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[quote name='SS73' post='1192929' date='Apr 8 2011, 02:58 PM']Just put it all back together, so no strings yet, but it kind of looked quite good. 72 non skunk, walnuts flat grovers etc


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'72 pre-skunk? Now you're talking. :)

Here are my current 2; recently received the '72 Azure which is something I've been after for 17 years; I've only ever seen 4 and only 2 of them were for sale. This is one of them. It needs a little work (a new bit of outer binding where it's missing - the checkerboard is intact & I'm keeping the original elsewhere - and a pro set up) but is a wonderful bass.

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[quote name='4000' post='1193085' date='Apr 8 2011, 05:06 PM']'72 pre-skunk? Now you're talking. :)

Here are my current 2; recently received the '72 Azure which is something I've been after for 17 years; I've only ever seen 4 and only 2 of them were for sale. This is one of them. It needs a little work (a new bit of outer binding where it's missing - the checkerboard is intact & I'm keeping the original elsewhere - and a pro set up) but is a wonderful bass.

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Holy ...., AZ from pre 73, never seen one, ever. The BG looks so cool too.

I will post my 75 AZ when I get chance, JG,AZ and BG the 3 best colours.

With the JG it's may 72, i couldn't see a skunk stripe at all and looking closer at the peg holes I could see it had Walnut wings too, but looking at all other 72's of this period they had the stripe ( all the MG and BG's etc where you could see it ), so I figured that all the old stock bodies from 71 they had left were made into solid colour basses, so as not to make the new range appear different.

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[quote name='SS73' post='1193175' date='Apr 8 2011, 07:03 PM']Holy ...., AZ from pre 73, never seen one, ever. The BG looks so cool too.

I will post my 75 AZ when I get chance, JG,AZ and BG the 3 best colours.

With the JG it's may 72, i couldn't see a skunk stripe at all and looking closer at the peg holes I could see it had Walnut wings too, but looking at all other 72's of this period they had the stripe ( all the MG and BG's etc where you could see it ), so I figured that all the old stock bodies from 71 they had left were made into solid colour basses, so as not to make the new range appear different.

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It was advertised as a '73 but irrespective of the jackplate (which is August '72) you can tell from the features it's a '72. Full-width crushed pearl, original aluminium bridge etc. There are only 4 '72 Azures on the Rick Registration page, so I can't imagine there are many out there. I don't think I've ever seen one pre-'72 in AZ.

My other bass is actually a dark Fireglo, not BG (or Autumnglo for that matter). It's hands down the best Ric I've ever had, although the AZ isn't far off. There are other pics on the previous page. The AZ has a skunk. Never come across an AZ without, although they may exist. The Fireglo is Feb and is pre-skunk; it's one of the last pre-skunk's I've seen and could indeed be a '71 body that left the factory late. I find the easiest way to tell on a solid colour if it's got a skunk is usually (assuming you can't feel/see the ridge under the paint) to look under the trc; there's usually sufficient paint missing behind the rods to make it obvious.

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[quote name='warriorbass05' timestamp='1323127601' post='1459725']
Here are mine

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Rickenbackers have been a bit of a slow burn for me...a bit like Marmite. I couldn't really put my finger on precisely what it was that I didn't like; sure I liked the tone, but they always looked a tad old-fashioned and the triangular neck-inlays were a real turn off. What kind of turned me was seeing some shots of an all black model on here a while back...no chequered body-binding, no silvered-chrome in sight, black plate and hardware, dots on the neck. To actually see not one, but four similar models in a single shot is the closest I've seen to some [i]real [/i]bass porn on here for a while. Forget Susan Coffey, I'm going to go to bed dreaming of those basses tonight.

Great collection (well, four out of five! :) )
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