Official Color Speculation Thread

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:45 am

Thanks Eric,

I feel better now.

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:15 am

Where was Sister Rosetta Stone?

wints · Post by **wints** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:40 pm

Apple green, yup, it's good...

White/white, with tri inlays, even better...

White/white with dot inlays, the best...

Purely personal preference I may add.....

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:45 pm

Andrew, please put some strings on that green bass!!!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:49 pm

And paint it white.

wints · Post by **wints** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:58 pm

I have Rikk, just trying to shrink the pics now!

In the meantime...
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/wintz63/detail?.dir=5a33&.dnm=2180re2.jpg&.src=ph

wints · Post by **wints** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:58 pm

Or Seagreen...

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:17 pm

Droooolllll....

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:50 pm

I just slid out of my seat!

squirefan01 · Post by **squirefan01** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:00 pm

Wow. That is a beautiful bass. I haven't had such a good first impression of a Ric since Steve Cooper's BlueBurst shots.

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:01 pm

I drive a blue van and I LOVE to play the blues but I do not like a blue guitar! Sorry guys....

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:40 pm

So Wints, does that bass play as nice as it looks?

wints · Post by **wints** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:46 pm

Actually, no Bob!

After stringing it up recently I remembered there was a reason I left it in the case for 15 years and just played my old white bass!

It has a huge thick neck for a 60's bass. Unlike any other I have seen from this period. Club like, very much like a 2000 bass I had. The fretboard radius feels flatter, but I think that's just due to me being used to much thinner necks in relation to my playing style.

It has had the usual neck problems and the action is very high due to the 60's headstock angle, and even after I put some 40-95 strings on it, it was still way too much for my liking. To think that it used to have 45-105 Roto's back in the 80's...

It needs a very good sorting out, and that will be the next task.

Meanwhile, it's back in the case again....

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:22 am

That's a DAMN shame... and a shock considering everything I've read about 60's 4001 necks...

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:45 am

Andrew, it looks much better with strings. It looked to naked without them. Too bad on it's playability. I'm sure you'd have some takers if you were to sell it.