Rickenbacker Custom Shop
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- opticnerve
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Why does it open up upside down? Is this meant for those south of the Equator, only?
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Hmm, the inverting filter for the Southern Hemisphere seems to be flipping this picture over for me too...
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Yes, and aside from the reversed opening, does anybody have knowledge of such guitars being built?
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I was able to read it only because I was used to seeing the world that way during my photography outings with my view cameras!
- squirebass
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Um, Jeff, I believe you posted that picture upside down, did you mean to do it that way?jps wrote:I was able to read it only because I was used to seeing the world that way during my photography outings with my view cameras!
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Except for there being no color in that photograph, that is exactly how I'd see it when looking at the groundglass of a view camera. Well, the edges would not look like that, though. They'd be straight edges, whereas that photograph shows how the film holder blocks the outside edges of the film (the cutoff corners are the effects of the frame for the rotating back on the Linhof Technika III used to made that negative with). This image is from a contact print of that negative.squirebass wrote:Um, Jeff, I believe you posted that picture upside down, did you mean to do it that way?jps wrote:I was able to read it only because I was used to seeing the world that way during my photography outings with my view cameras!
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Oooh, I LOVE it when you get technical...
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Somebody's got to teach these guys the right way to make a fine photograph, right? How'd'do these fine days in NZ?
Here it is as you lay people would recognize it.
BTW, can someone with magical powers change the copyright date on the previous photo to the correct one of 1994, thanks?
Here it is as you lay people would recognize it.
BTW, can someone with magical powers change the copyright date on the previous photo to the correct one of 1994, thanks?
- opticnerve
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Maybe someone should move this thread to the Photography By RRF Members forum.
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Seriously. Thanks, Jeff!opticnerve wrote:Maybe someone should move this thread to the Photography By RRF Members forum.
...but back on topic. Is this just a back page in the ''57 catalog, Tony? Pretty amazing to think you could order stuff on-spec at one time (which explains a lot of the more unusual stuff that has surfaced over the years).
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As much maligned as the Smith book is, he does have lots of cool custom instruments in it from back in that general timeframe.
- opticnerve
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Sorry for taking so long to get back to you Collin!
It's actually prominently placed on the first page, on the cover overleaf.
The double neck in the Smith book is a good example.
Anyone else with pics of custom orders?
It's actually prominently placed on the first page, on the cover overleaf.
The double neck in the Smith book is a good example.
Anyone else with pics of custom orders?
- opticnerve
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BTW, the bass style sliding mute for the 6 string bridge is crazy!
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Ahhh, to only have that option today.