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Ibanez Rickenbacker ???????
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yup. 6-700 is more of an appropriate price though. From what I have heard they are actually pretty nice playing instruments.
I've heard of it. I wouldn't pay that much for it though! You could get the real thing for just a little more.
fender never trademarked the body shape so its fair game, they did patent the headstock though, thank god.
Hi.
IMHO too much for a BO.
I have its "predecessor" Herby NT, and that's one of the nicest Rickenbacker copies I've ever came across.
Regards
Sam
IMHO too much for a BO.
I have its "predecessor" Herby NT, and that's one of the nicest Rickenbacker copies I've ever came across.
Regards
Sam
This man is right.I just bought a rick for $1300,so $1200 for that one is definitely too much.
My first full scale bass was an Ibanez Rick copy. The thing that drove me crazy was the neck. It was a bolt-on and no matter how much I tried to tighten it up the neck would always shift. Other than that the neck itself felt good and it sounded good. Not like a Rick though, perhaps with the upgrades ti may cop a more Ric like sound. Not even close to 1200.00 for that, I agree that the top of the market would be 700.00.
I own one in mint condition that I payed around 600 for about four to five years ago. I've owned real rics and prefer the ibanez. Great basses. That said 1200 dollars is an insane amount of money for one. I wouldn't pay over 800 tops for one.
Here's the magazine ad for the ibanez from the 70s by the way.
Here's the magazine ad for the ibanez from the 70s by the way.
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Actually they didn't enforce their trademarks. It is up to the owner to enforce them or lose them. The headstock is covered by a trademark and not a patent.
I have a black one with the mini humbuckers. Great bass. Got a great deal on it a couple years ago, but now I'm trying to sell mine because I don't play it over my Fenders...I just can't seem to want to let it go 
Here's some pics of mine.
Here's some pics of mine.
Holy overpriced bass batman. Like myself, Garmenteros is an old Ibanez fanatic. I owned a maple one of these once. I paid $550, sold it for $550. It was a good bass but I hadn't realized how much I disliked playing a Ric style bass. As everyone else has mentioned, for $1200 you could have a real one. To me it's not even about which is "better" but the fact that this is way over the going market price for what it is.
Indeed, you shouldn't pay over half that for one. It's not some sort of collectible. It's a good bass, but there's no reason to pay $1200 when you can get one for much, much less.
I remember seeing those back in the 70's. That catalog pic is like having a kind of flash-back. My first bass was an Ibanez "Silver Series" which was a P-Bass knock off. It was a great bass and I used it for many years until I retired it. The Ibanez Rick copy was actually something I considered back in '79/80 but ended up getting a 4001 instead. Glad I did.
Like garmenteros and Lazarus above, another old Ibanez guy here. I actually had a Ibanez Ric many years ago, back when I knew even less about basses than I do today.
Mainly got it because I could actually afford it (paid around $300 used for mine), and cause Chris Squire and Geddy used 'em. Mine was a bolt on that been nicely converted to a set-in neck. After a while, I realized I could never get "that" Geddy tone from it, even after modding it as Geddy did (Badass bridge). Eventually found more about it that really didn't do much for me, and sold it and saved for an Ibanez Musician 940 fretless. (The only bass I have bought new.) Still haven't found a real Ric that I like.
Sold the Musician after using it as my only bass for ~6 years. I still regret selling that one. Not so much that Ibanez Ric.
Agreed the selling price is high.
wraub
Mainly got it because I could actually afford it (paid around $300 used for mine), and cause Chris Squire and Geddy used 'em. Mine was a bolt on that been nicely converted to a set-in neck. After a while, I realized I could never get "that" Geddy tone from it, even after modding it as Geddy did (Badass bridge). Eventually found more about it that really didn't do much for me, and sold it and saved for an Ibanez Musician 940 fretless. (The only bass I have bought new.) Still haven't found a real Ric that I like.
Sold the Musician after using it as my only bass for ~6 years. I still regret selling that one. Not so much that Ibanez Ric.
Agreed the selling price is high.
wraub
That bass didn't cause any lawsuit. There was a lawsuit brought by Norlin (who owned Gibson at the time) over Ibanez's copies of the Gibson headstock and "openbook" or "squished frog" headstock inlays, so all of the Ibanez (and half of all the other Japanese instruments from the 70's) instruments from the mid 70's are called 'lawsuit' as in 'lawsuit era'. "Lawsuit" is almost as overused and misundertood a word as "mojo".
