Sometimes you just luck out

[gareth]

So I'm sitting here at home, losing my shirt on Pokerstars when the 'phone rings and it's a friend who has a Shadow, but is sort of sponsored by Dean, so he has to play what is essentially the ugliest, worse sounding bass in history. He asks me if I'm interested in any spare RIC parts, as he has a few little bits and pieces laying around. So I ask him what he's got, and he tells me he has the original Shadow TRC (silver on black) and a new unused bridge saddle and hardware for sale. I asked him what he wanted for them, and he says "Er....$50 sound OK?"

I've never driven over to someone's house that fast.....

Hopefully, he hasn't been on eBay and seen what he could have got for this stuff. Now I have all sorts of styling options for my new jetglo 4001 that Paul W is finishing up for me.

[johnallg]

Too bad he didn't have a set of tuners! Sometimes ya just gotta grin and bear it when these bargains come along. Remember, he set the price! Congrats.

[jdogric12]

Were Shadow TRC's silver on black? or white on black? I thought the latter, but I've been wrong many times before.

[sloop_john_b]

Were Shadow TRC's silver on black? or white on black? I thought the latter, but I've been wrong many times before.

I also thought they had white lettering?

[gareth]

Were Shadow TRC's silver on black? or white on black? I thought the latter, but I've been wrong many times before.

I also thought they had white lettering?

I just presumed it was a spare off his Shadow, as his Shadow now has a white on black one on there, though that might not be the original one. It's a genuine RIC TRC though, so it's off any 4000 series that had a silver on black TRC.

[marc61]

well if it is a Shadow TRC, then it was WAY overpriced. I mean, they made only like 50 Shadows, right? So, how many people could actually need one?

Nice deal . For $50 I would have bought it if it was cracked. You could always trade it in.

[rickaddict]

I think Shadows had white lettering. But Laredos had chrome/silver lettering, so maybe your TRC is from a Laredo. Either way you can't go wrong.

[bassduke49]

According to my examples, the Shadow was white lettering on black plastic, the Blackstar, chrome lettering on black plastic. The Laredo is also chrome on black (I traded my Laredo's for a standard white one with Joey -- black looked goofy on Fireglo to me).

[doctorwho]

White lettering on black background:

Shadow headstock

[gareth]

According to my examples, the Shadow was white lettering on black plastic, the Blackstar, chrome lettering on black plastic. The Laredo is also chrome on black (I traded my Laredo's for a standard white one with Joey -- black looked goofy on Fireglo to me).

Damn ! Now I'll never sell it

I might swap it for a gold one at some point. I might put a gold pickguard on one of my basses at some point, and that would look good. Mind you, I also have a black 4001 pickguard spare, so I might one day make my jetglo 4001 ever blacker.....

[s4001]

So you couldn't convince him to sell you the whole bass, eh?

[gareth]

So you couldn't convince him to sell you the whole bass, eh?

I've been trying believe me. I bought one off him a few years back that Paul W had to restore completely. It was essentially trashed. It requires just about everything. He's done the same to his Shadow. Sprayed it all black with rattle can paint (over all the checkerboard binding). Painted maltese crosses all down the fretboard, and stuck stickers on it. I keep offering him $700 for it. It's not that lowball an offer either, as it's going to take about 2K to get it back to factory specs. He'll crack one day though.

I just had a look in the little bag of parts he gave me with the bridge. There's two new nuts in there, and two new truss rod nuts as well as all the bridge hardware and an allen wrench for the saddle adjusters. The deal just keeps getting better and better.