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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:56 pm
by bigbajo60
ACK!
It's done!
Congrats!
Remember to lemme see 'er when she's home, so I can get properly jealous... you lucky so 'n so!
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:25 am
by gray
Very nice! I love to see old instruments looking like new again. They come back to life.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:32 am
by teeder
Congrats, Javier!
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:50 am
by rickaddict
I've got a JULY '73 I'll trade for your '68 Javier!
Cool '68. Nice to hear that its up and running again.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:07 am
by thx1955
Dale,
Do you have pics of your restoration work done for Javier ?
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:12 am
by wints
Once again, just gorgeous Javier. I love that aged MG look.
Elys, you would be mad to change that wonderful original full of mojo FG. An original FG 60's Rickenbacker bass is not to be messed with...
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:37 am
by henry5
Elys, if you're so dissatisfied with the '68 I'll be happy to take it off your hands...
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:05 pm
by pflash4001
Thanks for the compliments, guys. I won't get rid of this one (or the '79 for that matter) for anything. I plan to ADD to the collection. I haven't told my Dad about it. I think I'll surprise him and show up at my parents' house with it. Here's a photo of my Dad and my '79 at a family reunion. He was up jamming with my uncles.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:13 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
Hey Elys, how about Peacock Blue?
Sorry, Homies, I was born irreverent...
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:28 pm
by elysrand
That is simply INSPIRED, Mark! How rare would that be? So cool... Only one person in the world with a PeacockBlueGlo 1968 4001
We will need to add PBG to the list of abbreviations too.
Yeh, and the rest of the Forum would be piling up the wood to burn me at the stake for such unabashed heresy......
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:44 pm
by henry5
That's wierd. I've just been contemplating exactly the same refinish (I love Peacock Blue Pedullas).
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:44 am
by lyle_from_minneapolis
Nor was I kidding... Give Paul a shot at that one and all of those forumites lining up for a "mink" just might change their minds!
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:09 pm
by dale_fortune
Javier...In June of 1973 I was working at the Rickenbacker Factory, so if you find one, I had a part in building it.