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I've had two dreams about rics actually, but the most interesting one was that me and a pal of mine somehow got into Friar Park (George was still alive) and managed to steal George's 360/12OS. We got home and just sat there, looking at it, and the guilt started to build up because we stole from ...

jingle_jangle wrote:

deaconblues wrote:It's a very nice paintjob (if you're into that kinda stuff), just don't understand why people always paint the bass horn blue instead of silver.

Not blue. It's light gray with silver pearl. Shimmers slightly. Cool shadow makes it look blue.

I know I'm late, but you did a great job, Paul!

Taking off the octave strings significantly decreases the string tension and you would very likely have to loosen the truss rods to compensate. Since your guitar is modern this isn't all that hard to do (older guitars use a different truss rod set up that I understand is trickier to adjust without ...

sys700 wrote:What year is your guitar?

The one I'm wanting to try it with is a 2012

Just a random thought.. What kind of adjusting, if any, would I need to do to my ric if I were to take the octave strings off and just leave the usual 6 on?

johnnysain wrote:Seen it 1000 times already.

Not a fan of marring Ricks.

I understand, but I wouldn't say that it's marred. To some maybe, but its mainly just customization on their part.

Isn't that the PW job for BS?

I figured it was PW's attempt, I believe I've seen the post from 2 years ago or so about him doing it.. Out of the attempts I've seen, Paul's really seems the most correct to me. It's such an odd paintjob, though you could say the same about George's strat. I'm ...

Looks like someone redid Macca's old 4001 "bloody bass" paint job. Really neat... Just thought I'd share!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rickenbacker-38 ... 3a7ff8961a

One of my all time favorite finishes..