Rickenbacker bass C64s Rare on Ebay

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:37 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rickenbacker-bass-C64s-Rare_W0QQitemZ7402541495QQcategoryZ41439QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Check out the horns on this bass, they look very strange.

oyoyobeatle · Post by **oyoyobeatle** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:41 am

It looks like V63...

rickinroma · Post by **rickinroma** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:28 am

The headstock is "regularly right handed" and it's weird for a C64S...

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:34 am

Looks like a V63 with the horn shaved, to me.

j_gary · Post by **j_gary** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:52 am

I agree Dave. There is even a Freudian slip in the written description, "63s".

Might just be the photo's, but the proportions in general seem at odds.

I'd be curious to see the serial #

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:04 am

The horns have simply been given the 'McCartney treatment'.

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:11 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7384939218&ssPageName=STRK:MEAFB:IT

Looks JUST LIKE THIS ONE!!!!!! I thought it looked fimiliar. Check out the grain on the neck at the 12th fret...Same guitar???

rickinroma · Post by **rickinroma** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:17 am

Tony, if it is real, would be a bargain

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:28 am

VERY true Francesco!

The way these prices are going I'd almost believe anything!

Still shaking my head over the 4001CS sale on Ebay. I never thought they would ever be worth so much even though..... I was offered $300.00 MORE than that selling price for my baby about a year ago, and turned it down! I know, I know, I can hear the groans and I can almost see the shaking heads.

How did that song go again? "Money can't buy me love"?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:10 am

rickfan63 · Post by **rickfan63** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:28 am

That's exactly right and to my knowledge no V63 ever came from the factory already sanded down. Only the C64S comes like that AFAIK. It is a nice bass though.

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:37 am

It is in fact the same bass. Beautiful.

apollo11 · Post by **apollo11** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:22 pm

Funny thing is that these non-factory horns are more accurate to McCartney's bass than the horns on a true C64s are. A real C64s' horns are too sharp-edged and more broad. They need to be sanded a bit more to have rounder, sleeker edges, IMO.