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A bass player here, not up on the six string side of the house. Is that a horseshoe pup?

Yes Ron. That's a horseshoe pickup.

Hmmm...

The seller has 7 negatives and 2 neutral feedbacks in the past year.

jingle_jangle wrote: all the nonsense speculaation about it being "possibly assembled by Semie Mosely"...etc. I wonder if maybe Rossmeisl sneezed on it?

I have it on good authority that it was assembled in Mos Eisley! It's a Jabba the Hut Custom Shop one-off!

libratune wrote:Also the back of the body should be hollowed out with a plastic or fiberboard cover that is affixed by multiple screws around the perimeter.

Not so, here are two '57 800's and a '57 600:





The earlier examples had thicker bodies, hollowed out in various ways, with a back plate. They also had a German carve that went all the way around the guitar. Later ones, around '57, had totally solid bodies and a carve that ended at the pickguard.

libratune wrote:It should also have a "long" jackplate/strap button assEMBLY with the serial # stamped on it, like this:

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The solid-body 600's and 800's were thinner, so they didn't have enough room to fit the jackplate on the end of the guitar. All of the solid 600-800's I've seen, and some 850's, have the serial on the bridge plate, and have a jack inset into the body with no chrome plate:


Like on this 850:



Also, while it is clearly a refinish, that doesn't mean the fretboard isn't original. There have been a few weird, one-off combos with different finishes/options:

Kira must have fainted by now after seeing these photos!

***CLUNK***

See?

Ah, well, just have to content myself with pictures till the real thing comes along.

Is the 800 one of your ultimate dream Rics, Kira?

They're just so dang cool!

Yup, Thomas, top of the list.

kiramdear wrote:Yup, Thomas, top of the list.

They are very cool, aren't they!

i knew i saw that fingerboard before on something so - i finally figured out where the fingerboard came from! - microfrets