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Holy Mother of Earth!
https://reverb.com/item/1122709-rickenb ... eft-handed

This makes me glad I am not a five-string guy! I would end up doing something stupid!

There's can't be many more of these, if there is even another lefty Ric 5 string, but wow that is a high price.

bhunt1 wrote:There's can't be many more of these, if there is even another lefty Ric 5 string, but wow that is a high price.

They produced a dozen or more from what I've seen. I had a '94 I bought brand new, but sold it to someone in Austrailia back in 2000 when I severed my wrist & though I was done playing(plus to pay for medical bills). It was very neck-heavy, and didn't really have the traditional Rick sound. There was also one from a lefty-specialist seller in the UK last time I looked.

I'd be curious to know if he gets his price. I can think of many other basses I'd spend that much on, but I could understand someone wanting it bad enough... To it seems more like a $3k bass though.

He dropped his price to $3850

Still a little high. If I were a RIC guy or a collector, thats a nice catch but I also agree, $3000 is more on the fair side.

He is open for offers, if one of you guys are interest in it throw him a number!

First time I have ever seen one. I had heard they were produced in limited numbers..

AHNC wrote:First time I have ever seen one. I had heard they were produced in limited numbers..

I'm pretty sure the one I bought had been in their warehouse about a year. I'd asked a local music store about them initially. They contacted Rick, who said they had one in stock, and then he wouldn't budge from full retail. About a year later I was talking to a luthier friend about it, so he called them up & asked - they let him have it for wholesale despite him not being a dealer.

I still have the strap I used on mine. It's a 3"-wide woven strap, but to help counterbalance the neck-dive I taped about 2lbs of steel to the end of the strap.