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Guitar pick up's on ric bass
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:32 am
by bary
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:37 am
by incubus2432
I think it is pretty typical of the overpriced hacked up garbage sold by Guitar Center.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:43 am
by ilan
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!"
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:07 am
by jwr2
the toaster, horseshoe, high gain, hb1 and hb2 pickups are ALL guitar pickups ... the high gains for bass just have fewer iron slugs ...
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:47 am
by rickcrazy
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!
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:41 am
by atomic_punk
And, it's also described as a Tuxedo, when it is not.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:59 pm
by rictified
sold $1699.00!
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:49 pm
by edski
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!)
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:41 pm
by atomic_punk
A Tuxedo doesn't have sharkfin inlays, and it has a white fretboard with black micro-dots. Kinda like this...
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:43 pm
by mikeylc
Am I missing something? It shows as ended with zero bids. Did it sell somewhere else or another listing?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:13 pm
by rictified
my mistake.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:17 pm
by ilan
Steve... wait a minute: I thought there were only basses like that! Was there a Blackstar guitar? a Redneck? a Shadow?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:02 pm
by mikeylc
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:02 am
by atomic_punk
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)
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:03 am
by ilan
Thanks for the info Mike and Steve.
Back to the guitar pickup question: are guitar and bass toasters identical?