Copy/Clone bass?

[badboy1984]

Is it me or this shop sells copy/clone version of bass? Price is so cheap but some item have the name on the headstock ....

[url="http://thetopguitars.com/products/Custom-Shop-4003-Fireglo-Sunburst-Electric-Bass-.html"]http://thetopguitars...tric-Bass-.html[/url]

Edited October 16, 2012 by badboy1984

[PaulWarning]

it does say [url="http://thetopguitars.com/brands/Custom-Shop-Rickenbacker-Inspired-Guitar.html"] Rickenbacker Inspired Guitar[/url]

[bremen]

IBTTOLA

[gjones]

if you don't like it, It's an awful long way to go to take it back to the shop.

[cytania]

Clone suggests an accurate copy. This isn't anywhere close. The hardware looks like cheap metal bent into rough approximations. Some Chinese copies they've learnt how to make an item from the legit production line. Can't be the case here as Rickenbacker are strictly US only. Avoid.

[badboy1984]

check out this musicman copy.

http://thetopguitars.com/products/Musicman-4-Strings-Electric-Bass-.html

[LemonCello]

I love the fact that the sales blurb says "the guitar is 100% similar to the one shown in the photograph"!!!!!....Priceless

[mcnach]

[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1350409377' post='1838472']
check out this musicman copy.

[url="http://thetopguitars.com/products/Musicman-4-Strings-Electric-Bass-.html"]http://thetopguitars...tric-Bass-.html[/url]
[/quote]


my eyes vomited.

[tommorichards]

The hell, they have a herfner 6 string beatle bass!! [url="http://thetopguitars.com/products/6-Strings-Violin-Electric-Guitar-Black.html"]http://thetopguitars.com/products/6-Strings-Violin-Electric-Guitar-Black.html[/url]

And this!! [url="http://thetopguitars.com/products/Custom-Shop-2012-Double-Neck-4-and-12-String-Electric-Guitar-.html"]http://thetopguitars.com/products/Custom-Shop-2012-Double-Neck-4-and-12-String-Electric-Guitar-.html[/url]

Is it bad to say im very tempted?

[badboy1984]

several tempted bass actually and the price is decent enough to buy one and try one out ....... interest on the rick copy actually lol

[Big_Stu]

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Edited October 16, 2012 by Big_Stu

[badboy1984]

Check these out:

Warwick copy (corvette)
http://thetopguitars.com/products/Custom-Shop-Inspired-Warwick-Bass.html

OLP is copy i think too
http://thetopguitars.com/products/Great-OIP-5-Strings-Electric-Bass-In-Black-.html

check out this Rick copy as well (see headstock as well)
http://thetopguitars.com/products/Custom-Shop-Rickenbacker-Fireglo-4003-Black-Bass.html

[such]

the OLP (OIP ) looks like the real thing, they made two pickup versions towards the end of production. If it's one of those and it's really unused, the price is good. Still, I wouldn't do business with that shop.

[Musky]

It's not a shop, it's the manufacturer's own website. I'd lay money that the NYC phone number is redirected to China, even if it rings at all. This stuff is all over TrandTang and similar sites.

Anyone buying would do well to remember to factor in about 25% in taxes and duties, and keep their fingers crossed that customs allow it into the country.

[mcnach]

[quote name='such' timestamp='1350428325' post='1838915']
the OLP (OIP ) looks like the real thing, they made two pickup versions towards the end of production. If it's one of those and it's really unused, the price is good. Still, I wouldn't do business with that shop.
[/quote]

I think there must have been a lot of OLP parts on sale after production stopped.
I have seen over the past couple of years a number of OLP MM2 basses with a few odd bits, very unusual colours, the wrong type of pickguard, slightly different body shape, etc.

I suspect various people/companies bought crates of parts, and some were assembled into "genuine" OLP instruments, while some instruments end up just having an OLP neck and some hardware etc

[Kongo]

Damn, back when I liked playing them that was the style of OLP I wanted; the two pickup option with maple fingerboard.
No longer looking however...wonder how good these clones are? I'll bet someone here is gonna check eventually. :-P
Who's the guilty one going to be?

[badboy1984]

I got to admit i do have interest on the 5 string OLP and Rick copy.

[tommorichards]

i want the "sabre" necks from the MM basses mainly, as it would be a lot easier to throw in on my project.

[dincz]

[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1350409377' post='1838472']
check out this musicman copy.

[url="http://thetopguitars.com/products/Musicman-4-Strings-Electric-Bass-.html"]http://thetopguitars...tric-Bass-.html[/url]
[/quote]

It includes a bow?
"Bow Material: Brazil Wood"

[Kongo]

[quote name='dincz' timestamp='1350550611' post='1840290']
It includes a bow?
"Bow Material: Brazil Wood"
[/quote]

What the...? That's what it says haha!