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DOES ANYONE KNOW THE STORY OF THE TUXEDO BASSES? THERE SEEMS TO BE 1 OF THE 5 ON EBAY RIGHT NOW
THANKS
LEONNAZE

My ears!

Welcome, Joe! Not so loud, please!

The Tuxedo is one of 3 special 4003 models that were made with painted maple fingerboards. There are 125 (some say 120) Tuxedeos that were produced in three separate runs of 100, 20, and 5 (or that could have been 100, 15, and 5). Anyway there were at least 120 produced. They are standard Rickenbacker white and conversion varnish over a special all-maple 4003S. The neck inlays are actually black side dot material as they are on the Redneck. The Blackstar is essentially the same bass but has white dots and a chrome pickup cover and neck pickup bezel.

Ooops! Double post.

Ted, on a double post, you can delete it. Where it says Quote, Edit, X, !, the X allows you to delete it.

johnallg wrote:Ted, on a double post, you can delete it. Where it says Quote, Edit, X, !, the X allows you to delete it.

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