Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I'm sure this must have been covered before on the forum, but I've just come across it whilst browsing the net.

I know diddly squat about the construction of guitars. Would this be fairly straight forward to put together? If not I suppose I could take it to a local luthier.

Maybe we should have a competition to see who can come up with the best guitar.

http://www.themusicking.co.uk/build-you ... rick-style

My eyes are burning! Could they have made the knobs any smaller and spread apart?

I think that would make a great birthday present for someone! Id buy one.Rob shame we are not nearer each other we could give it a bash!
And before anyone starts yelling its not a real ric yes we know!

1965 wrote:My eyes are burning! Could they have made the knobs any smaller and spread apart?

A set of the TV style control knobs would sort that out.

scotty wrote:I think that would make a great birthday present for someone! Id buy one.Rob shame we are not nearer each other we could give it a bash!
And before anyone starts yelling its not a real ric yes we know!

Yeah, I'm tempted, just for the fun of it.

Get it finished in time for November then we could burn it on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes night.

A couple of things come to mind besides burning one of these on Guy Fawkes night:
1. It seems this is right up there with those Chinese Rickenfakers, and all that copyright infringement that RIC is so diligent about pursuing,
2. It also seems that one could take the wiring schematics, a non-descript, generic semi-hollow guitar body, a couple of single coil pckcups, a 21 fret set in neck if you like, and knobs and switches and make your own Rickenbacker styled or shall I say inspired guitar without the legal hassles.

Looks to me like these guys are pushing the legal envelope at their own risk. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

JimK

If I was still playing out I'd probably buy one of those and paint it up like a union jack and then smash it during a cover version of "My Generation" over a simulated Hi-Watt amp and then kick all the pieces of both of them into the audience. Yelling at the top of my lungs "that's what I think of that guitar". How's that for an start? A performance guaranteed to start a riot these days unfortunately.

I'll bet they are the worst ******* that you can imagine fellas.

Ew.

Very bad.

They should be beaten with the necks of their own guitar kits...and that's just for starters!

If only these were around in 1965...

...Townshend could have bashed these up instead of the RoMo models!

JakeK wrote:If only these were around in 1965...

...Townshend could have bashed these up instead of the RoMo models!

Agreed. That's along the lines of the point I made. What a waste of a good instrument. Pete what on earth were you thinking?

Matthew

jimk wrote:A couple of things come to mind besides burning one of these on Guy Fawkes night:
1. It seems this is right up there with those Chinese Rickenfakers, and all that copyright infringement that RIC is so diligent about pursuing,
2. It also seems that one could take the wiring schematics, a non-descript, generic semi-hollow guitar body, a couple of single coil pckcups, a 21 fret set in neck if you like, and knobs and switches and make your own Rickenbacker styled or shall I say inspired guitar without the legal hassles.

Looks to me like these guys are pushing the legal envelope at their own risk. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

JimK

Amen to this. I hate to generalize too much, but there seems to be a different attitude over there across the Pond...a lot more flaunting of intellectual property laws, and a whole lot of nose-thumbing when it comes to Rick knockoffs.

This particular nastiness of a DIY Fakenbacker has cropped up at least once before on the RRF. It seems to me that if we're here to celebrate the exquisite and unique instruments made by RIC, we should not be watering things down by even considering these in anything but a negative light.

That's ignoring the legality of this, the ethics, and the fact that these are butt-ugly anti-Ricks.

*******

Exactly the word that popped into my head, Brian!

InSync again.............

ozover50 wrote:

*******

Exactly the word that popped into my head, Brian!

InSync again.............

Well then, I guess we're all in agreement.

JimK

jingle_jangle wrote:

jimk wrote:A couple of things come to mind besides burning one of these on Guy Fawkes night:
1. It seems this is right up there with those Chinese Rickenfakers, and all that copyright infringement that RIC is so diligent about pursuing,
2. It also seems that one could take the wiring schematics, a non-descript, generic semi-hollow guitar body, a couple of single coil pckcups, a 21 fret set in neck if you like, and knobs and switches and make your own Rickenbacker styled or shall I say inspired guitar without the legal hassles.

Looks to me like these guys are pushing the legal envelope at their own risk. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

JimK

Amen to this. I hate to generalize too much, but there seems to be a different attitude over there across the Pond...a lot more flaunting of intellectual property laws, and a whole lot of nose-thumbing when it comes to Rick knockoffs.

This particular nastiness of a DIY Fakenbacker has cropped up at least once before on the RRF. It seems to me that if we're here to celebrate the exquisite and unique instruments made by RIC, we should not be watering things down by even considering these in anything but a negative light.

That's ignoring the legality of this, the ethics, and the fact that these are butt-ugly anti-Ricks.

Absolutely fair comment.

But.....

What if it was a really top quality kit using quality wood, excellent electronics and hand crafted by a skilled luthier?

Is it offensive because it is a cheap knock off, or because of the legality, ethics and the potential damage this sort of thing could do to Ric?

It's just I'm thinking of how many people embraced the Piers Crocker fake Rics. I'm not sure of the background story of his Ric copies and whether or not he had permission from Ric to produce those as a third party. If he didn't have permission, those guitars were beautifully made for sure, but legally and ethically just as offensive and wrong as this, no?