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I have never seen a newer Midnight blue in person or remember seeing pictures of the back. I assumed it to be a solid color, but in the following 'bay auction

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=011

the picture of the back (10th one down) looks like translucent with woodgrain showing, whereas the front looks metallic solid blue. Anybody care to comment, or is this the way they are (which is I guess a comment )?

Weird. But it could be a reflection of something.

It is definitly woodgrain seen through the finish.

IMO what we are seeing as woodgrain on the back is a reflection off a wood-paneled wall ...

[edit: I agree with Ilan!]

i'd like to see them all come with that wood grain bleedthrough.

a JG like that would make me wet.

phlemmy wrote:i'd like to see them all come with that wood grain bleedthrough.

a JG like that would make me wet.

Looks like a relection to me also.

A trans black finsh would look great on Ricks, especially the 4004 basses.

I'm standing firm. You can see the neck plank to wing joint, and the maple grain pattern of the wings. Also look at the neck. If it was a reflection, it would follow the body contours. I'd love to buy it just to take a chance I'm right. This would be kind of a cool odd-ball if the back is trans blue and the front is solid. The only difference is no silver mettalic basecoat under the blue. Do you ever wonder if RIC releases experimental stuff like this to keep it interesting? How many of the grayglos went out, probably amounting to one production run?

rickenbrother wrote:
A trans black finsh would look great on Ricks, especially the 4004 basses.

Funny you should say that Joey....

eric_b wrote:

rickenbrother wrote:
A trans black finsh would look great on Ricks, especially the 4004 basses.

Funny you should say that Joey....

You did!?!?! I want it!!!

eric_b wrote:

rickenbrother wrote:
A trans black finsh would look great on Ricks, especially the 4004 basses.

Funny you should say that Joey....

Wow!!!!!!

Woohoo! Finally a question I'm an 'expert' on! (Maybe the only question??)

I just checked out my own 2005 MID 4003 and definitely not a hint of woodgrain on mine under any lighting condition I tried. Keep in mind that this was the year for 'problems' with the paint, i.e. bleeding into the white binding. I chose not to have mine fixed under warranty (I would have had to pay $250 Cdn to ship to California one-way) so mine has original paint. This could well be an artifact of the re-finish by Rickenbacker.

rickenbrother wrote:
A trans black finsh would look great on Ricks, especially the 4004 basses.

Joey, you’ve been dreaming about that for quite some time IIRC

ricosound wrote:I'm standing firm. You can see the neck plank to wing joint, and the maple grain pattern of the wings. Also look at the neck. If it was a reflection, it would follow the body contours. I'd love to buy it just to take a chance I'm right. This would be kind of a cool odd-ball if the back is trans blue and the front is solid. The only difference is no silver mettalic basecoat under the blue. Do you ever wonder if RIC releases experimental stuff like this to keep it interesting? How many of the grayglos went out, probably amounting to one production run?

I'm with you Wes, thats the back grain showing through.

[quote="ricosound"]I'm standing firm. You can see the neck plank to wing joint,


+1

ricosound wrote:I'm standing firm. You can see the neck plank to wing joint, and the maple grain pattern of the wings...

Certainly looks like grain to me. Good eyes Wes!