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 Post subject: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: November 23rd, 2019, 11:02 am 
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Hey guys,

New here. I'm jonesing for an early 80s Ibanez fretless... But also generally interested in Musicians and Roadsters of any variety. I would love to find a stock lefty Roadster fretless... but they might be super rare. However the Roadsters have a glued on fingerboard, so I have also considered having my luthier replace the board with a solid maple board and do the cool offset inlays like a stock RS. I'm not a fan of lined-fretless boards.

But I'm also keeping an eye out for fretted Musicians, Roadsrters and RoadstArs in general. I love the 2x2 headstock models, and especially love maple fingerboards.

If anybody is thinking of parting with theirs, for a reasonable price, please PM me. I'm also open to trades, I have some Ibanez pedals and other stuff too.

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 Post subject: Re: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: November 23rd, 2019, 11:20 am 
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Welcome!

Here's a reasonably priced fretted 1981 MC924 in France:
https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-1756952

You'll be hard pressed to find a factory fretless, although I have seen one or two RS940's. Without the tiny offset dots, I've only seen those on the MC940 and have never seen a factory fretless Musician. If I had, it would stand in my rack right now :P

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 Post subject: Re: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: November 23rd, 2019, 12:20 pm 
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Man, Anybody here speak french or know how to navigate that page? I would buy that Musician in a heartbeat. There's a maniac on Reverb asking $2500 here in the states. :roll:

As for fretless Roadsters... not sure if you are only referring to lefties... but the tiny offset dots are almost always on the RS940 Here's a righty for sale:
https://reverb.com/item/28506119-ibanez ... 1981-black
And a google search for RS940 shows most of them have the tiny dots. that's why I figured a lefty would too if it existed.

I've never seen any lefty factory fretless MC or RS series basses ever either.

Do you happen to know if the Ibanez guitars from this era used regular glue for their fingerboards, as opposed to epoxy? If so, it would be a pretty straight-forward mod to make one look like a factory fretless.


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 Post subject: Re: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: November 23rd, 2019, 2:21 pm 
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No idea, I've never taken mine apart ;)
I have two MC924's and an RS924.
I found a catalog shot of an RS940 that had no inlays, that's where I based my post on. I didn't Google more.

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 Post subject: Re: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: November 23rd, 2019, 3:47 pm 
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Jeroen wrote:
I found a catalog shot of an RS940 that had no inlays, that's where I based my post on. I didn't Google more.


Those catalog scans are either lo-res or the specimens pictures are prototypes or at the very beginning of production runs.

If you Google Ibanez RS-940 you will see some beautiful maple fingerboards. ;)


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PostPosted: December 21st, 2019, 3:44 am 
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There’s a fella in Nice, France, who contacted me, he has decided to sell his MC924 lefty. I think the electronics are not 100% but you could fit a newer lower noise preamp if you are not fussy.
PM me if serious. He may have sold it as he got in touch last month.

I have seen a fretless RS 924 lefty recently FS but think it was modified.
I have these currently:
RS924
MC924
RB850
RB650


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 Post subject: Re: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: December 23rd, 2019, 9:51 am 
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0vid wrote:
There’s a fella in Nice, France, who contacted me, he has decided to sell his MC924 lefty. I think the electronics are not 100% but you could fit a newer lower noise preamp if you are not fussy.
PM me if serious. He may have sold it as he got in touch last month.

I have seen a fretless RS 924 lefty recently FS but think it was modified.
I have these currently:
RS924
MC924
RB850
RB650


Interesting. Is it the same guy in the link above? I'm interested.


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 Post subject: Re: Early 80s Ibanez
PostPosted: January 20th, 2020, 7:16 am 
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There's a rather expensive but stunning defretted RS924 on eBay in the UK right now.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3429139087

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