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600 series bass sighting!
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:14 pm
by jps
There are two photos on page 145 in the Rittor Rickenbacker book that shows a bass under construction at the factory with a 600 series body shape! Anyone know anything about this bass?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:37 pm
by ealdrett
I can only imagine what it would look like. With 660 offerings.
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:47 pm
by sloop_john_b
There was at least one in the museum, Jeff (The one at the RIC factory, that is).
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:03 pm
by jps
Hmm, I missed that, any pics?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:41 pm
by sloop_john_b
Not me, somebody must have 'em!
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:55 pm
by johnallg
Could this be it?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:52 pm
by jps
Not that one. The one in the book has only a single, centered slot instead of the two seen here at the end of the neck, no route yet for a pickup, and it looks like there is more rounding to the edges all around the body. The upper horn is too fat on the one pictured above and the horn on the one in the book looks longer, maybe because it is slimmer. The grain is different, also.
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:51 pm
by johnallg
Eh, it was worth a try.
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:58 pm
by jps
I think it would look better with CB.
The more I think about it I do remember seeing this bass last year, as I remember wondering about that pickup!
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:26 pm
by johnallg
Okay, I cropped this one from one of Bjorn's pictures from last year:
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:03 am
by jwr2
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:57 am
by jps
Yeah, it is more like Jeff's rendering but all maple with a normal 4000 series headstock.
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:10 am
by jwr2
JH did mention a new bass coming out ...
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:19 am
by jps
These pics are from the '80s or early '90s probably. Nontheless, it would make a killer bass.
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:27 pm
by simer4001
Here we go Jeff!