It's Not A Fender...

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OK, so if I build an apl CUSTOM Guitars guitar using licensed Fender body and neck, and put an apl CUSTOM Guitars logo on it, then sell it, will Fender sue me?
 
apl said:
OK, so if I build an apl CUSTOM Guitars guitar using licensed Fender body and neck, and put an apl CUSTOM Guitars logo on it, then sell it, will Fender sue me?
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I would think they would only want to sue if you built up the guitar and left the Fender logo on, I can't see why they would be troubled by the apl logo...which is a really cool logo--by the way!
 
It would be best not to use a Fender shaped headstock, but if you are using a Fender licensed neck you should be OK. I mean, they made their cut.



Light

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Light said:
It would be best not to use a Fender shaped headstock, but if you are using a Fender licensed neck you should be OK. I mean, they made their cut.
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it would even be ok to use a neck with a fender headstock but you would not want to put a fender logo on the bass. then you could get in trouble.

just don't try to build any Rickenbacker copys and you should be fine.:cool:

:D
 
just imagine if the buyer reads this post and what he will do to you :D

i'd worry more about that than getting sued by Fender. :rolleyes:
 
As far as I know, Fender have sent cease and desist letters to people selling guitars with strat/tele headstocks.

Then again, as Light says, Fender have already made their cut if it's a licensed product, so that might change things.

Why not just buy a paddle headstock neck (they're usually cheaper), get some graph paper, a pencil and a set of french curves and cut your own headstock shape?
 
Light said:
Why would you want to? I mean, talk about a POS guitar.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
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I'm surprised by this - are they really that bad? I mean, they have a reputation - amongst certain people - of being unbelievably sought after.
 
That's what this guy's doing. I found him by looking for tilt back strat headstocks, and he's using a lot of Carvin parts.
 
32-20-Blues said:
I'm surprised by this - are they really that bad? I mean, they have a reputation - amongst certain people - of being unbelievably sought after.
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The build quality of Rick's is just horse shit. They have a distinct sound, for sure, but they are AWFUL to work on. And the 12 strings are a nightmare! As a for instance, you need to pretty much completely unstring them just to get the truss rod cover off. UGH!!!

We have a newish guy at the shop (he's been with us about 4-5 years, but has spent most of that time overseas with the Reserves). He didn't know about Rick's, and so he volunteered to take one on. It took him three days to get it set up! (We weren't helping things - any time he wasn't looking we would change something he had already done :cool: :D ). Rick's are worse to work on, if it's possible, than Floyd Rose guitars.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
I owned a Ric 366/12 for several years.

It was a real conversation piece, but not much of a player: skinny neck, jangly pickup sounds (nobody would care about 'em if Roger McGuinn hadn't exploited their weird sound, IMO) and the most fun thing about it was letting an inexperienced tech get hold of it.

You don't just snip off all 12 strings when you want to change them out...you change them one at a time, because when you take off all 12, the bridge and tailpiece fall off! It takes at least three hands to string one up from scratch.

Luckily I had mine set up by a really good tech when I first got it, but it didn't stay around longer than three or four string changes.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming....
 
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lpdeluxe said:
I owned a Ric 366/12 for several years.


You don't just snip off all 12 strings when you want to change them out...you change them one at a time, because when you take off all 12, the bridge and tailpiece fall off! It takes at least three hands to string one up from scratch.
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Blu-tac is your friend.;)
 
lpdeluxe said:
LOL

More accurately, an electric guitar without all of Ric's peculiarities is my friend.
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I'm not a fan of the build or most of the design, but they are kind of cool in a surf kind of way. They also have one of the most distinct sounds in the retro mold. Think Birds, Early Jam etc.

My best mate of 35 years is a pro bass player and he nagged for years for me to build him a Rick 5 string. I built him a decent EUB instead as a 50th birthday present and told nim to leave me alone.:D

I guess you either love em or hate em. I do both. Love the sound, hate to work on em, hate to play em.
 
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