New 2009 Grabber II and, yes, even the Ripper!

[Dave W]

"use up what we got" has a long tradition at Gibson.

[Barklessdog]

Funny, but they would have to remake those Ripper pups. They must still have the tooling for the covers.

The million dollar question on the Ripper is how much?


I can't imagine a $5,000 Ripper???

[uwe]

I'm positve there are TB Plus pups lurking underneath these covers. It's only make believe ...

[aluminumcatfish]

I guess it would out of the question to make an Alder bodied Ripper. 

[uwe]

Alder is kind of a no-wood for Gibson, they never did much with it except on select models in short phases. Gibson is kind of black and white, either/or in woods: maho or maple.

[Dave W]

Funny, but they would have to remake those Ripper pups. They must still have the tooling for the covers.

The million dollar question on the Ripper is how much?


I can't imagine a $5,000 Ripper???

Uwe will be sad if they reproduce the original pickups.

I'm not going to dig back through the thread, but didn't someone post that the street price was $300 more than the Grabber? Something like $2500 vs. $2200?

[ramone57]

I'm positve there are TB Plus pups lurking underneath these covers. It's only make believe ...

[uwe]

Uwe has said nasty things about the Ripper pups in the past, yes. But people change and so do their tastes. I've grown fond of especially one of my Rippers, the early one from 1973 with the original big(ger) body. It is modified so that one position now has the neck pup in solo mode. Anyway, I like that mapleboarded bass' sound. It sounds natural, with subtle authority and with a lot of wood in the sound. That said, I wouldn't mind if the new Ripper had new pups just for the variety of it, I'm not one who believes reissues should slavishly try to recreate what was state of the art 30 years ago. Had the Ripper been in continuous production through all these years, today's Ripper wouldn't be your father's Ripper either.

[Iome]

Did they change their mind at Gibson? There's nothing on the page linked by Uwe anymore....

[uwe]

No idea where they have stuck it now. The Gibson home site has never made any real sense and the links more often than not do not work for miraculous reasons.

Edit: It's back.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/introducing-the-2009-325/




But are Tobias basses now honorary Gibsons?  Not that I want to appear to(o) biased on these fine instruments ... I guess this is as close as they will ever get to releasing the Continental V.

And that Exholer looks a bit like a halloween pumpkin from afar.

[Highlander]

Tobias'd...? Uwe...?

[godofthunder]

"use up what we got" has a long tradition at Gibson.

That's how we ended up with the NR Thunderbirds !

[ramone57]

the reissue Grabber II


http://www.sweetwater.com/guitargallery/bass/all/s004391403/

[Barklessdog]

the reissue Grabber II


http://www.sweetwater.com/guitargallery/bass/all/s004391403/

Whats up with the scratched up pickguard?  The guard it transparent?

[uwe]

I think that is just protective plastic foil.

That unfinned neck in combination with a set neck construction is strange. Yet alluring.