Why, oh God...why?

desertgoldenboy · Post by **desertgoldenboy** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:29 pm

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Saw this on ebay...an '80 4001 Tuxedo with 'mods'.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=7334802821&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:34 pm

Not REALLY a Tuxedo...so it's not THAT bad, although it is hideous...look away...I believe the Tuxedos were made in '86? Same time as the Blackstar and Shadow...around that time anyway.
A Tuxedo has a white fretboard with tiny black dots and all white body.

dean712 · Post by **dean712** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:35 pm

Yikes! Exciting...!!?? Um, no...

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:08 pm

Tuxedo

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:56 pm

This piece shows a bit of age, with a few dings here and there and one small spot of beltrash on the back. Now, for the exciting part… the previous owner replaced the pickups and the bridge with a rather interesting setup. First up is a DiMarzio “Hot Rail” style X2N guitar humbucker in the neck position. In the bass position is a DiMarzio P90 Soapbar… that’s right, a pair of guitar pickups on a classic Rick 4001 bass! To top it all off, the original bridge has been replaced with a black Badass II bass bridge. You’ve also got a nice chrome thumb rest on there. The neck is straight, the action is quite low, and the sound is booming! Don’t let this unique piece pass you by!

And at only...... $1699.00
Good thing GC doesn't overprice their Rics.

edski · Post by **edski** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:25 am

Here's a pic of the actual Mr. Frankenstein:

Typical gc-**** from gc-creeps.

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:44 am

odd, i had an 80 that was white with BT, but my tailpiece and pup mounting thingy were chrome.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:53 am

I am thinking of modifying my original “68” to look just like this one.

“Sike”

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:49 am

Bob, aren't the actual Rick pickups really just modified guitar pickups? Esp. the toaster and horseshoe?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:58 am

Probably, but I just copied that krap right out of the ad, haha! I know the Ric toasters are the same pickups they put in the guitars. Those old Dimarzios were really hot and distorted, a lot of guys used to put them in their Les Pauls, I can't imagine what that bass must sound like.

greg_mitchell · Post by **greg_mitchell** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:35 am

...........Les bass! (I mean LESS bass).
Either way it's a shame what some people do to perfectly good guitars and basses.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:21 am

a few years ago I got a '74 4001 with a bad *** bridge already installed ... I tried many different pickups in it ... the Seymour Duncan humbuckers, a few different jazz pickups, a Ric hb1, and a kramer quad rail ... nothing sounded as good as a Ric high gain in there ...

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:44 am

I had a pbass I swapped pickups around in it-Seymour duncans,bartilinis...I found the best sounding pickup was the factory pbass pickup.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:35 pm

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:55 pm

Actually, those pickups might sound pretty awesome if you turned that thing into a piccolo bass (i.e. EADG but tuned an octave up). That would be a cool and unique (butchering aside) bass to play, and you could do Les Claypool stuff on it.