NBD: Rickenfaker Content!

Yakob · #1 01-25-2013, 07:27 PM

Courtesy of JMac4strngr!

Set neck, purpleburst finish. Sounds great! Probably closest I'll ever get to the real thing

Not that I'm really complaining. Like I said, this thing sounds great, and plays great. Not to mention that it looks cool as hell.

I Can't Dance · #2 01-25-2013, 08:14 PM

Nice find, Yakob!

I have always loved the shape of Rics - and that is an awesome color!

Yakob · #3 01-25-2013, 08:40 PM

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Nice find, Yakob!

I have always loved the shape of Rics - and that is an awesome color!

My dream is to one day own a Ric in Mapleglo... As well as a blue one with a rip-cord, a la FLCL.

hibachiduck · #4 01-25-2013, 08:45 PM

Ah, JMac sold his Rickenfaker? Awesome! It's a good bass. Your purchase probably helped fund another one of his crazy projects (my favorite of which would be this: Jmac's Nidacore/Composite- 215 cab build thread which I happened to buy off of him last year and I can't imagine ever needing a new bass cab

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Yakob · #5 01-25-2013, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by hibachiduck

Ah, Jerimy sold his Rickenfaker? Awesome! It's a good bass. Your purchase probably helped fund another one of his crazy projects (my favorite of which would be this: Jmac's Nidacore/Composite- 215 cab build thread which I happened to buy off of him last year and I can't imagine ever needing a new bass cab

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Yeah. He hooked it up with some fresh strings and a set-up before sending it my way. I'm super stoked to have it.

hibachiduck · #6 01-25-2013, 09:26 PM

Sounds like him. He's a great guy.

FatherG · #7 01-25-2013, 09:36 PM

The one on the left is a Dillion - the one on the right I'm in the middle of building.

Yakob · #8 01-25-2013, 11:29 PM

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The one on the left is a Dillion - the one on the right I'm in the middle of building.

Nice! I was considering for a while making a Rickenbacker-style body, but bolt-on, with a Fender J-Bass neck, but I honestly don't have the money or technical skill.

JMac4strngr · #9 01-26-2013, 07:52 AM

This is one cool bass. It actually has some cool things about it that are different from a real Ric, that I really loved (upper binding that wouldn't cut a hole in Your forearm, and a wide but extremely "fast" feeling neck). Enjoy!

FatherG · #10 01-26-2013, 10:39 AM

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Nice! I was considering for a while making a Rickenbacker-style body, but bolt-on, with a Fender J-Bass neck, but I honestly don't have the money or technical skill.

The walnut bass is actually a bolt on too. The neck and electronics are all from an Ibanez SRX200 ( I believe that was the model number ) bass with active pickups. I modified the headstock a bit and made the TRC out of a piece of spanish cedar off an old cigar box - trimming it to fit around the tuners.

I picked up the bass cheap ($30) on Craigslist - it was supposedly dead, but was simply needed to be re-wired.

FatherG · #11 01-26-2013, 06:50 PM

BTW - who made yours?

Yakob · #12 01-26-2013, 06:58 PM

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BTW - who made yours?

Mine is of the newer line of Rockinbetters. Tokai imports them (to Europe), but beyond that, no clue.

And this is a mockup of what my hypothetical bolt-on Rickenbacker would look like:

Just throw in some mini-buckers in place of the standard Rick PUPs. (along the lines of the lawsuit Ricks from the 70s).

FatherG · #13 01-26-2013, 09:59 PM

Mine will actually cost me about $125 in parts (new strings, some drill bits, knobs, bone for the new lefty nut and other stuff). I was lucky enough to be given the piece of walnut that I paid a cabinet-maker $20 to plane down to the thickness I needed.

If you have a bud with a shop, you should give building a try. I do have woodworking and guitar refinishing experience, but the WalnutBacker is the first body I've ever made from scratch.

Yakob · #14 01-27-2013, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by FatherG

Mine will actually cost me about $125 in parts (new strings, some drill bits, knobs, bone for the new lefty nut and other stuff). I was lucky enough to be given the piece of walnut that I paid a cabinet-maker $20 to plane down to the thickness I needed.

If you have a bud with a shop, you should give building a try. I do have woodworking and guitar refinishing experience, but the WalnutBacker is the first body I've ever made from scratch.

I'm good at the wiring aspect of it. I could probably even cut out the body properly (I do have some experience). But as soon as you get to things that need real precision on a smaller scale (bridge, neck pocket, pickup routes), that's when I'd find someone to help out