The Fun Series

[admin]

What about a RIC with a 480 type body and 650s look, let's say a wide neck, ""hum-free"" pickups (call me nuts), 650s bridge...neck through body...paint it white...do black hardware..c'mon, kill me...but wouldn't that look death cool???
I always felt that they could have done more justice to the 480s guitars (which I think are really cool, but I've just seen them on pics), if they did some updating on it...it was the seventies, when you needed a Les Paul lead sound...okay, let's call it the fun series...and it's great fun to post it here, so tell me about your wildest dreams and your fun and fantasy ricks....

[RAT]

how bout a dbl. neck 480 light show...or one in that new gold color....
with a 12 string and a 6 string neck....dbl. bound body....
2 vintage Picks in the neck and middle and a real hot single coil hi-gain style in the bridge on the 6 string and 2 vintage scatter wounds in the 12...
RAT

[Landon]

How about a 4004 FIVE-STRING Bass with a nice flame-maple top with a satin finish, like tobacco, natural, and colors. With LED lighted fingerboard dots--(optional- for a few thousand dollars more)-with soapbar pickups like Bartolini or Basslines or something and active/preamp electronics to boost those highs when needed. Or new special custom RIC soapbar type bass pickups. Some sort of pickups that might be like those on other high-end pro basses..but let's keep this a Rickenbacker though..Original in it's own right..
Offered in fretless and a 6-string for those who have the huge hands that can play those damn things...Of course this bass I could never afford if it ever existed...probably cost a gazillion dollars...Only in my dreams..I love the one's I've got anyway, and would probably play them instead...

[Frank_S]

I think a 355 or a 325 Deluxe with the desert gold paint job, large triangular inlays, bigsbys, toasters, and plexi-glass pickguards backed by crushed white pearloid, 1 7/8 thick, and bound on the top only!.
How about some red and royal blue 325's with silver or mirrored pickguards?
Or a flame-top 325? Or all black, f-hole, no pickguard 325? Same in white.

Ah!!!!! I'm thinking about this and I haven't even gotten my 325c yet. doht....

[Rezzo]

That's fun! My dream RIC would be a 650 with a little change:
-should have a thicker body with rounded edges
-a non-laquered rosewood fretboard
-no cheap looking pickguard
-gold colour, like a Les Paul, even the neck and the headstock
A great RIC lead guitar

[ric480]

Peter: don't lament the 480. I've owned a '73 and a '81. I've never regretted not getting a Les Paul back in '73 or '81 and certainly don't today (and my back thanks me daily!) Now, a lightshow 480 with a real hot super high gain pup at the bridge (like mine has now) would be awesome !!!

[Alberto_T.]

Give me a 330 with a thinner top and two modern pickups....and a trapeze tailpiece, the 'R' looks good but is difficult to restring...ever tried that in a gig with nervous fingers?

[Roadie_4_Hire]

Alberto, it's time for you to go big time and hire a roadie!

[Jake]

Newest RICK:
A small solidbody in the shape of a 360, in Gretsch orange...

[anonymouse]

Sort of a "body by Jake"? hee hee

[Adam]

Give me a tourqouise 330 with gold plastic parts...and toasters...and a trapeze tailpiece...white binding...

[tomrat]

How about a Rose morris version of the 360-12 dbl. bound with the F hole with the dot neck, and no triangle inlays.....
TOM

[Frank_Burns]

The funniest monster Rick might be a tripleneck 360F lightshow, slanted frets, ...two Bigsbys....Frankenstein pickups....

[tom]

a 325 lightshow would be different...tom

[Mike_F.]

If someone will read this: Give me a 650 in the new desert gold colour. Thank you.