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Why, oh God...why?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:29 pm
by desertgoldenboy
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:34 pm
by atomic_punk
Not REALLY a Tuxedo...so it's not THAT bad, although it is hideous...look away...I believe the Tuxedos were made in '86? Same time as the Blackstar and Shadow...around that time anyway.
A Tuxedo has a white fretboard with tiny black dots and all white body.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:35 pm
by dean712
Yikes! Exciting...!!?? Um, no...
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:08 pm
by rickfan60
Tuxedo
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:56 pm
by rictified
This piece shows a bit of age, with a few dings here and there and one small spot of beltrash on the back. Now, for the exciting part… the previous owner replaced the pickups and the bridge with a rather interesting setup. First up is a DiMarzio “Hot Rail” style X2N guitar humbucker in the neck position. In the bass position is a DiMarzio P90 Soapbar… that’s right, a pair of guitar pickups on a classic Rick 4001 bass! To top it all off, the original bridge has been replaced with a black Badass II bass bridge. You’ve also got a nice chrome thumb rest on there. The neck is straight, the action is quite low, and the sound is booming! Don’t let this unique piece pass you by!
And at only...... $1699.00
Good thing GC doesn't overprice their Rics.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:25 am
by edski
Here's a pic of the actual Mr. Frankenstein:
Typical gc-**** from gc-creeps.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:44 am
by phlemmy
odd, i had an 80 that was white with BT, but my tailpiece and pup mounting thingy were chrome.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:53 am
by dswp
I am thinking of modifying my original “68” to look just like this one.
“Sike”
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:49 am
by atomic_punk
Bob, aren't the actual Rick pickups really just modified guitar pickups? Esp. the toaster and horseshoe?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:58 am
by rictified
Probably, but I just copied that krap right out of the ad, haha! I know the Ric toasters are the same pickups they put in the guitars. Those old Dimarzios were really hot and distorted, a lot of guys used to put them in their Les Pauls, I can't imagine what that bass must sound like.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:35 am
by greg_mitchell
...........Les bass! (I mean LESS bass).
Either way it's a shame what some people do to perfectly good guitars and basses.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:21 am
by jwr2
a few years ago I got a '74 4001 with a bad *** bridge already installed ... I tried many different pickups in it ... the Seymour Duncan humbuckers, a few different jazz pickups, a Ric hb1, and a kramer quad rail ... nothing sounded as good as a Ric high gain in there ...
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:44 am
by ken_swearingen
I had a pbass I swapped pickups around in it-Seymour duncans,bartilinis...I found the best sounding pickup was the factory pbass pickup.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:35 pm
by rictified
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:55 pm
by bobcat
Actually, those pickups might sound pretty awesome if you turned that thing into a piccolo bass (i.e. EADG but tuned an octave up). That would be a cool and unique (butchering aside) bass to play, and you could do Les Claypool stuff on it.