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  1. [quote name='W1_Pro' timestamp='1485960396' post='3228032'] I do love a bass with prongs.... Fantastic collection Lorne! [/quote] Thanks :-)
  2. [quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1485900868' post='3227651'] Very useful info ref the bridge and wow! What a collection! [/quote] Cheers, there are still 3 guitars at my Wife's house, a '92 RG570, '95 USA Ignitor and an '88 Japanese BCR Condor, I have been stupid in the last year and a half and sold a Floral Jem, a Spector for booze, I even sold the yellow Jem, but got it back, I have also given away a Shadow superstrat, Westone Rail bass and Kramer bass, time I toughen up before I lose anything else LOL :-)
  3. The Bridge on the N.J. (Nagoya Japan) Series Wave bass is from 1983/4 the Mockingbird above is obviousley from 1985 and after and would have had this Gotoh made bridge on it [URL=http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/1985%20bridge_zpsounx5b9s.jpg.html][IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/1985%20bridge_zpsounx5b9s.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Also the tuners on the Mockingbird are later additions, they would have originally been Gotoh made tuners with "R" backplates I might have one or 2 USA made B.C.Riches [URL=http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/ST_zpsme85ye8c.jpg.html][IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/ST_zpsme85ye8c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/Wave_zps4cwtllt1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/Wave_zps4cwtllt1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The Wave bass ($$ bills) I built myself, it does not have a serial # even though I have pictures and serial #'s of over 14,000 B.C.Riches :-)
  4. [quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1408277203' post='2528502'] How does it compare, tone wise, to it's big brothers? [/quote] I cannot really give an accurate answer to that, as both the Widows have Maple necks and Alder wings, whereas the Bich has Koa wings with a Maple neck, and of course, the full circuit, but the tone is deeper on the Bich, it is much faster to do runs on as well, all 3 basses have Ebony Fretboards
  5. This might help, the lefthand bass is a 34" 2007 Customshop B.C.Rich Widow bass, the righthand bass is a 1994 34" Customshop B.C.Rich Widow bass, the one in the middle is a 1985 "30.5" Customshop B.C.Rich Bich bass The Bich's Fretboard is much smaller, yet they all have 24 frets :-) [URL=http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/2_zpsa162b30d.jpg.html][IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/2_zpsa162b30d.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  6. Most of you probably won't like this, but anyway I have always been a fan of a particular bass, and the original sold for $5000 3 months before I joined the internet, and I actually had the money to buy it back then as well !!!! [font=Calibri][url="http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/5000.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]So roll forward a few years and I buy a brand new 2007 one, and it cost a LOT, and was too nice to turn into a replica, but then I found a 1994 USA Handmade, cheap, that someone had aready altered, it's the one on the left[/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/aht.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]I had inlays cut for me, got Grover Titans and a Chrome Badass II for it, and I hand cut the 26 pieces of Brass and had them Chromed, Chris Eccleshall ballsed up the rest, inlays don't touch at the tips, headstock overlay is 2 pieces not one, and it is 2 different colour blacks![/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/P1010142.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/753134685F45BD9B.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]The Finished article[/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/SV202766-2.jpg.html"][/url][/font]
  7. Here is my only Shortscale at the moment, 1985 B.C.Rich Bich 8 Supreme (the one in the Middle), one of only about 20 ever made in Supreme form, I have owned 2 other Bich 8 string basses [url="http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/2_zpsa162b30d.jpg.html"][/url]
  8. It wasn't something I was actually aiming at owning, the Guy from T-Ride had one, that's all I know, but hey, it was free as was the shipping from the USA, so who am I to say No
  9. How did I miss this thread? Here is my recently aquired bass [URL=http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/DSCF2070_zps48fe261f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/DSCF2070_zps48fe261f.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  10. [quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1407545336' post='2521757'] I've got one which I had from FlatEric (thanks mate ). I don't play it much, but I'll never sell it. What a great design, and what a great sound. Also if you run the pup back to the bridge, either rail is perfectly balanced as a carry handle [/quote] There ya go, Devon and Dorset, great minds think alike :-)
  11. Ha ha ha, yes, not my usual B.C.Rich pointyness of hurt, it does hurt a bit sitting down playing it though, the pick up mount is larger than the bridge or neck mount, so it digs into your legs a bit
  12. Yep, it's in pretty good nick, pick up needs respraying, came with the original silver gigbag too
  13. [URL=http://s169.photobucket.com/user/share6_album/media/DSCF2070_zps48fe261f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u230/share6_album/DSCF2070_zps48fe261f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Well, it's been sat in my friend's house in New York for about 7 months, and now he has finally sent it to me, not as pointy as my usual fare, and I had to helicoil the lock screw as the wood was gone, but it's all good now So here it is, 1985 Westone Rail bass :-)
  14. If you want a BC Rich, go for the Bich ST, it will hang on the strap better
  15. [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1392918033' post='2374215'] Wow, you've got the bass from that video! I can vividly remember seeing it at the time - I was a huge fan of Thin Lizzy- and thinking how beautiful those guitars were and how expensive they looked I read in an interview with Geezer that when they started recording Heaven And Hell he wasn't happy with his bass sound, and it was at that point that one of the engineers suggested B C Rich , and that he subsequently visited the factory and that Bernie made the basses for Geezer himself. What Geezer understands by " making them " might well be ( in fact must be, from what you say) overseeing other craftsmen doing the actual work. I only wish that B C Rich had been able to continue as a company as they were in those days, building fantastic hand-crafted instruments with unique designs. Like so many similar sized concerns, they lost and swallowed up in takeovers and buyouts , and the brand became diluted as a result. [/quote] I think the Brand became Diluted because Rico Snr was quiet the fabricator of the truth, he let Randall Waltuch licence the B.C.Rich name, under the Class Axe banner, so Rico could go Jet Boat racing, his main boat was called Rich Bich. When he got bored of that, he took the company back, then in 1999 he died, and his son, Bernie Rico Jnr, sold the company to the Hanser Brothers. [font=Calibri]Juan Hernandez[/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s4.photobucket.com/user/190968/media/JohnnyHernandezRIP20-20Carver.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]Phil[/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s4.photobucket.com/user/190968/media/my%20basses/1978USATJMockingbirdPhilLynott.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]The Bass[/font] [font=Calibri][url="http://s4.photobucket.com/user/190968/media/my%20basses/1978USATJMockingbird.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]The bass was bought in 1979, and put in an attic in 1982, I recovered the bass from that attic in December of 2006, I was lucky enough to be given the bass :-)[/font]
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