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Gear Discussion Forums => Rickenbacker Basses => Topic started by: Freuds_Cat on July 27, 2009, 12:56:54 AM

Title: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Freuds_Cat on July 27, 2009, 12:56:54 AM

 :mrgreen:

This is another beauty from DHGate  ;)

http://www.dhgate.com/2009-new-arrived-rickenbacker-electric-basses/p-ff80808122a58d910122a6010e796093.html

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Basvarken on July 27, 2009, 03:07:47 AM

Woah! You gotta admire their guts. The Rickenpolice must be already after them with wailing sirens and screechin' tires  :)


Not a bad idea to put a mudbucker in a Rick... ;)

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: ilan on July 27, 2009, 03:51:37 AM

That is wrong in so many levels.

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on July 27, 2009, 03:59:53 AM

Do they make lefty ones?  8)

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: the mojo hobo on July 27, 2009, 04:54:01 AM

It's innovative. Has any one else tried a mudbucker in the bridge position on a Rick?

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: the mojo hobo on July 27, 2009, 04:55:47 AM

Quote from: ilan on July 27, 2009, 03:51:37 AM

That is wrong in so many levels.

Especially the part that says: "Made in USA"


The site is an ebay knock-off selling all kinds of "replica" products.

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Freuds_Cat on July 27, 2009, 06:35:22 AM

Quote from: ilan on July 27, 2009, 03:51:37 AM

That is wrong in so many levels.

I'm sorry ilan, I have a mate who bought a Les Paul from these guys, he is a full time musician who knows wheat from chaff. He was really quite impressed with the guitar that arrived here even though it does have the obvious differences. I went and had a look at the DH Gate site because thats where he bought it from. As soon as I saw the Ric I thought of you and couldn't help myself  ;)    I had to post it here, especially here due to the Muddy in it. I apologise for being so childish, but knowing you are a good sport I still had a bit of a giggle. ;D

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Basvarken on July 27, 2009, 06:52:34 AM

I wonder if those instruments would ever get through customs...

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Freuds_Cat on July 27, 2009, 06:59:31 AM

They did here Rob, although my Melody Maker from the USA was stopped and questioned  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Dave W on July 27, 2009, 07:19:41 AM

Amazing that they got through anywhere. It's one thing to make a Rick copy, quite another to counterfeit. Even though anyone knowledgeable about Ricks would recognize it as counterfeit, the general public would not. This would be criminal fraud under US law.

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: chromium on July 27, 2009, 11:11:02 AM

Quote from: Basvarken on July 27, 2009, 06:52:34 AM

I wonder if those instruments would ever get through customs...

Those might be subject to "special handling"  ;D

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/0chromium0/forums/woodchipper.jpg)


It is a nice looking bass, though.  Hey it's the reverse-Cliff-Burton model!   (sorta... well not really...)

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: eb2 on July 27, 2009, 04:40:22 PM

I would think with some plastic surgery it could be a nice platform for a better ride.  Hard to get a good Rick copy anymore, as we all know.  But I recall a bunch of the shoddier Ibanez/Aria knock offs having fake mudbuckers in them.

This is still my favorite:
http://www.vintage-guitars.se/1974_Sigma_Rickenbacker-copy.htm

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: uwe on July 28, 2009, 04:03:05 AM

Finally a "Ric" (Lickenbackel"?) with a sensible bridge, nuff said.

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: clankenstein on July 28, 2009, 04:18:26 AM

now thats plain weird.wouldnt the pickups be better with the mudbucker in the front and a ricky like pickup in the back?

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: Dave W on July 28, 2009, 05:49:00 AM

Quote from: uwe on July 28, 2009, 04:03:05 AM

(Lickenbackel"?)

ROR!

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: ilan on July 28, 2009, 02:28:28 PM

Quote from: tubehead on July 28, 2009, 04:18:26 AM

now thats plain weird. wouldnt the pickups be better with the mudbucker in the front and a ricky like pickup in the back?

I played one of those SG-shaped low-end Staggs (mentioned here (http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=1047)) with the mudbucker near the bridge, and it made a very nice noise.

Title: Re: Ya gotta love the Chinese
Post by: drbassman on July 30, 2009, 04:48:04 AM

"That's just not right!!!"  Keven Meany   :P