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I kinda like it!

"I kinda like it!"

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Yep, that is your basic Tuxedo, Blackstar, Redneck platform.

Ted? Where have you been?!

Ted...you're alive! Hey, any new pics on the Faux-thousand-two?

Hmmm,

It's up to US $1,152.88 and STILL has 5 days to go!

No one here would dare to actually do that to a Tuxedo, but since someone else already did, it takes all the guilt out of owning this bass. I predict it'll go to $1700.00+.

Yes...The reason maple is used under paint is because of the tight grain it has. You can't get a good finish painting over an open grained wood such as rosewood, bubinga etc.

I believe that I've seen one other Tuxedo like this (or it's the same bass).

It looks better stripped than with the white faded to bananaglo.

I think it's a little *too" maple-y looking. But if the body and headstock were, say, Jetglo, and the maple fretboard was left as is, that would be too cool!

Ehhhh, you and your JetGlo.....

I'd like to see a maple fretboard with standard triangle inlays.

I wonder why they abandoned the maple fretboard on the 4004's? I really liked that.

Some of the copy 4001's had maple fretboards with black or pearl inlays so I think if RIC had done it, it would have looked like a copy.

"Some of the copy 4001's had maple fretboards with black or pearl inlays so I think if RIC had done it, it would have looked like a copy."

And the look of them always makes me shudder, so I'm not hot to see the triangle inlays on maple on a Rick. Black dots look really good on the maple necks.

Look how the big black rectangles on a Geddy Jazz look. Too much for me.