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I can't find my guitar!

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That's not a guitar; it's a chameleon! Image
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Interesting you should post that, as there has been much discussion about trademarked shapes relating to the usual suspects: TRC, body shape, bridge shape, etc., but in all this discussion nobody has pointed out the similarity in shape of this pickguard to RIC's basses. It is different enough but I can not recall any other instrument with anything close to this shape.
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Wow, I never even noticed that before Jeff!
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Been like that since the '60s!
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Jeff, I said something about that weeks ago but it slid. I too wondered about the 4000 series shape.
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I didn't catch that, John!
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Since the reissues and the attendant postings, that pickguard was the first thing that drew my attention.

I also forgot earlier - it is really uncanny how the body is just hinted at against that colorful background. Kind of like a Klingon cloaking device is at work.
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Well, it is a Klingon guitar, isn't it?

I remember these guitars from back in my youth when the originals were pretty new! I did play one back then that a friend of mine owned. Heavy, man!!! Image
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Heavy indeed. Someone came over to our music house with a DA bass and I tried it out - lucite is indeed heavy.
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