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[quote name='clauster' post='313742' date='Oct 24 2008, 01:02 PM']fairy tale of new york is the only good xmas song according to my band's singer[/quote] That's the other good one! That and Greg Lake's [i]I Believe In Father Christmas[/i]. Be a struggle to do a straight cover of that, though. Jon.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='313542' date='Oct 24 2008, 09:02 AM']Subtle he ain't. First time I've seen someone actually put "Lawsuit" in the title of a RickenFaker listing. [/quote] I beg to differ, young Sir: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120320874412"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120320874412[/url] But no R-words. You don't need 'em to get pulled... Anyway, his has a single rod (so it's not a Mat) & he's going to contact me [s]if[/s] when it gets pulled. I'd give him the £230 for it, since that's what he's prepared to accept if it gets no bids. J.

This one's as good as gone already: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250313534682"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=250313534682[/url] New tuners & fakey TRC means I can't really ID it - although probably Shaftie, Giannini or Matsumoku. I've asked if it has twin rods (and suggested he removes the R word from his listing!) if it does, it's a Mat. Probably. J.

Dear me, they'll be organising the lynch mobs over at RickResource - new bridge (Schaller 3D - good choice!) scratchplate, pups - including routing for the neck one - and that paintjob! I think it looks the business. Jon.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='312670' date='Oct 23 2008, 01:04 AM']hang on. recycled plastic over a maple body? So whats the point of the plastic bits? If you have a maple neck and maple body whats so green about screwing a lump of plastic on the front and back? If you can source the maple sustainably why not just use that?[/quote] Bye-bye Unique Selling Point. We wouldn't be talking about them & hitting the website. J.

For a moment there I though this was a [i]Battlestar Galactica[/i] thread! Both of the basses are hideous, and don't claim to be made from recycled materials. I do quite like some of the guitar body materials - but the overall impression is that they're made from solidified sick. If you want recycled guitars, go to your local car boot. Jon.

I had one of their Rick-esque neckthroughs a couple of years back, they were selling them off for £99 and it was a bit of an impulse buy. It turned up presented immaculately, spotless, polished & tuned. However it wasn't perfect - my main problem was that the 3-band active pre was shagged - there was next-to-no output, and what was there was unpleasantly distorted. I returned the bass, hoping for either a repair or a replacement but later received an incredibly patronising email telling me basically there was nothing wrong with the bass - and that all active basses sounded like this! Anyway the upshot was that they refused to exchange it - saying they were all the same - and offered to either return it or refund me. I opted to keep the bass - it got sent back filthy, scratched & part-dismantled. I also requested they refund me the postage I'd wasted sending the bass to them - but they never did. In my experience Wesley do sell well-presented, decent quality cheapos - but their customer & after-sales service is worse than abysmal. Their responses do also suggest utter ineptitude as far as actually having the remotest clue about the products they sell - their "technical department" is presumably some guy with a polishing cloth & a digital tuner. Anyway - I managed to sell the non-functioning pre for for spares - I got £20 - and replaced it with an Artec SE3 - which you could get for about £12 delivered from Singapore at the time. Sounded fine and I ended up not out of pocket. However as a result of all that, I wouldn't touch Wesley again with a bargepole. Jon.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='311890' date='Oct 22 2008, 11:00 AM'][url="http://www.mevtaylors.co.uk/rick_bass.htm"]http://www.mevtaylors.co.uk/rick_bass.htm[/url][/quote] £550??????? /falls off chair. Mev Taylors is just down the road from me - might have to go in for a [s]laugh[/s] look. J.

[quote name='Mike' post='311740' date='Oct 22 2008, 07:37 AM']If I had a penny for everytime I found myself in [i]that[/i] situation....[/quote] If I had a penny for every time these ridiculous instruments get posted here! Search the forum for Tennessee guitars - you'll find the most incredulous thing of all is that many of these "designs" are actually knock-offs of one-off custom basses! Jon.

