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Pictures of the Indie brand Rickenfaker basses

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:46 am
by blazer
http://www.nederlandmuziek.com/assets/indie_irk_bass.jpg

http://www.nederlandmuziek.com/assets/indie_irk_bass_black.jpg

Took me a while to find pictures but here they are, the Indie branded Rickenfaker basses.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:00 am
by rickaddict
Thank goodness that sort of rip-off junk doesn't show up in my neck of the woods. I've only seen and held one fake Rickenbacker bass in my lifetime.

I've seen quite a few real Ricks in action, and have played hundreds of the real deal.

Thank you RIC for putting all of the time, energy, and money into shutting down as many of these parasites as you do.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:47 am
by jdogric12
That bass looks pretty fugly.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:24 pm
by iamthebassman
Bridge looks easy to intonate tho' Image

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:45 pm
by kcole4001
The proportions of those are a little off.

I've held just one faker. It wasn't badly done aesthetically, but my 7 year old son could easily make a better playing bass than that one.
Absolutely the worst bass I've ever picked up.

Supposedly the Ibanez copies were well made, which isn't hard to believe considering how nice a lot of their guitars are, but they're STILL not as good as a Rick!
And, of course, they're still illegally made copies.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:50 pm
by cheyenne
Bad.

Real bad.

I hope Rickenbacker burns them to the ground.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:01 pm
by ricnbacker
I find it funny they didnt copy the headstock.
did they get to that part and think, if we change the headstock maybe. eh who knows what they were thinking

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:28 pm
by johnallg
Yeah, ya gotta wonder.... could it be "maybe RIC won't notice"?....

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:46 pm
by rickenbrother
Those fakers would be nice after a good setup...in a fireplace.

Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:31 am
by rickfan63
They changed the tailpiece to a regular bridge, like RIC would let that difference slide and not go after them.