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This one is from '67; student model with "Boyd" Vibrato. Bought on eBay a couple of years ago for about $400.00 (I forget) as a beat-up player. Original color was Fireglo.

Now it's blaaaack. Just finished it last week.





Here it is in process with its brother, an Azureglo 450S with the same vibrato.



Here's the vibrato assembly, still made and used on Japanese solidbodies. Simple, but effective:



Here's the finished product with Big Brother, a fretless Rick 4001 Shadow-inspired bass, finished a couple of weeks ago.

Goodness, that's pretty - nice work.

Sleek n. sexy!

SO SO nice!

And good photos too!

oh my, those are nice looking guitars and some sweet work

oooo nice. did it have black hardware originally? is that the original pickup?

so-sexy

Mages wrote:oooo nice. did it have black hardware originally? is that the original pickup?

Originally, this was a hulk picked up on eBay for cheap (for a Rick, anyway). It was Fireglo originally. When I got it it didn't have a fretboard, so that was my starting point. The Fireglo finish was already stripped and painted black with a brush, so this was completely removed down to bare maple. Hardware would have been chrome originally; pickguard would have been white. I made the fretboard from some flamed Bubinga that I have.

The hardware came from my parts bin; I have quite a bit of black powder-coated Rick hardware. The bass shown was originally white with black hardware.

In the past year, I've completed four older Rick solidbodies for my own collection, and I've got two more to finish. The other ones completed were a '65 450/12 and a '61 425, both in Fireglo, and the '56 Combo 400 in Cloverfield Green, which I posted awhile ago in the thread "Non-Fender Shortscales".

Remaining to assemble when time permits: A '61 Combo 1000 in Fireglo, and the '67 450S in Azureglo Blue with white guard and chrome trim.

That is one cool lookin pair of Ricks. Man, there is no way you could pick up a Rickie in any condition in the UK for that kind of money. Being in Europe sucks when it comes to buying guitars and amps!