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£15000 for this??

#21
Ironbar said:
What's a quid?
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Yeah, I've always wondered too... if that's an actual denomination of currency or slang, as in dollar = buck.

also curious; Pence? Spot?

(might be useful information if I ever get to visit the home-folks in merry old Huncote, Leichester... we've been gone about 400 years)
 
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Wow. You could buy just about every current production model Ric bass in several colors for that price.

The collectable market in guitars and amps is mystifying sometimes. I saw an article about a Dumble Overdrive Special amp and cab for sale at Gruhn Guitars a couple years ago and the price was..................$110,000.

For an amp and a 2 x 12" six string electric guitar rig? Surely, you jest. Then I heard they actually fetch that sometimes. Amazing.
 
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#28
They will never get that price right now. The market is flooded with used instruments right now. I believe Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson are in the process of liquidating their extensive collections as well, so its a buyers market.
 
#29
Novv said:
Selling it for 25k CAD and showing it off on herringbone and a laundry hamper. I expected something a little classier for that price.
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That was my first thought. $28,000 Aussie dollars and they rest the binding and the face of it on rough concrete pavers without a sheet or something else to protect the finish? You gotta be kidding!
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Pickup placement looks fine to me. :thumbsup:

Mine got played and seen fairly often at gigs ranging from small college dive bars to big festivals, and I have a bunch of recordings I have made with it.

Mine sounded like a great Rickenbacker should sound IME, not at all like a typical, tubby hollowbody bass. BTW, it is a true hollowbody, not a semi-hollow.

As mentioned above, I have many recordings with the 4005WB I owned for 38 years (it was the first Rickenbacker I ever bought, in 1973).

Perhaps, unfortunately, but mine was definitely gigged, and often. :bassist:
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Hey how you doing Jeff? Long time.
 
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Aside from the fact that even if I could afford one, I would be afraid to take a 4005 out of the house now, I'm just not with the 4005 sounds I've heard to date. Call it tonal incompatibility.
This made me reluctantly remove the 4005 from my list of Grail basses (I have all the others.)

I've always loved the look though. But I think it would be better in my case to get an Italia 4005-ish bass and modify it.
 
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Ive owned 2 of these one was stolen in NYC in 1976 and recovered by me 10 years later in trashed condition in a music store in Berkely Calif,the other one was one of the last if not the last 4005 to ever roll off the line in 1982 .I paid $850 for it new with case took six months to get ,was built to order ,sold it to a friend who sold it years later ... .it was black with red dot markers on the side the older ones used guitar pickups with six pole magnets , the later ones not ,the tonal difference particularly on the older ones was noticeable lots of really nice warm overtones that the 4001 didnt do....also on the 4005 they kept the older rick neck profile(pre 74 on the 4001) flat and thin all the through final production, also that the R tail piece made them a near nightmare to restring
 
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jd56hawk said:
In 1965, Rose-Morris inquired whether Rickenbacker might build a hollowbody bass. The company complied, but the awkward four-string 4005 never caught on. Just to drive collectors crazy, Rick also tried 6- and 8-string versions in barely more than prototype numbers. Rarely seen, even more rarely heard, but a major Rickenbacker collectible. The standard 4005 of that era goes for $5,000 to $6,500, while the 6-string version goes for $6,500 to $7,500.

Of course, the reverb price sounds just as ridiculous as 20 quid.
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I remember recently seeing a LEFT-HANDED late 1960's 4005 six-string bass for sale @ reverb - unicorn level in rarity. Most likely the only one in existence, priced accordingly (read:ridiculous price).
 
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Jeff Scott said:
I haven't seen you around these, or other, parts in quite some time. Are you still spending time down in Peru (IIRC)?
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As much as I can, my wife is out there right now taking care of her mother, she'll be back as soon as I buy her a ticket, haha! No next month she'll be back. I spent about 5 months out there last year. Only problem for me is gigs are far and few between for me (unless i want to play salsa).
 

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