Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

jingle_jangle wrote: RIC's most recent action (within the last 45 days!) in this arena was to send C & D letters to Indie, who markets Rick guitar and bass copies which are made in Korea, and to dealers selling "Indie" products. They have had repeated successes in keeping counterfeits out of the US marketplace, beginning with the very first attempts.

High time. I met the CEO of Indie Guitars at a UK trade show neary three years ago & talked about their copy bass (played it too - it was woeful, considering how bloody expensive it was) and he was under the impression that because it had a different headstock shape he'd be immune to C&D orders! I did try & put him right about that - but well, you can't make 'em listen!

J.

Intriguing. I've been told that part of their pitch was that they were a "legally licensed entity", presumably referring to a license to do business, not a license to manufacture bad Rick copies. Apparently either dealers were taken in, or chose not to ask the question that would sort out the distinction.

joshua said "Set neck. I kind've wish it wasn't illegal to buy these things secondhand, but I think I understand why it is. They'd make for fun projects though."

exactly,i would like to find an unbound copy,and make my faux 1957 4000 from it. i COULD do that with my 74 4000,but prefer to keep it (mostly) the way it was made.... most of the copies made were of the 4001 variety with neck and body binding,triangles,etc.....but there are some dot-neck unbound ones out there from the 70's,probably almost as rare as the real thing...