Ugly duckling??

[targ]

Hey all, have you ever seen this Ric ?

I wrote to them asking if it was just a washed out photo, and they said no, what you see is what you get and that is just the way it is. It is supposed to be jet glow. but its' gray.
Question, wouldn't QC at Ric catch this, or do they let out seconds? The price is right, but wow, I cant get over how off it is from "jet Glow"
Could you grow to love this Ugly duckling?

[jwilli]

As long as I was looking for a "gray-glo", sure!

[cmuk]

I like it a lot!

[captsandwich]

Could you grow to love this Ugly duckling?

Easily. I think it's beautiful.

[jdogric12]

RIC announced they would be sending out a few oddball things over the coming months, and this looks like maybe it's one of the grayglo's they were talking about.

[jimk]

"Could you grow to love this?" he asks. Absolutely! It's a Rickenbacker, ain't it?

JimK

P.S. How does a guy go about snagging one of these one-off geetars anyhow?

jk

[longhouse]

Oh my... I love the graphiteglo!

[shamustwin]

Very nice, unique to boot!
I've seen only one other, a 4003.
These are not seconds or flawed.
When a 350 shows up in Greyglo (off-black?), I'm all over it!

[scotty]

I love that Greyglo but as far as a ugly duckling im sure with any ric they all grow up to be beautiful swans

[targ]

I love that Greyglo but as far as a ugly duckling im sure with any ric they all grow up to be beautiful swans

I guess that was my point, is this a swan in the rough? I would love a jetglo, but am unsure of greyglo

[targ]

Imagine that, that thing sat there forever, I post a picture here to ask some questions and its gone. I decided to pull the trigger on it but someone beat me to it

[scotty]

[firstbassman]

Didn't this come up before about a little less than a year or so ago?
And JH (or someone else at RIC) said that they switched paints and some guitars came out grey.

Or am I completely crazy and making this up?

[red_rob]

not seconds??

come on people....

[targ]

not seconds??

come on people....

It would have been with any other guitar builder, but I digress.
Lets face it, it was a mistake.
It was priced like a 2nd, 1000 + 200 and add 75 for good measure. That included shipping.

But honestly, I wanted Jet GLow and I'm not sure I would have been happy with one that looked like a mistake.