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Shipping next week! see the ric forum and Facebook page for some pics

Interesting, Where did you order yours, DrRick?

Sound Affects in the UK

DrRick wrote:Sound Affects in the UK

What finish did you order? Be sure to post pics when it comes in!

Close examination of the first pics seem to indicate that the neck pickup route has been changed for the better.

It looks also that you could easily put the neck pickup in the 1/2" position with a pick guard made for it.

Man! I stopped buying too soon!

bassduke49 wrote:Man! I stopped buying too soon!

That's why I bough the Yamamoto MS-12 I and not done buying but I am looking for more interesting pieces to bolster my collection as wee as it is.

bassduke49 wrote:It looks also that you could easily put the neck pickup in the 1/2" position with a pick guard made for it.

Man! I stopped buying too soon!

Welllllll.....
There IS an easy cure for that....

jps wrote:

bassduke49 wrote:Man! I stopped buying too soon!

That's why I bough the Yamamoto MS-12 I and not done buying but I am looking for more interesting pieces to bolster my collection as wee as it is.

You mean this?

squirebass wrote:

jps wrote:

bassduke49 wrote:Man! I stopped buying too soon!

That's why I bough the Yamamoto MS-12 I and not done buying but I am looking for more interesting pieces to bolster my collection as wee as it is.

You mean this?

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No, not that one, the other one. As far as I know Tony has made only two of them, same year, 2011.

aceonbass wrote:Close examination of the first pics seem to indicate that the neck pickup route has been changed for the better.

Excellent! That, along with the the new pickguard shape,are good things.

woodyng wrote:

aceonbass wrote:Excellent! That, along with the the new pickguard shape,are good things.

If RIC doesn't make them in black, I know someone who does...

No, not that one, the other one. As far as I know Tony has made only two of them, same year, 2011.[/quote]

D'oh!!! But that "other" one is blowout priced at $5,000

What are they like to play, a little bit different than a 481 slat-fret I suppose...

A small fraction of the fingerboard has a similar slant to the frets. Actually, going by this only example of a fanned fret instrument I have played, they are quite natural feeling, I don't notice any adverse or weird affects of the multiscale neck, only an amazing bottom end from both the longer scale length to the bass strings and the jumbo body (which BTW, has a Manzer Wedge®, along with an arm bevel making the instrument feel smaller than it really is).

I never considered that the neck pickup pocket could accommodate a 1/2" spacing. If it does, I know I'm going to be ordering yet another pickguard from Tony D. The 620 white plexi guards just arrived today and I put a plexi on my 4003s.