Time we had an update here! Pre-copy era Japanese P-ish thing, Kawai or Teisco, prob'ly. I love some of the detail on this - the edge position markers & bridge cover: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190259165449"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=190259165449[/url] Aria Cardinal, pretty transparent blue: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290268932649"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=290268932649[/url] Gherson TallyCrap P - maybe. Looks tidy anyway: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120320213554"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120320213554[/url] Aria Laser Heritage - incredibly crap listing means someone's going to get this for 99p, if they're lucky: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110301756434"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=110301756434[/url] I'm not entirely sure about this - but I [i]think[/i] it's one of the recent reissued Kays, which were going for quite silly money in the US a few years back - either way, it's £50 BIN, if you can collect it: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140276270276"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=140276270276[/url] J.

[quote name='Musky' post='310907' date='Oct 20 2008, 11:54 PM']Interesting faker with a BIN on £250, though it's had a neck repair. No binding at the base of the body - I thought it was just the Giannini's that had that, but the tuners on this look very Japanese. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ibanez-cimar-Familiar-70s-bass-copy-SUPERB_W0QQitemZ180300654322"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ibanez-cimar-Familia...emZ180300654322[/url][/quote] Turns out quite a lot of the Jap neckthroughs have the gap - my Matsumoku project (coming soon - honest!!) and that poor brutalised thing I sold recently both had it. Anyway this looks like a former Shaftesbury - or possibly a Cimar, I think these were the same. Looks nice for £250. J.

[quote name='nick' post='310064' date='Oct 19 2008, 09:32 PM']Be careful[/quote] I have everything crossed that's crossable, and quite a few appendages that ordinarily aren't. However there's not much I can do without pictures - here it is, if anyone's interested: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120320874412"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120320874412[/url] G'wan - make us an offer! J.

[quote name='nick' post='309984' date='Oct 19 2008, 07:12 PM']I've had a Rickenfaker auction repeatedly pulled, whereby there was no mention of anything Rick related. Think they still claim copyright on headstock design etc. If Big John simply doesn't like it, they'll take it down - no messing.[/quote] Gah. Bloody tell me about it. In about half an hour I'll be listing a lovely little 325 copy (g*it*r - as played by some bloke out the Beatles) for the third time. I'm concerned if they have me again, my account will go with it. There is absolutely nothing in the listing text that violates their T&Cs - but when did that matter? That "Career"'s interesting - from the pic it looks very like the Shine copy, with a fairly accurate-looking bridge. If so that's a pretty good price - the Shine tends to be £500+ J.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='309694' date='Oct 19 2008, 10:29 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320311848161"]320311848161[/url] Colourful version of the one Nick has methinks. Countdown to vanishing...[/quote] That's a bit of a stunner. It'll be gone in a minute. J.

I thought Friendly Fires were OK, in a heard-it-done-better-100-times-before way, and they got extra points for using a Peavey T-40 rather than a Fender. [i]God Is In The House[/i] is a Nick Cave cover. But the girl singing it wouldn't have a career if some record label didn't want their own Amanda Palmer. Snow Patrol were their usual leaden, repetitive & uninspired toss - better bands play to an empty bar at your local student union every night. I thought Tom Jones' drummer seemed so stilted, mechanical & unsubtle that he just distracted from everything else. This really isn't turning out very good, is it? :ph34r: Jon.

[quote name='two worlds collide' post='309245' date='Oct 18 2008, 02:12 PM']I am also happy to swap for a good rickenfaker preferably with a through neck something like,ibanez, aria, grecko, univox,electra with an authentic sound.[/quote] Go & read this thread for everything you'll ever need to know about Rick copies: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=270"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=270[/url] To give you a head start - from your list: Greco, Univox & Electra were non-UK brands (Greco's Japanese domestic market, the other 2 are US) and are virtually unknown over here, an Ibanez will sound nothing like the real thing - they have Gibson-type mudbuckers, and all the through-neck Arias have long-since been badged up & sold as Rickenbackers, cos they're near-as-bugger-it identical! Seriously, don't get too hung up on it being neck-through, they're rarer, dearer, and quite often much less playable, because you can't shim the necks down. I've seen some through-necks with horrendous & uncorrectable action. Anyway - welcome to BC and good luck selling your bass! Jon.

