazer for taking such great care of my Rick,
Sir Paul"

 

[markjazzbassist]

Maybe you can get a little brass piece engraved with something like:

"Thanks Blazer for taking such great care of my Rick,
Sir Paul"

LOL

i was also loving that you chose to spell it "Bickenracker". Hilarious.

 

[Mark Wilson]

Hey, it's better than that one guy who has "rickenbastard" on his!

Very cool!
I wouldn't be able to ever do that though.

-Mark

 

[markjazzbassist]

Hey, it's better than that one guy who has "rickenbastard" on his!

hahaha, you have got to be kidding me. are you serious?


this thread delivers.

 

[bassteban]

Mine would say Chickenwacker.

 

[bassman76]

Hey, it's better than that one guy who has "rickenbastard" on his!

-Mark

Haha, 'that one guy', we're talking about Lemmy here.

 

[GM60466]

I wonder what John Hall would say about this?

 

[Blazer]

I wonder what John Hall would say about this?

I don't think that a one-off "Bickenracker" desk ornament will have John Hall and his people hunt for my head.

If his team shows him this message and the pictures I included, I'm sure that he must realise from my message that I made this for fun and that I have no intention of making a series of them, he has more to worry about Chinese companies making rickenbacker copies than to worry about a luthier who made something funny for his own use.

 

[machine gewehr]

Kinda reminds me of the first time I saw a Rick,I couldn't read the headstock and I was looking for Bickenbackers all over the net!

 

[dangnewt]

Mine would say Chickenwacker.

LOL
Thanks, now I have Diet Pepsi coming out of my nose.

 

[eots]

Does it have through the sockel stringing ?
Totally cool idea.

 

[Blazer]

Does it have through the sockel stringing ?
Totally cool idea.

Yup.

 

[bassteban]

LOL
Thanks, now I have Diet Pepsi coming out of my nose.

Ah, accomplishment.

 

[chickenwacker]

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