5 String prototype

[Ivan3000]

I don't know if this has been disgussed, but check this out...
http://www.howl-co.com/stock_bass/st_ba ... to_fg.html (I don't know how to attach a picture, sorry tell me please!)
But this looks like a 5 string 610C64 headstock bass...
Its pretty cool. (what is weird is the set neck and the large fret dots)

Mr. Hall, can you shed some light on this. It's been going through my mind of late

[uusak]

Dude that looks like it would be a great bass but it should have a set neck does anybody else share this feeling?

[bassduke49]

That's one of Dane Wilder's 3000 conversions.

[Ivan3000]

That's one of Dane Wilder's 3000 conversions.

Okay, so its not a factory prototype...thanks

[cheyenne]

I like Dane's take on the Rick headpiece.

[MiroN]

we talked about it here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=393351

this was my idea:

[Ivan3000]

we talked about it here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=393351

this was my idea:

looks nice

[shamustwin]

Not that RIC doesn't have enough to do, but the idea of basses in their guitar body styles makes me drool.

[jingle_jangle]

One thing we're missing is that a handbuilt Dane Wilder conversion, is being sold by an Orient dealer as (an implied factory) "prototype".

My point being that, Dane's work is very high quality and true to form, but the sales people have a way with hyperbole--both stated and implied--which, besides jacking up the price by implying a factory connection, can also rewrite Rickenbacker history in a flash and confuse the actual circumstances.

[ricmic]

Good point Paul. Just the implied reference is damaging. Mark

[johnallg]

I've always wondered what the future (at least 10 years) will think of the mods and special colors and remaking of new models into vintage models that we are doing now. Once the principles involved here are no longer active online, how many of these creations will be confused with the factory?

[aceonbass]

I just about fell outta my chair when I saw this. Yep, it's one of my earliest modded Ricks. It started life as a beat 3000. I sold it a few years ago on Ebay to someone I could tell was an Asian exporter. It still has the HotDotz LED side marker set-up on it too. Besides the obvious, I added two screws to the neck plate, and there's an HB1 under the pickup cover. The bridge insert was machined from solid brass and chrome plated. The low B on this thing was as authoritative as any I've heard. Just ask Joey

[bassduke49]

Once the principles involved here are no longer active online, how many of these creations will be confused with the factory?

And right there you have put the finger on the value of print media (as long as it is occasionally updated), and I hope that "my project" will be found valuable to separate perceptions from reality. This is just one reason why a book on Rick basses is needed.