Homemade 4005#2
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:49 am
this is the second in what I hope is a long line of 4005 styled basses that I`ve had the pleasure to make,hope you like it!!
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:54 am
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:56 am
No pictures?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:18 am
The lacquer seems to make it invisible...
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:50 am
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:51 am
...or it camoflages into the background of his post very well.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:52 am
Not working for me.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:54 am
He just doen't want our legal department to see this.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:57 am
John - did you see the 4004LK copies in the "There are different versions of the LK?!" thread?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:06 am
Yes, and we're already working on it. It's believed a member of this board is the responsible party.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:57 pm
Lynch them...Not just for making copies, but because they don't look so good.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:04 pm
Er, I'm lost.
This English guy is MAKING 4005 knock-offs - and he posts them...er.. here?!
Hell, he'd have been better going to the RIC forum, we're far less lenient.
This English guy is MAKING 4005 knock-offs - and he posts them...er.. here?!
Hell, he'd have been better going to the RIC forum, we're far less lenient.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:59 pm
I hope his knock-offs are better than his postings. I canna see nothin.
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:44 pm
On the subject of LK copies......I was looking at getting a 4004Ci project of mine carved ala-LK with a skull and bones theme. So while it is LK influenced it shouldn't cause much of a legal stir. Odds are I'm just going to go with a non-standard refinish instead.
One other semi-related matter.....if I restore a Ric or modify one massively are there any issues? Example.......I buy a 4004Ci with a badly twisted neck that turns out to not be fixable. I then saw off the body wings, purchase a neck-through neck with a blank headstock then proceed to rebuild my Ci. I decide to make it a 5 string and shape the headstock like a Ric and use my TRC and for p/u's use the most tasteful pair of Barts I can land that covers the string spacing nicely. How upset is the Ric legal department at my project. I take an unusable Ric and resurrect it as something else....similiar but not a Ric (and would never be "passed" as one BTW). Just curious since I am going with a "basket case" 4004Ci shortly and while I hope I can restore it to stock, if I have to do something drastic I'd be interested to know specifics of where the lines are that I shouldn't cross.
I wouldn't see the above example as an issue but at what point does a Ric cease to be a Ric? When does using the TRC or copying body and headstock shapes become a problem?
Odds are I'm just going to go with a non-standard refinish instead. One other semi-related matter.....if I restore a Ric or modify one massively are there any issues? Example.......I buy a 4004Ci with a badly twisted neck that turns out to not be fixable. I then saw off the body wings, purchase a neck-through neck with a blank headstock then proceed to rebuild my Ci. I decide to make it a 5 string and shape the headstock like a Ric and use my TRC and for p/u's use the most tasteful pair of Barts I can land that covers the string spacing nicely. How upset is the Ric legal department at my project. I take an unusable Ric and resurrect it as something else....similiar but not a Ric (and would never be "passed" as one BTW). Just curious since I am going with a "basket case" 4004Ci shortly and while I hope I can restore it to stock, if I have to do something drastic I'd be interested to know specifics of where the lines are that I shouldn't cross.
I wouldn't see the above example as an issue but at what point does a Ric cease to be a Ric? When does using the TRC or copying body and headstock shapes become a problem?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:32 pm
Brian, the neck was worse than first thought? Are you sure its unsalvagable? Ted did some nice things to a very bad neck on one of those before.