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Taj Mahal Darren?? Methinks your music room should be known as a sacred site!

Post 350
We start them on the road to RAS very early over here! My son Kieran(3yo) with "his" (so he thinks)350.

Cute, Greg! Hope you washed the chip grease and tomato sauce off his hands first!!!!

Thanks Aitch, chip grease and tomato sauce?? I'll remember that when it's time for post 360 with young Paul! You live and learn!

GAS=Guitar Acquisition Syndrome, I presume. RAS=what? I seem to have MIAS, Musical Instrument Acquisition Syndrome.

I suspect I've got some sort of disease. I've been surfing the web and stashing photos of nice looking Ric 360/12 strings and saving them to a special file folder.

Oh--now the light comes on RAS=Rickenbacker Acquisition Syndrome.

I think I'm gonna be very sick for a long, long time.

Greg, your son looks good with that 350! What's his next RIC?

It's a delightful malady, Jim! I have a very bad case of RAS right now too and am loving it.

It does help to have Asperger's Syndrome though, like I do. If you are high-functioning enough, you just get so much more enjoyment out of specific areas of life, and can immerse yourself totally in a number of things at a time (at the expense of the ability to read social cues and have street smarts, and to lack an intuitive understanding of many social skills). Buying, playing regularly, and enjoying my Rickenbackers is one of those highly-intense pleasures.

But I know that at some point, I will begin mixing and matching pieces of my less-collectible Rickenbackers and making custom one-of-a-kind versions. When I tire of one of these "instruments that RIC never made", built free of trademark issues out of all-RIC components, I will sell it on the Forum or on ePlay, buy more Ricks, and do it again.

It is a pattern I have followed with many other talent-interests all my life. Oddball ones like the following: three-gun CRT high-end front projection monitors, antique car and hotrod restoration and limited manufacturing, guitar and bass amplifier and cabinet systems design and manufacture, computerized graphics systems development, circuit design and performance simulation software engineering, non-invasive medical diagnostics imaging and visualization systems design and manufacture, computer and satellite communications systems contract engineering, telecommunications systems development, becoming my own competitive local exchange carrier telephone company, etc etc etc. All lovely and passionate addictions, and all relatively profitable as well as pleasurable.

But for now, it is RAS all the way!!

Elys,

You are both blessed and cursed at the same time, but looking on the positive side as I have the propensity to do, you have obviously overcome the challenges associated with AS and have discovered how to use your talents with a sense of joy. I tip my hat to you. May your love of all things Rickenbacker in particular, become a constant in your life.

"And thanks for NOT commenting on the patched-up drill holes where I screwed up the location of the wall batons!"

And I thought they were just spots on my notebook's monitor! Really nice partial collection pic Darren!

Thanks Joey, in the case behind Kieran is my 2005 360/6 fireglo,but thats reserved for post 360, and his younger brother,Paul George!

Greg, I would to see the instructor's face in 3 or 4 years when Kieran shows up at his first guitar lesson with that 350.

That'd be priceless Richard! Might take the videocam along for that lesson!
Instructor:" So, young fella,show me your little guitar in that case!"
Kieran: "Ever held one of these , mister?"
Instructor passes out!!!

"Ha! I knew it Darren. She has a "master" plan also. Our wives must talk behind our backs methinks? They seem to be far too aligned in their thinking."

I wonder if they have their own secret forum? Maybe some kind of support group...

RIC-ANON
Hope for families and friends of problem Guitar players.

"RIC-ANON
Hope for families and friends of problem Guitar players."

I would think it would be for Guitar collectors!

She has a "master" plan

I wonder if her "Master" plan is letting Darren think those guitars are his.