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Bassmouse wrote:- I have been idly wondering about building a Detroit Lions-themed Strat copy or Telecaster copy - body in silver, with an ebony fretboard with the little blue lion logo outlined in white for the fretmarkers, and a big blue lion on the front of the body! The only thing holding me back is my lack on inlaying/marquetry skills - those little lion fretmarkers would be tricky!

TheWonders wrote:

cjj wrote: But, what if you have one of these?

That looks like a Cowboys Rick to me.

BuddyDog wrote:

TheWonders wrote:

cjj wrote: But, what if you have one of these?

That looks like a Cowboys Rick to me.

I thought it was Raider Ric!

cjj wrote:Hmm, never seen any sort of raid goin' on at a rodeo...
Cowboys? You bet! Raiders, don' think so...


Oh wait, you guys must still be talkin' 'bout that strange game where they run up and down some pasture fightin' over some odd lookin' punkin, being chased around by convicts with whistles...

cjj wrote: Oh wait, you guys must still be talkin' 'bout that strange game where they run up and down some pasture fightin' over some odd lookin' punkin, being chased around by convicts with whistles...

Tommy wrote:Your design is tricky but can be done simpler. Instead of putting Lions all over it, just lay your guitar on the ground and stomp on it like Suh to get footprints on the guitar.

Actually, your idea is pretty cool. Forget the fretboard markers. That would be insane to do. Just spray paint the guitar Lion silver and put an official Detroit Lion decal on it. Then I would put three blue stripes down the center of the guitar like the blue stripes down the center of the helmet.

jdogric12 wrote:

cjj wrote: Oh wait, you guys must still be talkin' 'bout that strange game where they run up and down some pasture fightin' over some odd lookin' punkin, being chased around by convicts with whistles...

so I had me a Big Orange. I did.

Tommy wrote: Man, that's some headstock for this Super Bowl. I'd definitely take that out on Super Bowl Sunday and play that sucker. Heck, that thing should be in one of the Super Bowl commercials. Rickenbacker should spend four million dollars for a thirty second commercial featuring that headstock.

Interesting side note here. I wonder why a guitar company does not advertise on a huge program like the Super Bowl. Can you imagine if Rickenbacker put together a magical thirty second commercial that played during the Super Bowl. John on Ed Sullivan didn't reach as many people as the Super Bowl does and look what "The Ed Sullivan Show" did for Rickenbacker. Oh, it would be cool to see a Rickenbacker commercial during the Super Bowl.