Rickenfaker on ebay

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:51 am

looks like a mapleglo faker,says its from the 80s no jack plate, look how dark the fretboard is and the weird inlays.probably ibanis...

dminer · Post by **dminer** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:52 am

Where? did you forget something...ie. the link??

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:52 am

Here's another fake being passed off as the genuine article.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Category=4713&item=3777523350&rd=1

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:11 am

So it has "very light wear," yet the stereo jack had rusted out, the toggle switch had broken, and the bridge pickup needed replacement because it was weak. It sounds like maybe RickenFaker quality isn't quite up to the genuine article.

Lets take a survey...What percentage of these guys do you think know they are selling a fake?

My call: 80%

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:44 am

if he didn't know then why did he start out with a 99 cent bid???

clues to spot this as a faker ... the case ... the walnut stripe is too wide ... the fretboard is too dark ... the dots by the volume knobs ... and the wood grain doesn't look like a 4001 mapleglo to me ... Ric usually uses a higher grade of maple for mapleglo basses ...

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:53 am

I'd say 95% know they're selling a fake

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:29 am

He seems to think he had a real Ric 4001 ... after I told him it was a fake he pulled the auction ...

dminer · Post by **dminer** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:51 pm

Is this the latest faker? Strange woodgrain on the upper half...no serial# on jackplate...smooth pup wire channel rout.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3778732914&rd=1

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:48 pm

I've seen this kind of grain on attic joists!

dminer · Post by **dminer** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:07 am

Exactly Gary!!! I've never seen a rick with that cheap of look in the wood!! It almost looks like plywood...dm

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:30 am

Looks like Pine, scratch and sniff would tell all !!!

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:56 am

Three things stand out to me.
1) The position of the strap button on the upper horn is consistent with a copy. If, as the text states, the strap buttons are Rick type Straplocks then it should be closer to the tip of the horn.

2) The wood grain is a bit odd though wood is highly variable.

3) The stripe appears to be a bit too wide.

4) The wire route from the neck pickup to the cavity is WAAAAY to clean to be an early to mid 70's Rick. Every one that I have seen that was made prior to '79 has a series of slightly overlapping forstner bit holes there. My '80 has a smooth route as did a '79 JG I owned years ago.

....attic joists! LOL

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:57 am

Wait, that's four things.......

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:45 am

Hey Ted,

emailed your k12 address a few days ago about getting together. Did you get it?

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:56 am

I agree. Its a fake. Thats why I started the following thread that nobody saw. Actually everyone probably did see it and then said: "WTF?"(to themselves!)

Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 08:19 pm: Edit Post Print Post

Hello! My name is...FAKER.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3778732914&rd=1

Please be fooled by my poor photography and spend your hard earned dollars on my swindling, thieving ways. Really...I mean...I need the money to feed my heroin addiction. I just sold my brother's skis, my Dad's plasma screen television, and some of my mother's jewelry but...well, you know how addictions are. Its time for me to step out and con somebody I'm not related to out of a few bucks. So what do you say? Do we have a deal then?