There are different versions of the LK?!

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:25 pm

I've found a couple of guys who could do the carving. Need the right bass of course.

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:40 pm

Does no one have a problem that someone's making Lemmy copies?

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:23 pm

Could you make one out of a 4004 CheyenneI with the walnut body and maple neck? You wouldn't have the star inlays without putting on a new fretboard...

twangs · Post by **twangs** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:34 pm

My Lemmy has the same pup configuration as the instrument in the first picture (congested) and it also came with a black TRC. It is #9 and was made in 2001. I sent the black TRC back to Ric and exchanged it for a gold one.

I also took out the pups and put three sets of p bass pups in there, and painted the entire instrument a sparkly red color. Kidding.

P.S. Post #100 on my 42nd birthday. What a day!

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:59 pm

Happy Birthday, Tony!

j_gary · Post by **j_gary** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:12 pm

Tony, very funny, chest pain funny, you gotta remember there are old people on this forum.

Happy birthday young man!

twangs · Post by **twangs** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:51 pm

Young man? Thanks Gary - you made my day!!!

P.S. - Sorry about the chest pains - My bad.

P.P.S. I've been bumped up to "senior member". I feel old again...

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:54 pm

Good thing the 75th Anniversary "item" will be a Lemmy walking stick...fully carved, of course

Congrats on your birthday, Tony!

simer4001 · Post by **simer4001** » Mon May 29, 2006 8:10 pm

Going back to the education comment. As much as people are paying for the LK it still won't get 3 kids through Harvard. It wouldn't even get you a full year for one.

j_gary · Post by **j_gary** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:10 am

Steve. I think you may be on to something. A Lemmy bed pan, a Lemmy Help Ya retirement community. BRILLIANT!!!

Brian, I went to Harvard. It only cost me $7.50. I had lunch at the student center. As I think back, I believe the lunch menu was in Latin. Couldn't read the dang thing.

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:25 am

I've got one more year before #1 son starts college. He wants to go to the University of Miami. At 48K a year, I'm taking deposits on assorted vital organs.

I sure hope those LK's keep going up in value, because if he's looking at Harvard, he doesn't have a shot!

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue May 30, 2006 3:52 am

I went to UC Berkeley ... for about $2k ...

incubus2432 · Post by **incubus2432** » Tue May 30, 2006 4:15 am

The police academy paid me.

I'm just relaying what the owner of PM Blues told me when I inquired about one of the LK's last year. He wasn't interested in selling now because he has a young kid (or kids) and will hold onto the LK's until it is closer to college time and sell 'em for whatever he could get to put towards the education. He'd be better off selling them for $10K each now and investing the money IMO.

Personally I think that is a ****** thing for a dealer to do.....their job should be acting as a middle man between dealer and customer. Markups are one thing but hoarding of a limited edition Ric bothers me extra.

bob_the_bass · Post by **bob_the_bass** » Tue May 30, 2006 4:16 am

I went to Stockport Technical College for £0 (assuming you don't tot up how much I spent in the Students Union bar !!)

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:54 am

I agree Brian. I wonder if there's anything in the RIC dealer agreement that covers this type of situation, (at least in the case of highly sought after limited editions)?