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I have joined the Carlo Robelli club for the low price of $0! The other day, I was walking around my neighborhood with a friend, and we went down a street I don't usually walk on, and one house had a bunch of stuff sitting in front of it, including an electric bass! I looked very carefully for...

Hi all! I know I don't check back in often, but here's a photo of me playing my 4003W with my band Burn Together last night! The Rick always serves me well (even if I do look like I'm wondering what that smell is).

In all fairness, a lot of people don't have the owner's manual. If you go to a rehearsal space or a venue and find an amp, the owner's manual is never going to be there with it, and "Wait! I must find, download, and study the manual!" is not going to be most people's first priority. Also...

This might be it exactly. I haven't played through a Markbass much, but I remember that when I did, I scorned the VLE and VPF as "please muddy up my tone" knobs.

The output jack on my Epi Thunderbird 60's had become a little loose, so I opened up the backplate to tighten the jack (and put a little threadlocker on it for good measure). That was easy enough and no trouble. But what odd thing did I discover while I was doing this? The screws for the...

Played my 4003W at a gig last Friday! Used my Way Huge Pork Loin and a GK 1001; had a real clanky, grindy tone, which was just what I was going for.

I ran across these pictures while searching for something else. Anybody recognize this model of bass? I'm thinking a 4000, but what model exactly? It doesn't look like a "standard" 4000, if there is such a thing.

Had my best game ever of Elvira "Scared Stiff" last night. Hardly a world-beating score - I didn't even make it on the leaderboard - but it's nice when you just casually decide to play and end up having one of those strangely effortless games.

Ran across this the other day, thought it was pretty cool. Unknown player, USA mid 1960s. Imagine being the guy in the high school band who had this! From

I wanted to say thank you for giving me the confidence to do this! I've done some minor adjustments on other instruments I own, but I was a little intimidated by the Ric (dual truss rods? and it's the single most expensive instrument I own). But I read up on it, and raised the bridge a touch...

Got this '17 4003W in a trade the other day. It's noticeably lighter than my old Jetglo 4003 (which was an '05, I think) and I really like the feel of the neck. The action is super low, though. Anybody know a good tech for Rickenbacker setups in NYC?

Yes, please! It was actually listed as "used/excellent", but I would call it "used/mint", and honestly if it had been sold to me as a new instrument I wouldn't have questioned it. As you can see, the plastics are still on the pickguard and pickups, and the only marks on it are two very slight...

I already had a sunburst Thunderbird, but I always kind of craved a white one, and they seem to be one of the rarer "standard" colors, so when I had a little extra money and one popped up on the market, how could I say no? There's just something very classic about a white Tbird, IMO...

Not mine, just reposting for the community: a PJ-555 for sale for a good price, somewhat dinged up and with the usual round of hardware changes that most 555s seem to have gone through: ht tps://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2023236141372125/

My wife was a huge Kids in the Hall fan, so we've been rewatching all of the old episodes, and we actually got about halfway through the second season before I realized that the theme, "Having An Average Weekend", by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, features Thunderbird content! It's a...

Reviving this thread because I encountered a great candidate today - Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" reimagined in stoner rock style.

I like it. It gives you some added range over the usual passive tone control, I feel.

That's what I always wondered. I didn't think they were cheap back then either! I love the look of Gaye (Black) Advert with her Ric back in the day - I would have said Lemmy bought it for her, but Lemmy probably didn't have any money then either... Oh yeah - my band's played with a couple...

"The Speedies onstage at Irving Plaza in New York in 1979. The group was one of a handful that led a late-night scene populated by high school students in the late 1970s and early 1980s." Based on a little detective work, I'm 99% sure that's John Carlucci. Here's another of the photos: "The...

Not specifically Rick-related, but there's an Invalid Link Removed, and there are a bunch of Ricks in the photos, including the header photo. (And that one seems to have been modded to have a P pickup in the neck position!)

I almost got to see them in NYC last month, but other obligations interfered. In retrospect, I should probably have ditched those other obligations!

To follow up on this: I wasn't super happy with the tone (just kind of blah, and low output) so first I experimented with raising the pickups, and that helped a bit. The other day I decided to go ahead and lower the bridge to where I was more happy with the action, and you know what? That...

There is a Sears in the shopping center near my office - at least, there was in the before times. The last time I was in there was a few years, and even then this was pretty accurate.

This is one I only just ran across the other day, but once I got into it I was really fascinated. I think it took me so long to discover the bass part of this song because I grew up hearing it on crappy little radios with no bass. And as somebody who's mainly into punk, hard rock, and heavy...

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I don't even consider myself very good at this game, but the binding going all the way around the bottom, and the weird shape of the pickguard (it's way too short) are screamingly obvious tells to me.

They even come with a sticker that says "Ask me what it's like to be Well-Hung" :D

Well, you gotta be careful and make sure the hole is drilled deep enough first; you never want to try and be forcing a screw through undrilled wood. And I am a big fan of using a bit of beeswax on screws going into wood too. But that's the same advice I have for every project!

If you ever have problems with too-small strap buttons, or screws pulling out, I highly recommend Well-Hung Pro-Pins. No affiliation, just a happy customer. I use them on everything I build or have to retrofit. They ain't going nowhere once they're installed. Seen here with some lesser...

Sorry, I meant "more than one model 4003", not "the model known as 4003s". Is there any specific advice on the bridge?

I joined the club the other day! 4003, September 2005. I'd like to thank all the TB'ers who gave me excellent advice on Rick shopping. This one's in great shape, and looks like it's lived a pretty easy life; it even came with the original paperwork! Is there a recommended setup guide for...

Saw them at Brooklyn Steel a few weeks back. They put on a hell of a show, and I think they're one of the best new bands out there, and proof that rock isn't dead!

LOVE this one! It's a bit of a mystery to me why they were never a bigger thing.

Damn, you've got a good eye. I went and looked at a whole bunch more pictures, and yeah, the frets look slightly different from most others out there. It wouldn't be terribly surprising for a 40-odd-year-old instrument with a lot of use to be refretted, of course.

Let's go around the world!

Man, there is just so much good stuff here I don't know there's a lot left for me to post! But I'll throw out a few new and old:

That's a good point, and something I definitely want to examine more. I will say, though, that from looking through a whole pile of pictures of other people's Ricks, that the bridge on the same instrument can seem to be in different places depending on angle and focal length of the photo, which...

I don't think it is - it looks like it might be a reflection or something - but definitely something I will check when I get to see it in person.

The seller's agreed to $1900. Good point about the truss rod/fingerboard!