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Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:09 pm
by Rickissippi
Hilarious, Grey. What a great find; thanks for sharing.
However, you forgot to mention the rare option of Gibson Custom "metal tulip" tuning keys.
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:09 am
by jimk
sloop_john_b wrote:Don't like humbuckers Jim? My Les Paul does a real good Clarence White impression!
No, it isn't that. It's that I don't care for boogered-up Rickenbackers. What's the point? If you don't like Rickenbackers, don't waste your money buying one, only to try to make it sound like something already equipped with your favorite common garden variety humbucker.
JimK
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:10 am
by sloop_john_b
jimk wrote:sloop_john_b wrote:Don't like humbuckers Jim? My Les Paul does a real good Clarence White impression!
No, it isn't that. It's that I don't care for boogered-up Rickenbackers. What's the point? If you don't like Rickenbackers, don't waste your money buying one, only to try to make it sound like something already equipped with your favorite common garden variety humbucker.
JimK
Can't neglect look, feel, and vibe though.
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:39 pm
by padraigwhelan
Why would somebody do that? Is there no end to man's butchery & treachery?
I need a lie down...
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:24 am
by jimk
sloop_john_b wrote:
Can't neglect look, feel, and vibe though.
And that guitar seems to have lost all three with those questionable (at best) mods.
JimK
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:29 am
by paologregorio
jingle_jangle wrote:Interesting. I'm gonna re-check. Maybe I'm having a senior moment...
cool, a JG non-slant fret model!
Paul, JH mentioned that not all 481 were slant fret after the RIC Outlet auction of the newfangled 481 one-off, in response to a post that asked how the guitar could be a 481 without having slant frets.
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:36 pm
by remstar
Its amazing what some will post on ebay....
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:43 am
by harveyrickenbacker
Ah memories. My first rick was a 481 with the slant frets. I hadn't played too many guitars before picking this up and I didn't realise the frets were abnormal until a friend pointed it out to me. I want it back!
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:54 pm
by octagon
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:11 pm
by octagon
jdogric12 wrote:If someone here buys this and wants to buy my last remaining pair of 481 pickups they can.
Yes please.PM sent.
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:26 pm
by Grey
IMO, that's more than I would have paid given what was done to it, but it's a fairly good price based on what these have been selling for. They've really shot up and it's going to be awhile before they come back down.
I'm eager to see what you do with it.
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:37 pm
by octagon
Grey wrote:IMO, that's more than I would have paid given what was done to it, but it's a fairly good price based on what these have been selling for. They've really shot up and it's going to be awhile before they come back down.
I'm eager to see what you do with it.
Thanks Erik! If I can get the 481 pickups from Jason than I can get 481 style pickguard made and I will be halfway there.
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:23 pm
by sloop_john_b
Mitch don't do it! It's cool as is!!
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:32 pm
by Rickissippi
Will it require (if you put it back to original specs) a new tailpiece, and doing something about those holes drilled into your guitar to accomodate the replacement one that's on there now?
Re: "Rare Options"
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:59 am
by Grey
That will look really cool. That tailpiece will still be an issue, though. Other than filling the holes and refinishing the body, there's not a lot you can do. Perhaps fill the posts and fit it with a Bigsby B5 to cover it up? That'd be rocking.
Infact.....
:evil:Hey! Stop making fun of my new guitar!!! 
