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Ebay UK Rickenbacker guitar auction
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:50 am
by marty
What this actually is is anybodys guess:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41439&item=7306163585&rd=1
The bidders are going for it anyway....bit of a lucky dip!
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:26 am
by jwilli
Wow! I want one of those!
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:39 am
by leftyguitars
Is it lefthanded? I can't see from here!
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:26 am
by jingle_jangle
It's a rare transition model Rickenbecker. Between the bacher and the backer lies the becker.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:36 am
by Scastles
If you look close in the Title he says, Rickenbacker, in the sub it's rickERbacker..it's two, yes, two guitars in one, a ricker and a ricken.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:37 am
by trick_knee
It's probably a 4080 and the guy wants to dump it 'cuz it's too heavy. He's gonna use the money to buy that digital camera that he can't live without.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:49 am
by jingle_jangle
Stan: I coulda sworn he said "rickenbecker".
I wrote him and he replied that it's some weird thing with lights inside. He says he'll trade for a nice camera.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:59 am
by Scastles
Maybe he did, Paul, and then corrected it to read, rickerbacker. You gotta keep trying. If he's got a LS and doesn't know it then I'm pretty sure he would trade for a Kodak Instamatic
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:14 am
by bmi_guy
Paul - Stan,
You're both so naive... Anyone can see by the pix that it's a doubleneck - one was put on in 1949 BEFORE the name change... Honestly - do I have to lead you both around!!
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:01 am
by leftyguitars
Can't any of you read??? It's obvious that it is a kerbacker or a kenbacker. He states twice in the QFS section that there isn't a Ric!
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:09 am
by jingle_jangle
STOP!!! You're all right. It's a kenbacker, a kerbacker, and a kenbecker. But there is no ric, as the flogger sez.
I'll bet it's a triple or quadruple cutaway LS SF. With the barbecue grill option. And the Accent vibrato tremelo kerplunker.
Not to mention the rectabular excrusion bracket, held on by rare unobtanium ambihelical hexnuts.
Would it be too much to hope for a blivet nut?
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:14 am
by trick_knee
You forgot about the left-handed-ask-your-father with the mussintuchit valve.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:28 am
by leftyguitars
No we didn't, I asked if it was left handed on the last page (but I admit that I didn't ask if it had a mussintuchit on it). I think I'll bid on it 'cos whatever it is I don't think that I've got one, certainly not in that colour anyway!!!.
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:20 pm
by bmi_guy
Wait a minute - I'm getting something from the "voices in my head" - Wow - It's got an internal 350Watt amp and two 15" JBLs...
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:44 pm
by ozover50
I've checked the old catalogues and it's a rare prototype 'Airbacker', first aired in 1979. The color is 'Oxygenglo' and it's fitted with two Seeless Duncan airbuckers and has transparent hardware. The patented 'doohickey' between the nut and the first fret apparently gives it an ethereal sound quality.
Nice lookin' unit, eh?