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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #1350 on: May 03, 2017, 07:18:46 AM »
Back when Fireglo looked good instead of overly red and white. Without seeing it, I'd guess it's not a refin. Too hard to reproduce that.

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« Reply #1351 on: May 03, 2017, 07:33:14 AM »
Wow, this one's pretty.  The condition almost seems too good to not be a refin but who knows...

https://reverb.com/item/5131209-rickenbacker-4001-fl-1973-fireglo-fretless-fret-less-fire-glo-checker-binding-ric

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« Reply #1352 on: May 03, 2017, 11:25:30 PM »
Chris Brubeck with his FL. The guy can play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EySQ2ei1NTA
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« Reply #1353 on: May 04, 2017, 04:10:36 AM »
That's hot.

Drop someone like Steve Garibaldi in there and it's off to the races.... 8)
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« Reply #1354 on: May 04, 2017, 06:34:48 AM »
I found better pics of the '73 fretless on the Ric Register.  Apparently it was on ebay in 2013 and didnt sell at $1476, that would have been a steal. :-\

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« Reply #1355 on: May 27, 2017, 01:38:27 AM »
Remember those? TV Yellow C64. Starting at $950, 6 days to go.

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« Reply #1356 on: May 27, 2017, 07:31:04 AM »
I sent him a correction. He has listed it as a 4001C64S, but it is not the S version (which has rounded-off body horns).
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« Reply #1357 on: May 27, 2017, 09:10:50 AM »
These are fairly recent, aren't they? About 10 years ago?

TV Yellow LOL. Nothing like Gibson's TV finish.

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« Reply #1358 on: May 27, 2017, 07:03:42 PM »
Probably around 2010-11 on the T.V. Yellow. Five were made (supposedly). Never got the "T.V." reference. What's yellow got to do with T.V.?
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« Reply #1359 on: May 27, 2017, 09:40:59 PM »
...Never got the "T.V." reference. What's yellow got to do with T.V.?
I think it has to do with yellow showing the instrument more prominently on B&W televisions back in the day.

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« Reply #1360 on: May 27, 2017, 10:17:12 PM »
Probably around 2010-11 on the T.V. Yellow. Five were made (supposedly). Never got the "T.V." reference. What's yellow got to do with T.V.?

I think it has to do with yellow showing the instrument more prominently on B&W televisions back in the day.

No, it doesn't. That story is absurd. Unfortunately it's been spread around for years.

Limed finishes were the most popular furniture finish in the mid 50s and limed finish console TV cabinets were selling like hotcakes. Gibson introduced a version of the Les Paul Junior as the Les Paul TV Model. The difference between it and the regular Junior was the finish. It was yellowish so the color later became known as TV Yellow. Here's a '55 -- nowhere near as yellow as reissues because they aren't finished the same way.

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« Reply #1361 on: May 28, 2017, 12:48:39 AM »
No, it doesn't. That story is absurd. Unfortunately it's been spread around for years.


Indeed absurd, Gibson would have wanted any solidbody endorsee to bring a goldtop or a custom if they were to appear on TV.

But a few books point out that the TV name was to connect potential solidbody buyers with what they have heard on TV, remember that Les and Mary appeared on TV all the time with their Gibson guitars, and obviously Gibson wanted something that was possible to buy for anyone.

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« Reply #1362 on: May 28, 2017, 08:12:32 PM »
Indeed absurd, Gibson would have wanted any solidbody endorsee to bring a goldtop or a custom if they were to appear on TV.

But a few books point out that the TV name was to connect potential solidbody buyers with what they have heard on TV, remember that Les and Mary appeared on TV all the time with their Gibson guitars, and obviously Gibson wanted something that was possible to buy for anyone.

LOL. That story came from Les himself, remembering the influence of his TV show that he says ran from 1953-1960, despite the fact that he never had his own TV show (he did 5-minute spots for Listerine for 18 months), and he and Mary were finished as hitmakers by 1955. Les remembered many things that never happened. I won't go into all that in a Rickenbacker thread. Look at old TV promo sheets or ads from that time, you'll find many limed finish cabinets, especially limed oak. Gibson's earliest promo sheets and price lists for the TV Model refer to the finish as limed oak. That's no coincidence. It was to connect the finish with TV cabinet finishes.

Now back to Rickenbackers. Sorry for the distraction.

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #1363 on: June 11, 2017, 10:27:00 PM »
Here's a nice application of FG over birdseye maple. '73 4000. $3K BIN



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« Reply #1364 on: June 13, 2017, 12:58:14 AM »
A 330 converted to Light Show short-scale bass by Paul Wilczynski. $4.5K BIN.


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