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Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:41 am
by gibsonlp
http://cgi.ebay.com/1966-Ideal-Rickenba ... dZViewItem
Easily identifiable, still - the MOP and CBB are pretty unique for a fake, don't you think?
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:54 am
by winston
Agreed it's unique, but it's still misshapen and ugly though.
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:59 am
by whojamfan
Hopefully this went to a person in a "WHO" tribute band who plans to "Townshend" this thing in the encore.
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:22 am
by 1965
I don't think it has MOP inlays, they look fairly similar to the RIC sparkle inlays. I'm sure they're nowhere near as good in person though. The tailpiece/ramp is making me gag, they took the beautiful sloping curve of the RIC ramp and made it into a bunch of geometric shapes. Yuck.
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:15 pm
by jimk
Don't you folks find it interesting that those Rickenfaker Makers seem consistently to get some significant detail wrong? For example tail pieces, or TRCs not quite the right shape, or an obvious deviation from a certain curvature. even wrong pickups. If forgery is the intent, all the fakers I've seen are pretty bad ones.
I dunno....I'm just this dude from Kansas. Three chords and The Truth is all I know (the definition of country music.)
JimK
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Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:23 pm
by deaconblues
jimk wrote:Don't you folks find it interesting that those Rickenfaker Makers seem consistently to get some significant detail wrong? For example tail pieces, or TRCs not quite the right shape, or an obvious deviation from a certain curvature. even wrong pickups. If forgery is the intent, all the fakers I've seen are pretty bad ones.
I dunno....I'm just this dude from Kansas. Three chords and The Truth is all I know (the definition of country music.)
JimK
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Why spend a lot of money or time on something that's not the real thing? In the end, these have to sell for dirt cheap.
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:34 pm
by jingle_jangle
Heelariously ironic that they got the iconic and blew the rest into a trash can.
(It's got the desirable inlays and the nice binding, but it might as well be a hockey stick. EVERYTHING else is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:05 am
by 1965
dpowell wrote:Why spend a lot of money or time on something that's not the real thing? In the end, these have to sell for dirt cheap.
$500 isn't that cheap. Can't believe someone would spend that much on this POS. How hard could it be to save for a few more months and buy the real deal?
Re: Checkboard Binding, MOP inlays, a Fake Rickenbacker...!
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:10 pm
by jimk
I quite agree with all three of you gentlemen.
JimK