INTERESTING CASE...

[rickenbrother]

It looks like a faker to me.

[rickaddict]

Fake.

[johnallg]

Faker - fretboard wood, stripe too wide, maple inferior, FG wrong.

[winston]

I figured as much.

[jingle_jangle]

Thanks to all our resident experts. Now I know more about fake-spotting in photos; never have a problem in person.

Incidentally, I just finished restoring a mid-'70s 4001 with a fretboard every bit as dark as this faker's...

[kennyhowes]

Well, we know it's not a gennie RIC case, because RIC would NEVER use TIMES ROMAN BOLD, badly-spaced, as their corporate symbol.

Ha! True. (Except maybe in the case of our guitar straps.)

[rickboy88]

"The fretboard looks too dark for a legit Rickenbacker. I'd say a its a faker."

Roger that. The bridge looks a bit funky too.

[72rick]

There's allot more than the fretboard that's not right(or Rick) on that bass!

The Tuners, the script writing on the name plate, fretboard and inlays, shape of the upper bout.........

It's a classic faker!

It could actually be a decent playing faker too!

I helped out the owner of a small music store here in town a couple years ago who had a Mapleglo Faker-backer.
He had it on hold for a guy who traded a G&L for it!

I brought him my '72 Fireglo and my '74 Walnut 4001's(when I still had it) to show him what the're supposed to look like!

Two things about this I thought were sad; another store owner, who should have known better told him it was "real" and the kid with the G&L still wanted to do the deal after it was positively iD'd as Non-Rickebacker.

It actually played ok but, was water damaged and was still marked at $900.00! High end should have been $300.00 at best for a severely mojo'd vintage Fake-n-baker!

I remember selling a very nice playing "Electra" 4001 copy from the music store I worked at in my early twenties!

Well, enough of that!

Long Live Real Rickenbackers!

Garret

[jingle_jangle]

Yeah, but everybody knows that REAL Ricks are made in Belgium, Garret...

[72rick]

Hey Paul,

Is Belgium South of San Francisco?

[johnallg]

Yeah, but everybody knows that REAL Ricks are made in Belgium, Garret...

I thought it was Germany... Isn't that where John Lennon got his?! So they're made there. right?