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wondering about the few blue and green rics?
were these special ordercustom colors? or ?? or for only certain style/years? very cool!
alana

Blueburst was a RIC color of the year in 2006.... my 350V63 is a factory Blueburst, and my 481 is a Paul W. refin in a specially mixed shade of blue. As far as I know, the recent green Rics are all refins except for one or two very rare factory one-offs. Back in the 50's RIC had a color called "Cloverfield Green," which is a dark teal-green color. I believe that in recent years RIC also had a transparent blue finish that was only available on the Cii basses.

Or do you mean these guys?



I think they were just a factory experiment. It was the late 60's, after all...

dpowell wrote:Or do you mean these guys?



I think they were just a factory experiment. It was the late 60's, after all...

Could be wrong, but I think John Hall said those were bought and done by some other paint shop. This came up when a similar 330 was for sale a while ago. It was the one Olivia's bought for way too much, they did a hail mary bid which was almost matched and they had to eat it.

Well, he said there was only one done by RIC, but the rest were done elsewhere, by Al Molinaro...

cjj wrote:Well, he said there was only one done by RIC, but the rest were done elsewhere, by Al Molinaro...

Thanks for the clarification... couldn't recall exactly what the story was.