Green Ric @ Ed Roman

rogiercreemers · Post by **rogiercreemers** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:53 am

What's everyone's opinion in this green Ric Ed Roman offers for sale. It costs $2500, apparently, but am I the only one who thinks Photoshop was involved?

http://www.edroman.com/guitar/home_ric.htm

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:56 am

No that's a very rare( 1 of three if memory serves me right) 71 Ric.There was a thread about that guitar and it's twin somewhere here.

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:48 am

It's a photo of a real '68 330 "FSG" (Factory Shaded Green) from Peter's Registration Page, whose 330 sister was cropped out of the photo. (http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mccorp/rickrecollections1.html)

Check out this not very old thread at Voxtalks.com.
http://www.voxtalks.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=V15&Post=1604&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=2&Session=

By the way, I'd love to have a 4003 Greenglo just like that!!!

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:13 am

'68 I stand corrected. I thought about refinishing my '71 4003 like that but just couldn't do it.

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:24 am

Are we sure Mr Roman didn't go spaz with a spray gun. I question the authenticity of many of his guitars. For one thing he's got the Washburn Ace Frehley model as currently producing them with the authorization to do so. Washburn made this in the 80's, I never heard of a dealer making guitars still using the original producer's design and logo...

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:51 pm

Wouldn't that color be close to the Apple Corps Green that was proposed once upon a thread?

fury · Post by **fury** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:10 pm

I think it looks just awful. But then, I just don't like green. Not a suitable color for guitars, racing cars, or baseball uniforms.

blueflamerick · Post by **blueflamerick** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 4:18 pm

I like it. Mountain Dew glo.

ethanbennett · Post by **ethanbennett** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:49 pm

i had a feeling that i should have posted this in the guitar section instead of the for sale section.

but like i said before, one of you folks should snag it up, post-haste!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:37 am

To me , that's the coolest color! And the symbolism (apple-Beatles). But if the picture is snagged from another site, is his selling it legit? I don't have the bucks, but would but if I did. I'm tempted to buy a beater at some point just to have it done in that color. S.R.Boland-there are some PRS's that come in a color close to that, I think they look fine!

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:10 am

I'm convinced! He snagged the photo from the registration site, but offering another model that his guys painted... Someone should call him inquiring about it and have new pix sent over.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:10 pm

Does he represent it as a copy of the original rare guitar? An idiot like myself might walk into his shop thinking I'd found one of the three.

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:31 pm

Someone with Ed's resources surely could've produced a picture of the actual guitar, unless it didn't look as nice, don't you think?!

jps · Post by **jps** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:41 pm

Formula 1 Jaguars look good in green!

milo · Post by **milo** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:08 pm

One of my biggest guitar mistakes was passing up a Green burst Rick 360 when I was in high school. I had ordered a 320 from a local Rickenbacker dealer and it took months to come in. When it finally arrived he also showed me a Green 360 (that I believe had crushed pearl inlays and was double bound). He told me that Rick had shipped it to him with mine and that they said it had been sitting in their warehouse for several years (this would have been around 1978), and I remember him pointing out that it was still strung with flatwounds. I guess at the time I was too dumb to realize that I could have given him a check for the $75 above the cost of the 320 I had oredered, and borrowed the rest of the money from my parents to put in the bank before the check cleared. I also have to admit that I was a little caught up in my love of the Beatles, too. I went back the next day to see if he would swap me, but it was sold.

To this day I kick myself everytime I've thought of that.