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Went to my first guitar show today in Plainview NY. Very disappointing. Not one Rickenbacker bass for sale in the whole place.

Refund!

Marc -

Anything else interesting??

Any RIC guitars??

Yeah, one person had one ric guitar

Hope you didn't have to drive too far for that show...

-Went to my first guitar show today in Plainview NY. Very disappointing. Not one Rickenbacker bass for sale in the whole place.-

I wish I had known about it, I live about 35 miles east of Plainview, and have never been to a show either. Do you have your bass setup by someone locally, or do it yourself?

To Chris, travel time was about a half hour. Went to my local sam Ash and Guitar center(two almost Ricless stores themselves) after.

To Jack, I like to play with my basses myself. When I do go professional, I use a guy named Jim @ Music Services in Wantagh, he is smart and very precise, or someone who I just discovered, John Bertsche @ Sam Ash in Carle Place. He just did work on my Guild acoustic guitar that was nothing short of unbelievable.

There's also a place on rt110, just north of the Northern Parkway near my office that I can't remember the name of that's pretty good. Especially with amps.

I went to a show this weekend in Nashville, and I was quite surprised at how many Rics I did see there. Usually, there's nothing, but I saw 2 new McCartney type models, with the upside-down headstocks. There were 10 to 15 guitars scattered about the place and at least 4 used 4001 models scattered about.

I have to say that other than the 2 new Ric basses the condition and price of 4001 models are getting scary and stupefying. I saw one table where the guy had a MapleGlo 4001 from around '75 to '79 that looked like he'd drug it there behind his van. The input jacks were so rusty that I couldn't read the serial number. Small to large finish pits down to the wood all over, most of the wood under was starting to blacken under the pits. It had only 3 strings on it and they weren’t up to pitch, making it impossible to tell what condition the truss rods were in. Here's the kicker, are you ready for this? The asking price started at $1,000 dollars.

I did end up getting a 4001s that was in pretty good shape, except that it was a black overspray over BurgandyGlo, not too badly done, and bit of hard belt buckle rash on the back for $740.00 and felt lucky to get that.
I fear that the same buying rage that hit old Fender and Gibson basses a few years ago is creeping into our market, little by little. Oh well, things never stay the same I guess.

Network hosed up double posted, sorry.

Marc said:
-There's also a place on rt110, just north of the Northern Parkway near my office that I can't remember the name of that's pretty good. Especially with amps.-

Sounds like Murphy's Music, I had my Ric setup there.

Mmm.. I think it's in the strip mall just south of Murphy's. It might be called "Musical Intrument Repair".The actually had an Ibanez 4001 copy that I enjoyed playing so much I almost bought it. They wanted $800 though.Can almost get the real thing for that price.

Next time I'm in the area, I'll check the Ibanez out. Maybe it's got the thin 4001 type neck I've read about but haven't had the pleasure to play yet.

There is a company, Texas Guitar Shows, Inc., that holds guitar shows around the country. Here's a link to the web site:

http://www.texasguitarshows.com/

I went to one of these at the Orange County (CA) Fairgrounds a couple of years ago. Not as impressive as I expected, but there were a number of Rickenbackers there (including a model 610 that the dealer didn't have a clue about). My major gripe: what I consider unsrupulous dealers. Example: a dealer had for sale ($2500) a 1967 Gibson ES-335. Being the proud owner of a second-owner 1967 (serial # 8645xx) ES-335TDC, I had the following poblems with this one: (1) it had replaced tuners, (2) it had replaced control knobs, (3) it had a replacement, non-correct (metal saddles instead of nylon) bridge. Nothing about the non-originality of these parts was mentioned on the price tag. Unfortunately, the dealer was nowhere to be found while I was there, or I would have played the role of the naïve buyer to test whether he/she would be honest about the guitar.

Jack, That Ibanez is long gone and it did have a neck on the thin side. That's why I liked it. At the time though, I was on a hunt for a v63, so an imitation just wouldn't do.

What's an Ibanez? Sounds like a venerable old guitar from Spain or something.