CAN YOU ORDER A NEW RIC WITH.......?

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:32 am

Lights inside the headstock?

Very unique idea!!!

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:47 am

How about a double bound 360 with a bound headstock--- but instead of the usual binding they install something like rope lighting so the outline of the axe is lit up...

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:48 am

Also with options of chasing and blinking..

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:55 am

Tasteful, Godfather...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:17 pm

In the shape of a Christmas tree, Don?

qmoder · Post by **qmoder** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:47 pm

So if you exchange your present guard you can get say a gold one. I have a Montezuma Glo and I think that the Gold guard and truss rod cover would look great on it.

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:40 am

I still like the look of the gold guards on a Fireglo finish...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:24 am

Dan: Montezuma Brown, but it DOES Glo in the sunlight...

qmoder · Post by **qmoder** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:44 pm

That looks like a gold guard on yours Paul? Unless its the light. I can get a gold guard but not a truss rod cover. I wonder how silly that would look?

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:22 am

If you have a raised letter TRC you can paint it gold, then paint the letters in black. This works well.

krick · Post by **krick** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:50 am

The letters were actually "painted" with a permanent marker.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sun May 01, 2005 3:07 am

Dan, it is a gold guard. I make my own guards on a laser cutter, and paint them a slightly different and warmer gold color than the stock Rickenbacker color. I also made the TRCs on my Ricks on the same machine, with Rickenbacker's knowledge and my agreement not to give or sell them to anyone else.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Sun May 01, 2005 2:47 pm

Good. At least you told them. But now I want a black one!

qmoder · Post by **qmoder** » Sun May 01, 2005 7:33 pm

Nice Paul. Did you cut them out in clear and paint the back in gold? Did you paint the letters on the TRC in white?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:08 am

Dan, They were laser-cut from clear acrylic and the backs painted in gold. The lettering is laser-engraved and painted with a special mirra-chrome paint ($1200.00 a gallon!) that actually looks like polished chrome. It just looks white in the pictures.