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ben_brown wrote:Who's the guy in Japan who has and gigs a very good condition RM1999?

He has a 64. In excellent shape, too. Always nice to see eye candy in his posts.

Wow, thanks for that! I always wondered why there was the gap...

ben_brown wrote:Who's the guy in Japan who has and gigs a very good condition RM1999?

That would be Atsushi.

Here are some of the clearest front-on body photos I have of my RM 1999....same bass....different lighting!

Thanks for all the info guys. I'm soaking it up like a sponge. After I gather info, this project will come to fruition in March.

rickfan60 wrote:casting process which was done in sand.

So I believed until JH said that they were never sandcast.....
Have a look here:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=385282&p=488343&hi ... st#p488343

As near as I can make out they may have been gravity diecast...
Hopefully JH will chime in again and really clear up the mystery..

Eden.

Hey Wes!
I've got pictures of a real scungy RM..

Eden.

weemac wrote:
So I believed until JH said that they were never sandcast.....
Have a look here:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=385282&p=488343&hi ... st#p488343

As near as I can make out they may have been gravity diecast...
Hopefully JH will chime in again and really clear up the mystery..

Eden.

Jeez, I don't know then. Three people who worked in the factory back then told me the same story about pressing molds into sand.

rickfan60 wrote:

weemac wrote:
So I believed until JH said that they were never sandcast.....
Have a look here:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=385282&p=488343&hi ... st#p488343

As near as I can make out they may have been gravity diecast...
Hopefully JH will chime in again and really clear up the mystery..

Eden.

Jeez, I don't know then. Three people who worked in the factory back then told me the same story about pressing molds into sand.

I'd have to go with those guys personally Ted. If it was just one of them it's debatable, but when it's 3, and they were there at the time....

That is what I was thinking. One of them was Richard Burke.

So is the consensus that there are two types of 1999 HS surround? or are there more?



PS, Wints, what's up with the upper horn of your green bass. I just noticed how different it is in the photo above.

I don't think you will find many that look alike. The one on my '63 does not look like either of those. I am pretty sure there was some hand-trimming in the process. If Rickenbacker had invested in tooling to make them they would have looked exactly alike so it seems reasonable to assume some of the process was manual.

rickfan60 wrote:I don't think you will find many that look alike. The one on my '63 does not look like either of those. I am pretty sure there was some hand-trimming in the process.

Agreed, but I'm just talking about general appearance. Let's see yours

Oh, and I understand the irony of trying to reproduce a model of bass of which no two were alike. Just trying to get edumacated here

1965 wrote:So is the consensus that there are two types of 1999 HS surround? or are there more?

There are more; just look at Squire's RM1999 for a third shape.

I've also seen a few that are the same dimensions as the green bass above, but without as much carve on the sides of the lower half.

Squire's looks closer to the one I originally posted.