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That is quite quite beautiful.

...just to keep this thread alive:

Seems that some special edition Ricks are going in certain countries...

Do you know if something is planned for Italy?

What is the story on those fire engine red basses . Was it just a special run to be sold in Germany ?

morrow wrote:What is the story on those fire engine red basses . Was it just a special run to be sold in Germany ?

Yes exactly. Along with a run of "Fire Engine Red" vintage style 360 12 strings and some doubled bound 360s that like this bass have maple fretboards with full length inlays.

Shame that Canada does not have its own distributor - these are done for them - not on the request of end consumers like us.

UPDATE: RIC just posted another pic to their facebook page

That binding looks gorgeous .

Ontario_RIC_fan wrote:

morrow wrote:What is the story on those fire engine red basses . Was it just a special run to be sold in Germany ?

Yes exactly. Along with a run of "Fire Engine Red" vintage style 360 12 strings and some doubled bound 360s that like this bass have maple fretboards with full length inlays.

Shame that Canada does not have its own distributor -

Yes Brian they would definitely match our National flag...Red and white...

I want one of those so bad.

I believe they are calling it "Fire ALARM Red" (for those keeping score).

Glad I'm living in Germany now....

...they are quite expensive here, we expect about +3000€! ...although tempting with the CB binding!

First the return of walnut wings, then the full width inlays, now we see a glimmer of hope with the checker binding, if they would just put it all together in a standard model, I would be all over it.

Would that these had checker on the neck and red position markers...

Not red......BLACK crushed pearl sharkfins would have put this over the top !!

Still, a gorgeous bass.

mc2NY wrote:Not red......BLACK crushed pearl sharkfins would have put this over the top !!

I think that would be a good choice for the maple boards in-general; I think black options on the W series would have been great, but I really liked the black binding period, and wish they had not discontinued that as a trim option.

Pickguardian has a great material called "Black Pearl" that would look awesome inlaid on a maple board.

I didn't mean red inlays though; I meant red dots on the side of the neck, as featured on some RIC instruments from the early 70's.