Yamaha went shopping for more than just Gibson!

[Dave W]

The Ibanez basses were luthite, a soft composite material with the consistency of pencil graphite whose structural stability was a hard outer finish/shell. Lucite is the see-through colored plastic, similar to lexan. Different stuff.

I heard those Ibanez basses smelled weird. No joke! It was mentioned in a BP magazine review.

I remember that stuff! It was on the Ibanez Ergodyne and those hideously ugly Cort Curbow basses. IIRC someone at FDP had a luthite Ibanez, removed the neck, and a chunk of the body came off, it was pretty soft under its outer shell. And it smelled. 

[chromium]

Tried to exercise restraint, but this discussion of lucite/luthite just brings it out of me... 

[Pilgrim]

Tried to exercise restraint, but this discussion of lucite/luthite just brings it out of me... 

I think the anther ith yeth.

[Dave W]

Tried to exercise restraint, but this discussion of lucite/luthite just brings it out of me... 

Have you noticed that the bellowing jackass from the Arby's commercial has a lisp that slips out here and there? "Two for thix buckth!" "Thmoky barbecue thauth!" Any day now I expect his spittle to come out of my TV screen.

[gearHed289]

Tried to exercise restraint, but this discussion of lucite/luthite just brings it out of me... 

Thanks for saving me the trouble! 

[Pilgrim]

Thanks for saving me the trouble! 

Do you mean thankth?

[gearHed289]

  Killin me...

[Pilgrim]

Killin me...

Thoitanly!  Ith a pleathure.

[lowend1]

Lucite comeback? 

They were reissued once already in 1998, not only in clear Lucite, but also the scarce black Lucite version and regular old wood - both basses and guitars. I seem to recall that the wood versions were ultimately showing up in the catalogs, heavily discounted. Still listed on the ampeg website, though:
https://ampeg.com/products/daplexi/ada4/