Nekkid Tuxedo?

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:59 am

I kinda like it!

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:49 am

"I kinda like it!"

+1

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:00 am

Yep, that is your basic Tuxedo, Blackstar, Redneck platform.

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:20 am

Ted? Where have you been?!

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:22 am

Ted...you're alive! Hey, any new pics on the Faux-thousand-two?

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:10 pm

Hmmm,

It's up to US $1,152.88 and STILL has 5 days to go!

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:24 pm

No one here would dare to actually do that to a Tuxedo, but since someone else already did, it takes all the guilt out of owning this bass. I predict it'll go to $1700.00+.

ben_brown · Post by **ben_brown** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:47 pm

Yes...The reason maple is used under paint is because of the tight grain it has. You can't get a good finish painting over an open grained wood such as rosewood, bubinga etc.

blueflamerick · Post by **blueflamerick** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:30 am

I believe that I've seen one other Tuxedo like this (or it's the same bass).

It looks better stripped than with the white faded to bananaglo.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:39 am

I think it's a little *too" maple-y looking. But if the body and headstock were, say, Jetglo, and the maple fretboard was left as is, that would be too cool!

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:42 am

Ehhhh, you and your JetGlo.....

incubus2432 · Post by **incubus2432** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:27 am

I'd like to see a maple fretboard with standard triangle inlays.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:34 am

I wonder why they abandoned the maple fretboard on the 4004's? I really liked that.

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:36 am

Some of the copy 4001's had maple fretboards with black or pearl inlays so I think if RIC had done it, it would have looked like a copy.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:48 am

"Some of the copy 4001's had maple fretboards with black or pearl inlays so I think if RIC had done it, it would have looked like a copy."

And the look of them always makes me shudder, so I'm not hot to see the triangle inlays on maple on a Rick. Black dots look really good on the maple necks.

Look how the big black rectangles on a Geddy Jazz look. Too much for me.