I hope you're enjoying your new Ritter...! Whether you like it or not, you have now been given the Ritter owners club member #19 - if you like, tell me the serial# of your bass and I'll add it to the list on page 8
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I hope you're enjoying your new Ritter...! Whether you like it or not, you have now been given the Ritter owners club member #19 - if you like, tell me the serial# of your bass and I'll add it to the list on page 8
Cool! Ritter Club! Can I get in on this? I'll post pics when I can install the drivers for my Cam on another PC. In the meantime....I bought 0503 from Ben last year. He's a great guy. Info from the certification document.... It's a Roya 4 in Red Champagne, Gold Hardware, Maple neck, ebony fretboard, Bone nut, Piano - High Gloss neck finish, Transparent high gloss body finish. Weighs 9.9 lbs and was built on 8.07.2005
It'd be this one then:
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Nice - I like the little light 'stripe' on the fretboard!
Ha ha - KICKASS! Thanks Thunderitter - yep, there she blows. Ritters are awesome. Jens is a true Badass! That's cool you have a pic of Ben's old, My new Ritter. Ben is a great guy and really gave me a great deal. This bass is in mint condition. Not a scratch! Take care- Dennis Maron - Silver Spring, MD
Wonderful ! Two new club members in one day...!
Your bass is a real beauty, I love the combination of the black neck/fretboard and the red/purplish body. Is that a multi-laminate body like the yellow/blue ones Jens has made? I heard those are a bit on the heavy side, which I guess is confirmed by the 9.9 lbs youtell us here - my 5-string Platinum only weighs 7.2 lbs, but that's pretty extreme low weight
Until you get pics up here, we can live with those on Ritters homepage:
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Oh, and you're now member #20
Welcome !EDIT: Dang, Thunderitter beat me to posting those pics by distracting me with PM's...!
Wonderful ! Two new club members in one day...!
Your bass is a real beauty, I love the combination of the black neck/fretboard and the red/purplish body. Is that a multi-laminate body like the yellow/blue ones Jens has made? I heard those are a bit on the heavy side, which I guess is confirmed by the 9.9 lbs youtell us here - my 5-string Platinum only weighs 7.2 lbs, but that's pretty extreme low weight
Until you get pics up here, we can live with those on Ritters homepage:
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Oh, and you're now member #20
EDIT: Dang, Thunderitter beat me to posting those pics by distracting me with PM's...!
Ah cool! The Ritter Website has these pics. Waycool! Thanks for the # and the kind words. As much as I love this Roya, I'd love to order a Jupiter 6 in the near Future. We'll see... Take care - DM
I'm not that big a Ritter-nerd! But I'm enough of one to know that you can get pics of most of Jens' basses from 03xx on on his web-site!
How's your dog doing?
(got distracted and Basdyret beat me to that one!)
Ah my pup....he didn't make it. This is a really small world. I take it you know Marco? He's a great guy and I felt really bad about his Classic 5. It got lost and I wasn't sure if it would ever be found. I see that it was because Knarlybass has it now. My dog got hit by a car and the $ that would have bought his classic went to vet bills. All for naught, my dog died two months later due to complications.
Thanks for asking - Take care -
Dennis
Ah Now I remember Thunderitter - you and I sent a few emails back and forth as well as IMing during that whole fiasco with the bass being lost. OK, I'm with it now...
Hello this is Johnny O'C AUSTRALIA YOU WANTED TO KNOW THE NUMBER.... it is 0648 Date of Birth 13/2/08 I AM HAPPY TO BE #19 TWO NEW MEMBERS IN ONE DAY WELCOME ABOARD, THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM!!!
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Hello this is Johnny O'C AUSTRALIA YOU WANTED TO KNOW THE NUMBER.... it is 0648 Date of Birth 13/2/08 I AM HAPPY TO BE #19 TWO NEW MEMBERS IN ONE DAY WELCOME ABOARD, THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM!!!
Thanks - but how can your number be 648 if it's from 2008? My Platinum from 2006 has number 636, and Jens usually uses the year as the first digit, so with that logic yours could be 848...?
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I always thought the serial was given to the bass when it was started, not when it was completed! My 0347 was finished in Jan 04 for example.
Could it be this bass was a while in finishing? Or maybe a '07 completion and then sitting around in between Germany and Oz, etc
Could it be this bass was a while in finishing? Or maybe a '07 completion and then sitting around in between Germany and Oz, etc
Hmm... Interesting...! I must admit I've just followed the logic of the owners gallery on Ritter's homepage, where all serials in 2005 start with 05, etc etc, so I assumed that those were the years they were finished.
That, and then the fact that the last bass in the year 2006 on the page is number 647 !
Well, it can't always be easy - I guess I'll know a little more about the logic in Jens' serials when I get my new Roya, it should be any day now...!
HI GUYS THE NUMBER ON THE CERTIFICATION SHEET SIGNED BY JENS IS 0648, AND THE DATE IS 13/02/2008, THAT'S ALL I CAN TELL YOU, SO WE ARE JUST GOING To HAVE to LIVE WITH IT !!! I THINK YOU WILL HAVE TO TALK WITH Mr RITTER to FIND OUT ABOUT DATES & SERIAL NUMBERS and HOW THEY ARE ISSUED, KEEP PUMPING THE LOW END!!!JOHNNY O'C
Alright, then...!
I'll have to e-mail Jens anyway to arrange shipment of my bass, so perhaps I can ask him to help solve the mystery !
I'll have to e-mail Jens anyway to arrange shipment of my bass, so perhaps I can ask him to help solve the mystery !
Alright, then...!
I'll have to e-mail Jens anyway to arrange shipment of my bass, so perhaps I can ask him to help solve the mystery !
So what do you think your serial will be?
I've been wondering the same - I paid the deposit in September last year, but the bass was finished around July this year... Let's see what number it gets, perhaps that can also shed a little light on the system Jens uses.
Wait...
Ebony ONE PIECE NECK THROUGH?
***, gotta cost a ton, and gotta neckdive like nothing else.
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