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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2013, 08:03:41 PM »
Nice burst.  But, whats the deal with all of the holes drilled and plugged at the bridge?  Also, is it me, or does this have a maple board that's been stained?

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2013, 08:20:51 PM »
Maybe the fretboard was dried out for a while and has needed to be oiled to try to bring it back to it's original luster??
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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2013, 02:04:42 AM »
Cool! My year of birth...

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2013, 02:25:58 AM »
Usually you see that burst on fretless ones. That's the first I ever saw that was fretted. Weird back teardrop.

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2013, 05:10:19 AM »
I like it but the sunburst on the back looks realy weird.

Is that fretboard an original one? It looks like rosewood to me.

Just for comparison a picture of my tobaccoburst Ripper made in 1973.

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2013, 08:41:52 AM »
Stained maple board, IMHO.

Pretty steep for a refin.

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2013, 08:52:24 AM »
maybe started out as a natural ripper?

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2013, 12:39:34 PM »
Okay I got it: "The dirt keeps the funk!"  :mrgreen:

For sure it was a natural one! Otherwise it would have had an ebony fretboard.

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2013, 01:10:09 PM »
Greg Lake's Ripper was black with a maple fretboard. Maybe it was a custom shop or something.
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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2013, 07:44:51 AM »
I'm not sure I like the red, looks kind of cheap.

Lake's Ripper might have even been a bolt-on one, the very earliest Rippers and some of their prototypes were.
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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2013, 02:02:45 PM »
I'm not sure I like the red, looks kind of cheap.

Lake's Ripper might have even been a bolt-on one, the very earliest Rippers and some of their prototypes were.

Hmmm, maybe that would explain this Ripper, though it does appear to be the later body style.

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2013, 05:24:01 AM »
Hard to say - I've never seen one of those bolt-on Rippers, only heard about them from various sources. Just as there were initially set neck Victories as prototypes.
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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2013, 05:45:36 AM »
the copy says it "has the mid 70s Gibson upgrade of the Gibson neckplate to strengthen the set neckjoint".  that doesn't sound right.  ???

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Re: This Ripper is gorgeous!
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2013, 09:32:30 AM »
Lake's bass looks to have been a set neck Ripper.  At least it has a painted neck like most of the ebony board ones did.  Must have been a custom from Gibson?



From the GP interview:

Still another change for Greg is to Gibson after many years of keeping company with the Fender Jazz Bass. A new prototype model distributed by Gibson called "The Ripper," Lake's instrument embodies more powerful pickups than the standard bass humbuckings, as well as a mid-range choke to wring greaters highs from the instrument. Greg feels it is the most "reliable and accurate" instrument on the market. He likes a bass that is electronically well-designed with an absolutely precise neck in perfect tune all the way up to the 22nd fret of the low E string. He also prefers for nothing to be heard resonating in sympathy with a particular note; that is, the bottom E string is of the same intensity as the high G. Lake feels the main feature of his instrument is its capacity to produce four entirely different sounds. With a front and back pickup producing two different signals, the quartet of variations is created by: (1) putting the two pickups out-of-phase, (2) inserting the mid-range choke, (3) shutting off the back pickup, and (4) turning off the front pickup.

Greg powers his guitar with Crown International Amps [1718 Mishawak Road, Elk Hart, IN 46514] which run through a separate EQ circuit. Sound comes from two or three (it varies) cabinets with JBL speakers which Lake describes as a "very flat and sensitive reproduction of what the strings are putting out." Two stacks of four JBL's (two mid-range, two bass) are powered by the two Crown stereo amps and produce a total of 2,000 watts. "It's a hi-fi system, a huge hi-fi system," Lake explains, "and it reproduces the tops, the highs, the mid-range, and the lows." The Crowns are specially built high-powered units tagged DC-1000 which drive the JBL's as well as a set of large Lansing horns. A crossover takes the bass signals, and at about 400 cycles pushes them through the horns.