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Wildberry wrote:

ajish4 wrote:Prices are going up on these, eh?

Is the story that goes with the bass true? An american company making copies? Illegally?

I don't know Werner, perhaps when if we can hear from Jon in the UK, he's our specialist on such matters....sorry I couldn't be of more help.

ajish4 wrote:sorry I couldn't be of more help.

I'm the one who should apologise... for hijacking a bass thread

Wildberry wrote:

ajish4 wrote:... An american company ... Illegally?

I completely understand your astonishment - no American company has done anything illegal ever ...

Well, it's so hard to sell the fakers, when you do sell one, ya gotta get top dollar for it

Here in Italy there are a lot of Fackes, so...
I'm writing a article for a magazine to guide buyers to find clones.

Mario, you do the exact opposite of me.I wrote up a whole web page to discourage people from buying fakes and help them from getting fooled into thinking they bought a real one that was actually a fake.

Please do not glorify the fakers here. There are other forums available on the internet for that.

No Joey,
I read your web site, I like it very much!
My article has the same intent of your website.
Recognize and not cheat!

Mario, I misunderstood your post. Thanks for clarifying.

I saw a 2005 4004Cii 4-2-5 conversion in Translucent red go for less than $1100 on eBay in the last 2 months. I'd imagine you could find some other real Rics going in that price range, what kind of sucker would pay $1100 for a Univox with a cracked neck.

a buddy of mine's girlfriend got drunk saturday nite, went berzerk, and picked up his rickenfaker bass and proceeded to smash his whole apartment including two televisions. the neck has a long crack from 9th fret to truss adjust channel, the control cavity area broke off destroying the pickguard and each control has a piece of its own pickguard ! what is sadning is this bass was fireglo, dual trussrod neckthru, checker binding (which i'd never seen before on a faker)had a neck to rival my '70 rick, and had rick pickups in it that i installed for him . it sounded great ! this bass was so close to the real thing you have no idea. the original pickups were cheap **** as they all are. so, i get my pickups back and my 4001s style knobs. mr. hall has one less faker to worry about...and to boot, the guy paid $50.00 for it. his girlfriend apologized for her deed, and will be buying him a new 2009 fireglo 4003 at a local rick dealer. i said"dude, what about the apartment and the tv's...he replied "screw the other stuff, i'm gettin' a real rick !"

i remember seeing a natural rickenfaker by gretch at a mall music store in moncton back in the mid '70's. the headstock looked like a wal bass side by side headstock. bolton neck and big chrome parts. anyone else ever see one ?