GAS strikes again!

[drbassman]

Gas has been KILLING me for some time now, but I just dropped around $17K on a new kitchen and some laundry room work. Plus, my cover band has imploded, so that income stops as of April 1. Something keeps telling me to buy a 5 string, and there's a cherry red TB 5 on ebay that I'm SO close to pulling the trigger on. I also have this lust for an Explorer. Thinking of buying an Epi just to satisfy the need for something new. Grr.... 

Be careful, I've been there and done that!  I have the eBay flips I've done to prove it!

[drbassman]

Bill has been "Ric roaded".....

I want pictures!!!!!!!

Yep, I got bit by the "Buy American" bug again.  Just don't have any patience with Gibson these days.

Pics to follow in the RIC sub-forum as requested.

[gweimer]

Thinking of buying an Epi just to satisfy the need for something new. Grr.... 

Ears perking up....

[gearHed289]

Someone bought the red bird 5er, so I'm in the clear...

[uwe]

I'm happy to hear that you are now RICovering so quickly!

Warwick stopped delivering the bridge to Gibson because they thought it had become too much part of their image to still let it be used on other brands. That is why Gibson deleted the reg size LP basses some years back. With the oversized LPs they were thus forced to come up with something new and basically used what they had already employed with BFG LP bass and before that on the five string Epi LPs and SGs. Of course, they could have returned to the controversial three point which graced the first LP Standards in ze 90ies beföre Deutschland came to ze rescüe, but I guess they spy on this forum and did not want to cause an uprising ...

[Dave W]

If nothing else, they could have made their own Warwick-style bridge. No doubt that would have been too much trouble for them.

[uwe]

Herr Wilfer's patent Stukas would have been upon them!




For a company reputed to have been a little cavalier about other people's IP in its early days - sigh, how that Spector still looms large - Warwick is very belligerent about its own IP today. 

[Dave W]

If anything connected with that bridge design was ever patented, it would have run out by now. If there's a trademark (which there shouldn't be) it would be easy to change the appearance enough to avoid any concern. Gibson just doesn't want to do it.