[quote name='rjb' post='309074' date='Oct 18 2008, 09:39 AM']Great fun. I'd actually buy that for a laugh it it was cheap and local enough.[/quote] Why not do what that seller's done - buy a nondescript £60 junk bass & some Letraset. Jon.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='309018' date='Oct 18 2008, 12:56 AM']Kay with a BIN.[/quote] [coat]Should be in one.[/coat] J.

[quote name='4000' post='306527' date='Oct 14 2008, 07:05 PM']The tug bar would've been on the scratchplate. The screws have actually been screwed into the body between the bridge and treble pickup.[/quote] I did wonder what they might be for - maybe some sort of surface-mount pickup? Can't think what else you could put there... Do you know that Pickguardian do replica plexiglass tug bars for Ricks? Would finish it off a treat! [url="http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/RICRest.html"]http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/RICRest.html[/url] J.

Well - I've never seen a "DC Montana 77" in the flesh, but I briefly had this: [attachment=14743:front2.jpg] Which is remarkably similar - mine was branded "Flying", & presumably flew all the way from China! The only difference appears to be the headstock shape and the nice pearl scratchplate on mine. These come up priced at about £100 from those German musical instrument shops which come & go on Ebay. For reference - this is what they're emulating: I love the lippy pickups on the Flashback... J.

These do pop up from time to time - it's basically a Warwick Fortress Flashback knockoff - and their pedigree/origin is very, very questionable: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3046"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3046[/url] J.

[quote name='noirpunk' post='305689' date='Oct 13 2008, 06:25 PM']That mapleglo Ibanez is the perfect sorta Rickenfaker for me and my pumpy punk basslines. Not liking the price tho hah![/quote] Might be worth making an offer - he'd probably let it go for £350 or maybe a bit less. J.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='305196' date='Oct 13 2008, 08:18 AM']£175 for a couple of pieces of wood that used to be in the shape of a Ricky copy? And there was me thinking that we were in the grip of a financial crisis![/quote] [quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='305393' date='Oct 13 2008, 12:19 PM']I was all copied ready to paste into this thread before I noticed a familiar name.[/quote] Like I said, I'm absolutely gobsmacked - I thought I'd be lucky to get £30 for it... I bought it for the parts - mostly the pickups - for my long delayed Matsumoku Faker revival, and really just wanted the sad remains out of the way. It was way too far gone for me to even consider offering it here! As far as the financial crisis is concerned, there's weird stuff afoot, IMO. I think there's more of a feeding frenzy for budget basses & guitars, particularly old JapCrap - and I wonder if that's not because people are less able to buy newer or more prestigious stuff - but they've still got to feed their GAS! Strange, strange days... J.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='305112' date='Oct 12 2008, 11:01 PM']Lots turning up all of a sudden. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ibanez-Vintage-Bass-Guitar-70s-Lawsuit-Era-MIJ_W0QQitemZ140274709289QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140274709289&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ibanez-Vintage-Bass-...id=p3286.c0.m14[/url] A re-build by Ashdigits. And 10 minutes later: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/shaftesbury-bass-sunburst-1970s-vintage-japan_W0QQitemZ260299429704QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item260299429704&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/shaftesbury-bass-sun...id=p3286.c0.m14[/url][/quote] Oh, I do like that mock 4000 that Ash is selling. That's probably about the only way you could make a Fujigen Faker look halfway convincing! And here's one y'all missed, just finished today and my jaw is still on the floor... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120312992469"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120312992469[/url] Just goes to show what a feeding frenzy there is for anything remotely Rick shaped. Or maybe it's the way "he" sells 'em... J.