Some Bad Scribbling...

lyle_from_minneapolis · Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:23 am

On eBay.

Graffiti of the Year?

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:58 am

"C. Pike" I wonder...

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:22 am

What's the URL?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:24 am

The owner turned up at the RIC booth at NAMM and tried to talk Ben Hall into displaying it in the "RIC Museum", whatever that might be. I recall he had quite a long rap concerning all the people who signed it.

The L. V. Beethoven signature was over the top, however, IMO.

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:35 am

Is the bass salvagable? If all the garbage on top was sanded off and it was refinished? And are those wide inlays on the fretboard?
Paul, I visited L.A. in 1998 and I called the RIC Corporate Offices and asked about the hours for the "RIC Museum" which was described in the Smith book, I believe... At that time I was told that the "Museum" had closed and was no longer open to the public. But I remember seeing something about it in the Smith book and I was a little bit disappointed to find out that I couldn't go over there and drool over some vintage and rare guitars and basses... Maybe Mr. Hall will take pity on me, and give me a private tour on my next visit to the L.A. area.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:39 am

They are not full-width inlays. This is a mid-to-late '73.

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:41 am

Are you sure ?, mid to late 73 wouldn't have chequered binding

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:43 am

Many mid '73 models had checkered binding and the non-full width inlays. By the end of the year, though, the checkered binding was no longer used.

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:46 am

Fair enough, I'd always thought that both the inlays and binding had changed by mid 73.

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:47 am

He probably means May to July which was the period where CB and small inlays coexisted. Joey has an Aug. 73 with that combo, only one I've seen.

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:50 am

I have an April '73 with the full length "transitional" inlays, and a May '73 with the "new" inlays (below). As you can see, checkerboard binding continued a bit further into 1973 than the full width inlays..

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:56 am

Ahhhhh, CB binding...... Sigh.......

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:58 am

Don'cha just love it?

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:12 am

Sigh.....

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:27 am

Sure do John B..