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David McLaughlin (Combo850)
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Username: Combo850
Post Number: 10
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 68.232.66.122
| | Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 11:55 pm: | 
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That's right. It is exactly 1/4 inch longer than standard. Because of the fact that the peghead is more narrow than standard, the difference appears to be more than 1/4 inch in the photos. It's an illusion. The case is standard size. I would guess an effort was made to create the new 12-string to fit into a standard case so that a new size would not have to be ordered. The tuners all work perfectly. The banjo tuners are the higher quality Grover frictions from the '60s. They are very smooth in action and do not slip at all. |
Scott Jennings (Route66guitars)
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Username: Route66guitars
Post Number: 197
Registered: 01-2004
Posted From: 12.219.255.216
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 01:30 am: |
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I'm stunned that the neck on this instrument is factory original.
I don't think that it would have come from the factory with finished over dowels from a trapeze tailpiece being removed. I have never seen anything like that, even in test instruments that were never meant to leave the factory. Even the first 12 string had it's replacement 'R' tailpiece factory installed over the the original trapeze plate. |
Dale Bruce Fortune (Dale_fortune)
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Username: Dale_fortune
Post Number: 162
Registered: 10-2004
Posted From: 67.189.65.67
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 01:53 am: |
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Jwilli Didn't I tell you we made some 1 off and odd things at Electro String and that I thought this was probably an original instrument.
There were lots of instruments that were made that came out of the factory by special order that went undocumented. I remember in 1974 a Special Bass we made that had no body binding, but it had neck binding and an Ebony F,B. with M.O.P. marker dots on the F.B. It was finished in an off white cream color with black P.G and T.R.C. and it was fretless. Anyway, my thoughts are: this was a special order 1 of a kind that was left under the bed for lots of years. I've got 1 myself that's been in the closet since 1992, mint condition with very white and checkered binding. |
John Simmons (Leftybass)
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Username: Leftybass
Post Number: 991
Registered: 04-2002
Posted From: 69.161.23.82
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 12:30 pm: |
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It is hard to determine if the 'R' was on the guitar when it left the factory, but it sure has been on the guitar a long time. The finish on the ramp has faded ever-so-slightly along with the rest of the top in a uniform manner, but there is a perfect shadow/image of the 'R' tailpiece on the ramp in a deeper red, undoubtedly the hue of the red when it was factory fresh. It could be one of the first Ricks to leave the factory with an 'R' tailpiece, despite whether or not it was tapped for a trapeze. |
David McLaughlin (Combo850)
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Username: Combo850
Post Number: 11
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 68.232.66.122
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 01:47 pm: |
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Another thing is that there is absolutely no trace or impression in the guitar or lacquer where a trapeze end-plate would have been, and there is no shadowing from a flat trapeze in the fireglo. And I have seen some Rics that were drilled for one thing and then redrilled for another before leaving the factory. The famous curly maple, butcher-block 360F from early 1958 is a good example. Of course, it was a sample prototype and used as a mule to a degree. Plus there is at least one February, 1959 315 that was drilled for a Kauffman plate but left the factory in the mid '60s with an Accent. |
Andrew Winter (Wints)
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Username: Wints
Post Number: 892
Registered: 05-2002
Posted From: 205.188.116.8
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 02:00 pm: |
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I want that white ebony fretless bass! |
David McLaughlin (Combo850)
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Username: Combo850
Post Number: 12
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 68.232.66.122
| | Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 04:56 pm: |
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I finished reassembling the guitar this morning after extensive photographing.
Leftybass has come over and has just now finished putting strings on it. Wow! It sounds fantastic. He commented on how super slim the neck is, the same as the tiny 1960 fireglo 310, yet the neck is perfectly straight. No wrench has ever been on the rod nuts. The string action is wonderful with plenty of space below the bridge. Both pickups and all knobs work perfectly.
Leftybass says: "very lightweight, slightly over seven pounds on the scale, the slimmest neck I have ever felt on a Ric twelve-string, the sound with the current amp adjustment reminds me of the Who�s recording of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere. The sound is really great!" |
John Minutaglio (Jsm610)
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Username: Jsm610
Post Number: 188
Registered: 04-2004
Posted From: 66.135.163.170
| | Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 05:02 pm: |
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More pictures!!! More Pictures! |
Kevin Kuney (Krick)
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Username: Krick
Post Number: 136
Registered: 05-2002
Posted From: 207.91.212.254
| | Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 08:55 am: |
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Take a look!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41439&item=7326378375&rd=1 |
paul wilczynski (Jingle_jangle)
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Username: Jingle_jangle
Post Number: 2230
Registered: 12-2004
Posted From: 67.180.37.56
| | Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 10:54 am: |
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Didn't sell at $7100.00. Now it's at $76.00 with no reserve from a zero feedback bidder.
FRAUD, of course. |
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