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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #570 on: December 20, 2011, 02:31:19 PM »
^ Sold for $1,584.
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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #571 on: December 20, 2011, 02:49:04 PM »
Anyone know the brand and approximate year of that copy 4005? Never saw one before.

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #572 on: December 20, 2011, 10:32:43 PM »
I'm thinking it was a one-off?  The closest 4005 clones I've seen are those Shaftesbury 330-esque things...

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #573 on: December 21, 2011, 12:26:00 PM »
Never seen anything like it before and from the pics it looks accurate and well built. But I'm not going to spend $1,500+ on a bass that I couldn't resell.
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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #574 on: December 23, 2011, 09:37:55 AM »
Mid-'73 JG with checkerboard and toaster, looks like a very good deal at $2,000 BIN.


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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #575 on: January 03, 2012, 12:03:26 AM »
August 1964 RM1999 down under...




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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #576 on: January 05, 2012, 11:54:23 PM »
A new one-off from RIC outlet: 4004Cii TV Yellow/BT with 50 years old ebony fretboard. Starting at $3K.

Designated 4004cii but looks more like a 4004L to me as the body is maple and not a maple/walnut sandwich.

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #577 on: January 06, 2012, 08:51:29 AM »
Now that actually does look a lot like Gibson's original TV Model finish.

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #578 on: January 06, 2012, 01:00:31 PM »
MUCH better than those 5 C64S they just did. I was trying to see if it was a hippie sandwich or not. Hard to tell since the pics are dead-on front and rear.

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« Reply #579 on: January 06, 2012, 10:30:11 PM »
Not a hippie sandwich. The listing states all-maple body. This is what John Hall posted at the RRF:

"Technically it's neither a Cii nor an L, since it has elements of both models, so it could have gone either way.

I might mention that this is one of two I had made as a Christmas gift for a well-known bassist friend; they each had different features but in the end I chose the other one for him. This one more pleased my ear's taste, while the one I gave him more pleased my eyes, though all of that is entirely subjective.

It also seems that this is my last bass-size piece of that wonderful ebony which we've had in our wood stock for more than 50 years. I have a few more guitar-sized sticks but then it's gone. This is Theodor Nagel sourced wood that Roger Rossmiesl ordered from Hamburg in the late 1950's."
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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #580 on: January 06, 2012, 10:40:15 PM »
The walnut wings on the headstock ruin it for me - they look out of place, they don't match any other parts of the guitar. A shame too - with the ebony fingerboard matching the black hardware and headstock matching the body it could have looked really nice...

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #581 on: January 09, 2012, 09:02:39 AM »
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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #582 on: January 12, 2012, 12:39:18 AM »
4080 in solid non-burst WAL Burgundyglo:

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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #583 on: January 12, 2012, 08:19:52 AM »
I think it is just a poor picture of a Burgundy 4080. :)
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Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« Reply #584 on: January 12, 2012, 08:48:49 AM »
It DOES look like solid walnut, but I agree it is likely BG.

Now who's going to lend me 6K?  ???