Guitar pick up's on ric bass

bary · Post by **bary** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:32 am

what do you think about this ?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=7316561031&rd=1.

incubus2432 · Post by **incubus2432** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:37 am

I think it is pretty typical of the overpriced hacked up garbage sold by Guitar Center.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:43 am

I agree with brian, and the price is a bad joke, of course, but a guitar pickup on a bass is not necessarily a bad idea. The toaster-top neck pickup on a v63/c64 is a guitar pickup, with 6 polepieces. To quote Seinfeld, "not that there's anything wrong with that!"

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:07 am

the toaster, horseshoe, high gain, hb1 and hb2 pickups are ALL guitar pickups ... the high gains for bass just have fewer iron slugs ...

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:47 am

It's always great to see such lame jobs as the one at issue, where the G string is way out of alignment with the relevant polepiece(s), being hailed as the ultimate electronics upgrade. Wow!

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:41 am

And, it's also described as a Tuxedo, when it is not.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:59 pm

sold $1699.00!

edski · Post by **edski** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:49 pm

Steve...why is that not a Tuxedo? Please educate me!

Amazing that hack jobs like that get sold for obscene $...and my wife won't "allow" me to hack on any of my guitars!

(When I mention thnking about modding the new Laredo she says "you're not doing anything to that guitar!" LOL!)

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:41 pm

A Tuxedo doesn't have sharkfin inlays, and it has a white fretboard with black micro-dots. Kinda like this...

mikeylc · Post by **mikeylc** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:43 pm

Am I missing something? It shows as ended with zero bids. Did it sell somewhere else or another listing?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:13 pm

my mistake.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:17 pm

Steve... wait a minute: I thought there were only basses like that! Was there a Blackstar guitar? a Redneck? a Shadow?

mikeylc · Post by **mikeylc** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:02 pm

Thank goodness! I couldn't believe that someone would pay that for a stock 1980 much less one this jacked up. Of course stranger things have happened. It's been relisted by the way, same price. Between guitar center and R&R Vintage I can decide on who smokes more dope when it comes to pricing.
Ilan - I have seen a couple 360 tuxes but none of the others that you mentioned.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:02 am

I have to ASSUME that since they made a guitar like that in each style...that there are guitars out there, somewhere in the RIC universe...I have no info on those, other than the one I posted is #6 of 30, and is serial # IO xxxx (Sept.'87)

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:03 am

Thanks for the info Mike and Steve.

Back to the guitar pickup question: are guitar and bass toasters identical?