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[gearHed289]

Really strange.... been playing Rics on and off for over 30 years and never seen this. Now TWO in one month?

Paul's reasoning sounds completely logical to me.

I'd have it painted Azureglo. 

[ilan]

I'll have to go with Dale on this one.

Yes, me too. There are three 71-72 gluebursts on eBay now - they can't all be stripped basses that the sellers failed to disclose.

[gearHed289]

Yes, me too. There are three 71-72 gluebursts on eBay now - they can't all be stripped basses that the sellers failed to disclose.

Very good point. OK, I'm going neutral on this. 

[Dave W]

I respect Paul's knowledge, but when there's a direct explanation by someone who was there, I'll go with that.

[Daniel_J]

I think Paul locked the thread just because he realized that Dales argument makes much more sense than his.

I can understand that someone might have been lazy when striping an old finish, but why other people would be doing the same thing?
There are a number of Rics like that, and there are japanese copies like that aswell.

[weekend warrior]

One thing you all have to remember here.Dale fortune was working at Rickenbacker in 1972! He probably finished the same instruments were talking about.Fortune is a full blown pro that knows his craft! and especially Rickenbacker.He has built and repaired more ricks then weve all seen!

[Hornisse]

Dale is the man!  I sent my '72 Eggplant to him for a refret/refinish on the fingerboard.  He turned it from this:





Into this:

[Denis]

Nice! Hope he didn't ship it to you in that tiny little case.  
That whole glueburst topic was pretty interesting, both here and on Ric Resource.
First, I love the "glueburst" title and it made sense as soon as I saw that first photo.
Second, I'd have to defer to someone who built them 35 years ago.
Third, 35 years does odd things to wood, metal, plastic, etc., and two seemingly identical things built at the same time by the same person with the exact same materials and procedures may end up not being identical at all (I know this from owning Italian motorcycles ).
Fourth, unless I missed something, all the pics of "gluebursts" were checkerboard bound basses. Did it happen to post-checkerboards I wonder.

[Hornisse]

Good points Denis.  Dale actually shipped it in the original black tolex case that came with it.  The Eggplant had some wear around the binding but none of the Glueburst effect.

[Dave W]

Paul does excellent work. And if he were scared that Dale would make him look bad, he would have just deleted those posts.

He's in his position at RRF because of Peter McCormick, not John Hall.

[ilan]

Cool custom paint job on this '77:

[warriorbass05]

Cool custom paint job on this '77:

I want that one...it would go good with my other painted Rick!!!!

[SeanS]

Cool custom paint job on this '77:

Not sure about the binding.

[Hornisse]

http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Rickenbacker-4000-4-string-bass-guitar-/260704696579?pt=Guitar&hash=item3cb335f903

Cool '67 4000.

And now, back to our regular scheduled program! (or programme)

The '67 4000 sold for $5655!   

[Daniel_J]

The custom paint job looks cool indeed, but I am not sure if it is a well made pro paint job. It might look good on the pictures, but could be a different story up close and personal. And even if it is a well made job, I think it is overpriced for the vintage and the bridge and tuners mods.

Anyway, I love the look of the schaller tuners on 70s headstock. But the badass bridge always turns me off, even though string spacing looks ok, which is a good thing compared to a lot of Rics out there with badass bridges and strings falling off the fingerboard on high frets.