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Anybody got more info on this instrument? Or some done pictures? I dunno... It's fascinated me in just this one photo. I don't know how. So, more photos please!
EDIT: It's the white 360
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I take it we're talking the white with black binding?

As an aside, that's a LOT of Montys lined up.
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Looks like a pair of one-off's... a white C64 and a white/BT 360c63 6 string like the Japanese market got(in FG of course)? I'm assuming that this is the final color since they are sitting with a bunch of finished guitars.
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I am so sorry! I didn't specify which guitar! Post edited
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I remember someone eluding to them being a custom for someone....my brain cells, they are vanishing....this was the run off to Japan I believe....the RI RM1999's and the Monty's to boot....
I'm sure someone will remember....
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Note, also, the presumably ebony fingerboards. 8)
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And the Schaller M4 tuners. And you thought RIC didn't have a custom shop. And the other four Fireglo basses? Too late for V63s. Probably going to become that "1999" batch that went to Japan.
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The headstock is reversed on that bass, so how can that be a "1999"?
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When was the picture taken?
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Aw, come on. Those fretboards are way too dark. They've gotta be fakers...
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I'm pretty sure this was during the RM1999 RI run.
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My memory is of this photo appearing during the discussion about some limited guitars being made just for the Japanese market. I could be wrong though, as my memory often is!
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I believe that photo was first posted in this thread:

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johnallg wrote: As an aside, that's a LOT of Montys lined up.
I believe those are Japanese-run 310 MBs.
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jps wrote:The headstock is reversed on that bass, so how can that be a "1999"?
Jeff, I was referring to the four Fireglo basses to the left. They have the "normal" headstocks, but no V63s have been made since Monte Brown was introduced, so the photo would have to be 2004 or later, and during the run of the C64 with the reversed headstock. So that leads me to believe that the four are part of the "1999" run made for the Japanese dealer/customers.
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