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Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:01 am
by targ
Hey all, have you ever seen this Ric ?
I wrote to them asking if it was just a washed out photo, and they said no, what you see is what you get and that is just the way it is. It is supposed to be jet glow. but its' gray.
Question, wouldn't QC at Ric catch this, or do they let out seconds? The price is right, but wow, I cant get over how off it is from "jet Glow"
Could you grow to love this Ugly duckling?
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:19 am
by jwilli
As long as I was looking for a "gray-glo", sure!
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:13 am
by cmuk
I like it a lot!
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:14 am
by captsandwich
targ wrote:
Could you grow to love this Ugly duckling?
Easily. I think it's beautiful.
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:52 am
by jdogric12
RIC announced they would be sending out a few oddball things over the coming months, and this looks like maybe it's one of the grayglo's they were talking about.
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:09 am
by jimk
"Could you grow to love this?" he asks. Absolutely! It's a Rickenbacker, ain't it?
JimK
P.S. How does a guy go about snagging one of these one-off geetars anyhow?
jk
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:41 am
by longhouse
Oh my... I love the graphiteglo!
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:59 am
by shamustwin
Very nice, unique to boot!
I've seen only one other, a 4003.
These are not seconds or flawed.
When a 350 shows up in Greyglo (off-black?), I'm all over it!
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:41 pm
by scotty
I love that Greyglo but as far as a ugly duckling im sure with any ric they all grow up to be beautiful swans
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:20 pm
by targ
scotty wrote:I love that Greyglo but as far as a ugly duckling im sure with any ric they all grow up to be beautiful swans
I guess that was my point, is this a swan in the rough? I would love a jetglo, but am unsure of greyglo
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:36 pm
by targ
Imagine that, that thing sat there forever, I post a picture here to ask some questions and its gone. I decided to pull the trigger on it but someone beat me to it
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:33 pm
by scotty
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:51 pm
by firstbassman
Didn't this come up before about a little less than a year or so ago?
And JH (or someone else at RIC) said that they switched paints and some guitars came out grey.
Or am I completely crazy and making this up?
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:54 pm
by red_rob
not seconds??
come on people....
Re: Ugly duckling??
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:26 pm
by targ
red_rob wrote:not seconds??
come on people....
It would have been with any other guitar builder, but I digress.
Lets face it, it was a mistake.
It was priced like a 2nd, 1000 + 200 and add 75 for good measure. That included shipping.
But honestly, I wanted Jet GLow and I'm not sure I would have been happy with one that looked like a mistake.
