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I just bought this thinking it is BBR. Just to be absolutely sure: Am I right? It looks pretty much the same to me as this BBR by Olivia

Looks BBR to me.

I thought the price was low for a color of the year. But if you describe it as "translucent blue with dark blue edges" no one will know it is a COY.

It is beautiful and the price is excellent, but I would run the serial number by the folks at RIC or have the people at Elderly check the warranty card to be sure it's BBR and not TB.

it certainly looks like a blue burst to me. (gorgeous!) and it has the lovely longer/narrower headstock,too. Congrats!

Hey Berth

I have a Blueburst 4003 and your new bass looks like a Blueburst to me.
Although I've never seen one in person, to my knowledge the Translucent Blue is the same over the whole bass, where as the BBR finish is like the FG finish and gets much lighter in the middle. On your new bass it certainly gets lighter in the middle, especially on the neck.

Here's a link to some photo's of my BBR 4003 if you wanna have a look.

http://s850.photobucket.com/albums/ab65 ... =slideshow

sloop_john_b wrote:but I would run the serial number by the folks at RIC or have the people at Elderly check the warranty card to be sure it's BBR and not TB.

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Sam links to other forums on the RRF are not allowed sorry mate im sure the Moderator will amend your post have a peep here.
Links to other chat forums are not allowed.
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Apologies for that, I didn't realise as I'm brand new to the forum.
I'll try and amend the post.
Here's a direct link to some photo's via photobucket, hopefully this is ok.

http://s850.photobucket.com/albums/ab65 ... =slideshow

Since Sam's link will be pulled here is a photo of his LOVELY 4003BBR!

sloop_john_b wrote:Since Sam's link will be pulled here is a photo of his LOVELY 4003BBR!

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Thanks for the compliment John.
Just can't help wishing I'd gone for FG!, but I still love her dearly.

Sam, based on the shading it looks like it could be one of the earlier ones in the run. Of course, I could be dead wrong. What year is it from?

sloop_john_b wrote:Sam, based on the shading it looks like it could be one of the earlier ones in the run. Of course, I could be dead wrong. What year is it from?

I'm guessing it's one of the later ones as it's a 2007 model

berth wrote:I thought the price was low for a color of the year. But if you describe it as "translucent blue with dark blue edges" no one will know it is a COY.

Here's a photo of a Trans Blue Cii for comparison. No shading around the edges.

Who's Who wrote:Just can't help wishing I'd gone for FG!, but I still love her dearly.

I must have missed yours Sam as I look quite frequently on the sales pages of the basschat forum. I've done some pretty good deals in the past there. Yours is 100 cheaper than the other BBR on sale there. Welcome over here BTW.

If you make it to 30 postings over here you can view and post in the sale section on this board also. Might be usefull. It certainly is usefull for you Rickenbacker knowledge to visit this board more.