By some unwritten convention, BC Rich has never featured in the “worst finish etc” thread, as though it’s an acknowledged fact that they’re uggerlee. Time was, you could almost forgive them because they had quality construction and hardware, but not anymore. Agathis bodies, EMG-Hz pups… I was covering a tech class with some 15 y.o. wannabe Satanists doing a guitar design. I suggested they look up the BC Rich site and they were all “wow, cool” etc. That’s the target market, I guess 🙄

The Ritter basses seem even more annoying to me because they have so many good design touches but its as if they put the designs through some ‘Uglifier’ before manufacture. Shame.

On those basses, I would suggest you go and look at a few BC Rich guitars and see how the points are knocked off!

The Basslab is also very high end expensive, and even more barking in the visuals department. This is a paste from the “Worst finish” thread and apols for the fuzzyness, but the white background on the original pic is to blame:

http://www.die-linke-bass-saite.de/bilder/baesse3/basslab-l-bow.gif

Mack, when Lee did the first “Worst colour/finish/detail” thread, it was retired and put as a “sticky” at the top of the guitar category. It’s worth a look, one of the funniest threads ever. I did nominate some Ritter and Basslab basses (see page three of the thread). You’ve managed to find some even uglier hounds of theirs, though. What’s with the access on the fretless? Is it supposed to be played upright? 😯 Good finds, Mack.

Ritters are horrendously expensive ($4000+ in English money) and I’m sure they are top-drawer in terms of materials and components. Just incredibly ugly, though. What I like about bass players is how different we are to conservative, boring guitarists always choosing a Strat or a LP. Thru necks, active EQ, active pups, use of graphite and exotic woods, they’re all much more enthusiastically taken up by the bass player. Ritter’s just pushing it too far, though, in my opinion.