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Offical B.C. Rich Club!
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Yeah, I had to do a double-take as well. The writing in the background told the story.It's weird how your phone flipped the image.
Interestingly, this bass was previously (possibly originally) owned by Stephen McGrath, who's been playing bass for Billy Idol for the past 20 years or so.
Hahaha, I knew what it was.You guys never saw a left-handed Bodine/Eagle?
Have I ever seen one? No, not even in pictures. Pretty rare indeed! 
Bought this here a bit back and eventually sold it, missed it, got it back today
Wish more people posted their beautiful BCRs!
Playing my Bodine at a gig tonight so I'll try and get a good pic from that.
Beautiful porch!
Here you go. Great set and I had way more fun with this bass than I expected.
I mean, mine aren't anything to drool over. They are just B.C. Rich shaped things, I can't afford the fancy ones so my Warlock is a Prestige and the Mockingbird is the MK3. Nothing fancy at all.
If you love them and enjoy playing them, they're very special and that's all that matters.
Agreed!
I've owned Warlocks since the early 90s. I think I got my first one back in like 1992. A neon blue late 80s Warlock Bass, just the plain old warlock shape with a single P pup. Then I started finding other neon colors, I had a neon purple one and a neon green one. I wish I still had those.
I haven't taken any really good pictures of my current Warlock. My wife bought it for me as an anniversary gift one year. It was the display model at my local GC and it has a dent in the front right below the bridge (just out of frame in this shot) between the bridge and the pup selector switch, that is deep enough to reveal the wood below. I think it's a 2001, in "blue burst". -
The thing shows all the dust in camera shots, but it's hard to get the blue to come through unless you flood it with light. Otherwise it just looks black. I really need to get a good shot of it. You can see it chillin' on the wall here, bottom row, far left. But again, it just looks black in that pic. But, you can see the dent as well. -
The Mockingbird is a pretty standard MK3 in the quilted maple -
Probably not very exciting to you guys snatching up all of the USA models but I decided to make a rescue attempt on what I believe is likely to be a 1980 BC Rico Eagle. Hard to tell with the mess of a brushed on paint job but there are some good points here.
The bad.... Frets pulled, crappy job, some chips and gouges. The aforementioned brushed on alkyd urethane paint.
The good.... $200, Structurally impressive. everything seems to work, all original parts mostly unmolested except for the stash hole drilled into the control cavity cover. No crack, breaks or anything that can't be tidied up.
Questions. Were the early Rico's set necks, cause this one appears to be? The control cavity cover is either bakelite, a composite or aluminum. They are both lite and very rigid, not cheap plastic. The headstock veneer appears to be holly or rosewood. What can people tell me about these? I should probaly just text my friend as he has owned several of these.
Needless to say, I'm looking forward to restoring it, no matter what it is.
I feel like this was likely originally a natural finish?
Progress stripping it
Stash hole in cavity cover. Somehow everything now makes sense....
The bad.... Frets pulled, crappy job, some chips and gouges. The aforementioned brushed on alkyd urethane paint.
The good.... $200, Structurally impressive. everything seems to work, all original parts mostly unmolested except for the stash hole drilled into the control cavity cover. No crack, breaks or anything that can't be tidied up.
Questions. Were the early Rico's set necks, cause this one appears to be? The control cavity cover is either bakelite, a composite or aluminum. They are both lite and very rigid, not cheap plastic. The headstock veneer appears to be holly or rosewood. What can people tell me about these? I should probaly just text my friend as he has owned several of these.
Needless to say, I'm looking forward to restoring it, no matter what it is.
I feel like this was likely originally a natural finish?
Progress stripping it
Stash hole in cavity cover. Somehow everything now makes sense....
Looks to be an early NJ series, most were neck thru or bolt on. There were some set neck
I'd have to see the heel to be sure
HS cap on them was usually rosewood, fretboards are rosewood. Body's were usually a combo of maple and mahogany
For $200 it's a nice starting point to customize
I'll post some pictures of the heel. The neck heel looks just like the blue Rico on reverb right now. The joint is in a super odd place. I was originally hping to do it in a clear or natural finish, but I may just end up doing GRW or some other solid color. Were the pickups in the early Japanese Eagles Dimarzios?
B.C. Rich Eagle Bass 80s - Blue | Reverb
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The heel on the set necks was very blocky , not my favorite visually.
GRW would look great on it.
Pickups were Gotoh which are Japanese DiMarzio DP122 copies
