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nice material though. oh well..

Another one I should buy to smash!

Rather pretty wood on it, I must say.

JimK

It can't possibly be a fake, it has two slash holes in it.

Well, at least he says it has the same body as a "Rickenbarker"

Looks like a piece of dung.****** finish, ****** plywood looking grain , lousy headstock. Looks like it has,been operated on by a butcher and $45 International freight....

I wonder what he means by international? Canada and mexico and Rhode Island?

You could get a real one for less......

Eden.

weemac wrote:You could get a real one for less......

Eden.

Yeah, I don't know which is more obscene, the guitar or the starting bid.

JakeK wrote:Another one I should buy to smash!

I really don't understand that attitude.

JakeK wrote:Another one I should buy to smash!

The standard reply whenever a faker pops up.

C'mon, the headstock is wonky, but the p'ups and wood aren't THAT bad. I've seen a lot worse..
If the pickguard wasn't so oddly placed, it'd likely be a sharp looking axe. Well, aside from the awful headstock.

TheFountainHead wrote:

JakeK wrote:Another one I should buy to smash!

... the headstock is wonky, but the p'ups and wood aren't THAT bad. ....If the pickguard wasn't so oddly placed, it'd likely be a sharp looking axe. Well, aside from the awful headstock.

+1
JimK

And if Mike Campbell or Tom Petty happened to use one in concert, and there were video close ups of the odd pick ups ans shorty pick guard, like Roger McGuinn years ago, wouldn't
everyone say (Keano Reeves' voice) "Whoa.....where can I get me one of THOSE?" Perception of "coolness" (i.e. Jimmy Page and his lipstick Danelectros) is a mighty persuasive
force to be reckoned with as far as some of us players go.

How many players. I wonder, are in denial about, oh say, the weight of their Les Pauls, the fact they they really don't like the shape of a strat, that teles are like playing a plank of 2" X 12" lumber, that they will sound like Carlos S if they own a PRS, that its a mortal sin if they own an Italia 12 because they heretically resemble a RIC.

It seems that there is a certain intolerant prejudice (the Copyright issue aside) among the RIC purists that borders on arrogance. Are people really defining part of their lives by a
certain blend of wood and metal parts that come from Santa Ana only? I think that this snobby negative derision of "lessor" brands reveals an insecurity in some players that bears
some introspection.

I remember reading a post way back where someone had seen McGuinn live at a club. He said that Roger played nice crackly, sparkly electric 12 and enthralled the room. Come to find out Roger was playing a Guild 12 - but nobody threw him out because it wasn't a RIC!

If Slash used a $259.00 Hawk 12 string from Rondo Music in a video tomorrow, Rondo would run out of them in a week. But remember that the whole 12 string thing began
with Leadbelly years ago playing a Stella acoustic that probably in any of "our" hands would feel like a piece of junk.

The "best" guitar in the world may actually be some new old stockTeisco Del Ray from Japan with a kazillion switches on it still sitting unowned in some Mom and Pop shop in Peoria
just waiting to be discovered. Even John Cippolina eventually put aside his trademark bat-winged SG from Quicksilver in favor of a Carvin.

"To everything" (even RICs) "there is a season". Yes, nothing sounds like a RIC, but nothing sounds like an old Silvertone Chris Issac either.

donnellbw wrote:...But remember that the whole 12 string thing began with Leadbelly years ago playing a Stella acoustic that probably in any of "our" hands would feel like a piece of junk.

While I agree with the value of your statement, the facts are otherwise. There were many 12 string artists besides Leadbelly.

Blind Willie McTell, Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, Rev. Gary Davis, although somewhat later, was known to have played a 12 string guitar, Jesse Fuller(1896 — 1976), and I'm sure there are more.

JimK

jimk wrote:

donnellbw wrote:...But remember that the whole 12 string thing began with Leadbelly years ago playing a Stella acoustic that probably in any of "our" hands would feel like a piece of junk.

While I agree with the value of your statement, the facts are otherwise. There were many 12 string artists besides Leadbelly.

Blind Willie McTell, Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, Rev. Gary Davis, although somewhat later, was known to have played a 12 string guitar, Jesse Fuller(1896 — 1976), and I'm sure there are more.

JimK

I think the emphasis of donnellbw was how it 'began' with Leadbelly, which is true. Leadbelly recorded 'Titanic' in 1912 with a 12 string. This was a few years before the others you listed began recording. Most of their careers started up in the '20's.

buzfluhart wrote:
I think the emphasis of donnellbw was how it 'began' with Leadbelly, which is true. Leadbelly recorded 'Titanic' in 1912 with a 12 string. This was a few years before the others you listed began recording. Most of their careers started up in the '20's.

Ah...duly noted. Thanks.

JimK