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Where did I say I was put off by it???RIC_FACTORY wrote:You mean, like, the customers that have actually purchased guitars over the past four months and have no problem with it? Answer me this, why is it that the people that don't actually own one of these guitars are the ones put off by it? Kind of ironic, huh?I'm not judging your decision, just saying what I said. It 'd be nice if things like this were announced somehow. For the people who do care about ricks.
Yes I would.Sure you would have...I'd notice the difference for sure, if there was one to be seen at all over here, I dind't see the video either.
And okay, it's not a big deal after all, on a run of the mill guitar.
So you're comparing something like slanted frets, that would be completely obvious on first sight, to a wood nobody recognized until it came up in a thread four months after it went into production? I repeat, where do we spec bubinga on our website? Nice lob at our customer service by the way, way to cite an example from how many years ago?This reminds me of the story in one of the RIC books about slanted fret guitars being sent out to people who didn't order that, and getting no response to it.
Where did I say I was put off by it???I repeat: You mean, like, the customers that have actually purchased guitars over the past four months and have no problem with it? Answer me this, why is it that the people that don't actually own one of these guitars are the ones put off by it? Kind of ironic, huh?First of all I couldn't imagine not noticing that and second I couldn't imagine not caring for that either when I spent $1000 plus on a guitar.
I can imagine that in the pre hyper-infomation era people thought their model actually was like that.
Kinda "my bad, rickenbackers are weird/unplayable (pick one), and now back in it's case and under the bed"
none, and by now I'm beginning to think this is 'issue' didn't start on this forum but has a historyClint made a great point: The bubinga was also all over the map regarding coloring, just like this wood. Sometimes we got bubinga in that was browner than normal, sometimes it was very orange. This is wood, an organic material from a tree, not a cookie-cutter plastic material. Some of the CR looks more like bubinga than actual bubinga.#1 How much bubinga have you actually looked at in our factory?That last sentence is quite a bold statement
#2 How much Caribbean Rosewood have you actually looked at in our factory?
better would be "Wood (if available)"Now you're catching on!well it says rosewood, which covers a lot for sure!
Oh, so now you DON'T mind it? I thought you were saying that you would have been disappointed if you had ordered a Rick and got a rosewood fretboard?Where did I say I was put off by it???
I could show you bubinga, and in your infinite wisdom you would have no clue it was bubinga unless I told you. Plus, I'm sure you have seen at least a few guitars somewhere online built recently that had CR, but you didn't notice.Yes I would.
It IS possible that in a range of 7000000000 people more than one person knows something about wood.
The picture on page three looks nothing AT ALL like bubinga, not even from a mile away.
If it is not a comparison, then why did you bring up a completely irrelevant issue to Caribbean Rosewood? Why would you be citing something from a book that happened decades ago? I don't get it.
Where did I make a comparison?
I doubt I'm the only one that would love to hear you elaborate on that...none, and by now I'm beginning to think this is 'issue' didn't start on this forum but has a history
Nah, 'cause then you'll complain when it comes from the wrong tree in the wrong ecosystem at the wrong longitude and latitude on the wrong planet from the wrong star systembetter would be "Wood (if available)"
Intervene? Did you think you were going to convince us to stop with the CR? You saw what happened to Gibson!Now seriously, I'm feeling that even slight critisicm on this is not being taken too well,
and as I respect other people's business decisions, nor do I wish to intervene into that process,
I'll not post in this thread anymore.
Cool, then return it so that someone else can enjoy it!Matt Clark wrote:All I am saying is that if I ordered a guitar with a fingerboard that looked like the 330 on the RIC website and I got this with out previous knowledge, I might return it as it looks cheap and cheesy to me.
I don't care how many other people didn't complain or "notice," I would and I wouldn't like it. That's the point of this thread, what I think, and if anyone agreed with me--it's disturbing to me.
I've never seen a RIC, since I've looked for them starting in the late 70s, with anything even close to this type of neck, that wasn't modified after the fact. No matter how much wood you were to show me, and I guessing it would be much.
Joey, I think that's Paul's way of saying that he hopes someone left a new camera under the old Christmas tree!If I got any guitar and the fretboard looked like that, I'd be on the lookout for a pig with a diseased liver that had been removed...
RIC_FACTORY wrote:Joey, I think that's Paul's way of saying that he hopes someone left a new camera under the old Christmas tree!If I got any guitar and the fretboard looked like that, I'd be on the lookout for a pig with a diseased liver that had been removed...
