Cool Rics on eBay / Reverb / Craigslist

[ilan]

^ Sold for $1,584.

[mc2NY]

Anyone know the brand and approximate year of that copy 4005? Never saw one before.

[chromium]

I'm thinking it was a one-off?  The closest 4005 clones I've seen are those Shaftesbury 330-esque things...

[ilan]

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.

[ilan]

Mid-'73 JG with checkerboard and toaster, looks like a very good deal at $2,000 BIN.

[ilan]

August 1964 RM1999 down under...

[ilan]

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.

[Dave W]

Now that actually does look a lot like Gibson's original TV Model finish.

[gearHed289]

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.

[ilan]

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."

[hieronymous]

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...

[ilan]

2002 4003S/5 JG BT

[ilan]

4080 in solid non-burst WAL Burgundyglo:

[Paul Boyer]

I think it is just a poor picture of a Burgundy 4080.

[gearHed289]

It DOES look like solid walnut, but I agree it is likely BG.

Now who's going to lend me 6K?