Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Furthermore, just merely an observation, one would think the copying of,(or whatever you wanna call it), RIC parts would be a pretty fruitless venture. Most owners don't want fake parts, and RIC legal will put you out of biz. Seems like a pretty shoddy business idea to invest in this practice.

whojamfan wrote:Here I was, seeing the title of this topic, thinking Billy Zoom had gone over to playing Rickenbackers
Billy is/was/is the guitar player for the Los Angeles band X.
Scott, stop scaring away the new folks! Oh well, if only they new what an interesting sort most of us are anyways

I initially thought the same thing! Great band!

rkbsound wrote:

whojamfan wrote:Here I was, seeing the title of this topic, thinking Billy Zoom had gone over to playing Rickenbackers
Billy is/was/is the guitar player for the Los Angeles band X.
Scott, stop scaring away the new folks! Oh well, if only they new what an interesting sort most of us are anyways

I initially thought the same thing! Great band!

Me too!

X is one of my all time favorite bands. I thought the post was about them.

hwestman wrote:I apologize for entering this forum. I obviously am not pure enough to reside here. I mistook this for a place along the lines of TDPRI, Offsetguitars etc...

Could some moderator please delete my account,thank you!

Hah! As they say at somethingawful.com..."lurk more."

It's a pain ( and $$ ) to pursue trademark infringement issues.. for any manufacturer..

.. and if you don't diligently pursue every instance you become aware of.. you jeapardize your hold on your design.

and I <gather from the long running lawsuit Fender has waged re: Telecasters ) .. they sure as heck with they had been more heads up before letting the Tele and Strat body style be copied by every T, D and Harry. That horse is way outta the barn.

Poster got his feelings hurt. Sorry... that's the world...

(.. although: The RIC crowd is pretty rabid toward all things Rickenbacker! - for good reason! )

whojamfan wrote:Here I was, seeing the title of this topic, thinking Billy Zoom had gone over to playing Rickenbackers
Billy is/was/is the guitar player for the Los Angeles band X.
Scott, stop scaring away the new folks! Oh well, if only they new what an interesting sort most of us are anyways

I thought this was about the band X and Billy Zoo as well. I met him at NAMM, but I didn't think I'd have any effect on him switching to Ricks . . . . .

If we can't call non Rickenbacker toasters, 'Toasters', how about calling them 'Bread Browners'?

i.e. A typical Ebay listing could be....
"A Chinese made Rickenbacker guitar copy complete with ****** spaghetti tailpiece and bread browners"

A word of warning though, 'Bread Browners' should not be confused with 'Bed Browners', which of course should only associated with Fender Guitars.

You got me with... "bed browners" Rob - made me think of that scene from Trainspotting.

godber wrote: You got me with... "bed browners" Rob - made me think of that scene from Trainspotting.

Too funny

There was a series of fake toasters on ebay a few years ago called "Broodroosters"...

emac.

weemac wrote:There was a series of fake toasters on ebay a few years ago called "Broodroosters"...

emac.

Broodrooster is Dutch for Toaster somehow I think you already guessed that.
If I want to buy a Rick here I have to ask for one with broodroosters or maybe a hoefijzer in vuurgloed

Ric_MEL wrote: . . .and I <gather from the long running lawsuit Fender has waged re: Telecasters ) .. they sure as heck with they had been more heads up before letting the Tele and Strat body style be copied by every T, D and Harry.

This just may be a syntax problem, but that trademark appeal action (not a lawsuit) is long over. Their marks for the body shape were invalidated and are now free for anyone to use:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... r0410.html

This decision further reinforces our need to be diligent and police infringements as we see them.

whojamfan wrote:Furthermore, just merely an observation, one would think the copying of,(or whatever you wanna call it), RIC parts would be a pretty fruitless venture. Most owners don't want fake parts, and RIC legal will put you out of biz. Seems like a pretty shoddy business idea to invest in this practice.

That's another thing I don't understand. There's almost no market in these fake parts and it make no business sense to invest in tooling for these. The low volume assures that there isn't any money in it; from a purely business standpoint, these makers would have better luck in duplicating high volume or some routinely replaceable components.

What is TDPRI.....I don't get it.

Telecaster Discussion Page Reissue. It's a forum for Teletwangers. Lots of good stuff on that forum, a real group of characters. Much like here. I don't really see what the OP is upset about.