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GATSBY wrote:Sweet! Tuna Boats on Fire, That's a good name for a band!
Cheers,
Henry

I thought it was a thread about a band!

Love dem boats! Too bad RIC doesn't make 'em anymore.
JimK

dear mr. jingle ...interesting to note in most if not all cases,(i have seen an early 4005 with larger walnut wings from center) if a neck has a large width skunk stripe, the walnut head stock wings are further to the outside like the mid '70's neck construction. if there is no skunk stripe, the walnut head wings are more pronounced basically going from string nut width and slightly tapering inward with the fretboard taper. so 4001 neck thru construction has a taper from the rear of the body to the top of the head stock along the taper of the fretboard, and the 4005 has the same parallel neck construction as would (wood ) a mid '70's 4001 . just an observation.

Gorgeous!

...great artwork again, Paul! Congrats!

I'm drooling!

VRICKY63 wrote:Wow ! Those had almost the same effect on me as seeing Sophia Loren emerging from the ocean in boy on a dolphin !

Boy on a Dolphin...one of my own archetype flicks!

I recall seeing it in Chicago. Wasn't Victor Mature in it? (That would explain my Grandmother taking me to see it...)

Decades later, I dated the daughter of Vic's milkman, who told me the inside scoop on what an...er...amoral fellow he was...

BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS wrote:dear mr. jingle ...interesting to note in most if not all cases,(i have seen an early 4005 with larger walnut wings from center) if a neck has a large width skunk stripe, the walnut head stock wings are further to the outside like the mid '70's neck construction. if there is no skunk stripe, the walnut head wings are more pronounced basically going from string nut width and slightly tapering inward with the fretboard taper. so 4001 neck thru construction has a taper from the rear of the body to the top of the head stock along the taper of the fretboard, and the 4005 has the same parallel neck construction as would (wood ) a mid '70's 4001 . just an observation.

Yup. I think.

Wowwowwowwowwowwowwowwow!!!!

Beautiful work as usual Paul. Stunning. The double bound is a dream bass. Congratulations Steve and Ron on a gorgeous pair of PW specials. You too Paul for adding one of the most sought after Rics to your collection as well, impeccable as it should be.

jps wrote:Nice trio of 4005s, Paul.

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