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Doing a vintage restoration? Checkered binding on eBay, item #280591986475. Seller claims it is NOS from the last run from the actual manufacturer who supplied Ric.

No affiliation with seller.

That's our ol' buddy, Elys Rand!

How come he never posts anymore here, Paul?

mgauction wrote:How come he never posts anymore here, Paul?

How much time do you have Mike...

Wow! Guess I missed all the action.......

Sooo...I guess it's not NOS. Pity...

It says NOS on the auction.

At one time this binding was available directly through RIC for repairs. He may very well have purchased it years ago, but if my memory serves me well I believe he purchased it years ago from another forum member that aquired it properly.

As far as I can tell, you can get all you want here:
http://www.shellex.de/index.php?categ=4 ... =44&area=1

ken_j wrote:At one time this binding was available directly through RIC for repairs. He may very well have purchased it years ago, but if my memory serves me well I believe he purchased it years ago from another forum member that aquired it properly.

I understand that he bought a large quantity directly from Shellex, back in late 2006.

jingle_jangle wrote:That's our ol' buddy, Elys Rand!

He doesn't have any use for CB any more as, some years ago he purchased a 4001FG 1971(ore even older?) 21-Fetter with CB here in Germany in perfect condition!

I remember that one along with a gazillion other pre-73 basses that he bought.

cjj wrote:As far as I can tell, you can get all you want here:
http://www.shellex.de/index.php?categ=4 ... =44&area=1

I'll have to have a word with those folks. We haven't dealt with Shellex for maybe 20 years now. That's when we switched to higher quality product (i.e. straight checkers) from Japan. Now it all comes from Italy and it certainly isn't celluloid!

(Rand aka Randall Piggott will get busted big time if he ships what he thinks is celluloid by U.S. mail, as the auction states. It needs to go by some service such as FedEx or UPS which has a flammable/hazardous item service category.)

jingle_jangle wrote:

ken_j wrote:At one time this binding was available directly through RIC for repairs. He may very well have purchased it years ago, but if my memory serves me well I believe he purchased it years ago from another forum member that aquired it properly.

I understand that he bought a large quantity directly from Shellex, back in late 2006.

As is my recollection.

I must be thinking of someone else, I recall alerting the seller to a wanted post.