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Which are the copies on that LK thread?

Thanks Steve. I appreciate the kind words! Yes, that 4004C turned out well. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you Brian.

Steve and Ted.....I don't have the Ci yet. The seller needs it for a gig on 6/8 so I'll buy it from him after that. I would normally pass on a Ric with such an obvious problem but after seeing the work done on Ted's project I thought I'd give it a shot....plus the price is right. Sorry if I was unclear in my posting.....I was using a hypothetical situation.

Hopefully it is just a poorly adjusted or broken truss rod.......I'll start a thread on the project when I receive it and thanks for the offer Ted.

I have a similar question as Brian. I have been "re-necking"
4001's. Where is the boundary here?
I mean; as the owner of the infamous "half-a-bass" what can be done that would not be crossing the legal team at Rick?
Anything at all?

Jon....the mention and pics of the counterfeit LK's were in "There are different versions of the LK?!" thread but it was edited and the pics are gone.

All of the remaining pics are of authentic LK's.

A posting of mine responding to Brian seems to have gone missing- let me try it again.

Restoration of a genuine instrument is never a problem. Similarly, modification of a genuine instrument is the owner's right and privilege.

Creation of a replica or use of trademarked shape elements without an underlying genuine product is an outright infringement and there is no "fair use" or "personal use" provision.

I'm not sure if my post got through so i'll ask again,did rickenbacker ever patent the neck through design.

That would have been unpatentable. I've seen neck-through stringed instruments in museums going back several hundred years.

Mr. Hall....thanks, that's what I figured. I just wasn't sure where the line was. Taking a serial jackplate and a TRC only and building an instrument to put it on is probably a bit of a stretch! But doing whatever I need to get an authentic Ric up and running as I see fit is perfectly acceptable.

Brian, although I do not know what the problem is with the neck, please do remember that the neck could be heat-clamped to take out a twist etc. that adjusting the truss rods is unable to rectify.

I guess I missed something! Lemmy copies? Where did that come from?

I missed it too, Kevin! We snooze, we lose, I guess.

Might have been the photos, but to me, the fakes looked cheesey.

The fingerboard was too dark (no star inlays either), and the body looked like rosewood. The carved area looked smaller than a real Lemmy and the little spot for the controls looked larger and more stylized. The bridge looked like a Badass if I recall correctly.

The copies looked like they had only a single truss rod with carbon fiber rods on either side of them.