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1966 Rickenbacker 4005

#23
Here's the '67 (GE2415) that used to be mine...sold it to Elliot at Rumble Seat for too little money in 2003. (Where you got your's?) I think he must have traded it to Chicago Music Exchange. It's the coolest looking bass I've ever owned, but I had no use for the tone. Oh, if I had all the money in the world, I'd hang it over my bedroom wall, wake up and see it and I'd be happy(er).
 
#26
Yes i purchased the bass from Rumble Street who was selling an LA producer's collection. Great experience and very professional folks to work with. I worked with Adric who i can highly recommend you contact if you are looking for a rare guitar in excellent condition.
 
#28
jpm122451 said:
Yes i purchased the bass from Rumble Street who was selling an LA producer's collection. Great experience and very professional folks to work with. I worked with Adric who i can highly recommend you contact if you are looking for a rare guitar in excellent condition.
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I get to Ithaca once a year. Great store!
 
#29
msb said:
...Jeff , was that your double bound black 4005 ?
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Yes, the Jetglo February 1967 4005WB. When I bought it, traded for it really, I was on the search for a 4001 but this is what came up so I got it. I had no idea what it was for a while (way pre-internet). I had a late '60s Jazz Bass that I bought for $175 and did a straight trade about a year or so later for the 4005WB.
 
#30
KPO2000 said:
Here's the '67 (GE2415) that used to be mine... It's the coolest looking bass I've ever owned, but I had no use for the tone.
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Unfortunately (in my opinion) way too many Rickenbackers were traded or modded because of that little .0047 cap...people were switching out the pups ...Like mine, (which someone had enlarged the pickup routs to add a couple of Bill Lawrence pups to probably try and improve the plink - plunk sound of the bass and make it bigger/boomier like a Gibson or Fender.)

Back in da day, hardley anyone (including guitar techs/luthiers) knew that all you had to do was bypass or remove the .0047 cap to get a really nice..real-world bass sound out of your rick! With the caps removed or bypassed, both of my Ricks can hold their own against my Fenders, Gibsons, Reverend ect.....obviously, this is only MY opinion and I know that others love em the way they came from the factory...but try the bypass.;)
 
#31
I still play a Ric and have owned many--have an '89 4001v63 that I will never sell--and would love to have a 4005 again...but cap or no cap, the tone was not happenin' in my 4005.

dminer said:
Unfortunately (in my opinion) way too many Rickenbackers were traded or modded because of that little .0047 cap...people were switching out the pups ...Like mine, (which someone had enlarged the pickup routs to add a couple of Bill Lawrence pups to probably try and improve the plink - plunk sound of the bass and make it bigger/boomier like a Gibson or Fender.)

Back in da day, hardley anyone (including guitar techs/luthiers) knew that all you had to do was bypass or remove the .0047 cap to get a really nice..real-world bass sound out of your rick! With the caps removed or bypassed, both of my Ricks can hold their own against my Fenders, Gibsons, Reverend ect.....obviously, this is only MY opinion and I know that others love em the way they came from the factory...but try the bypass.;)
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#32
KPO2000 said:
I still play a Ric and have owned many--have an '89 4001v63 that I will never sell--and would love to have a 4005 again...but cap or no cap, the tone was not happenin' in my 4005.
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The tone was very much happening in my former 4005, the recordings I have from the early 80's are as good as anything from Squire/Lee, tone-wise. :cool:

I put the .0047µF cap in my 4001V63 as the magnetic horseshoe pickup I have in the bass the and toaster combination are fantastic that way.
 
#36
Ive owned 2 of them over the years one of the 2 may have been the last one ever made in 1981 or 82 it took 7 months to get it by special order ,it was black with red fret dots on the binding and had the newer screw pickups not toasters, when a friend of mine tried to order one 3 weeks after I got it he was told they'd been discontinued months ago .. the other one was a 66 or 67 that was stolen from me in NYC in 1978 out of my car. I found the bass in a music store in Berkley Calif almost 30 years later with a severely botched repair to a cracked neck , Spoke with Rickenbacker at the time ,they were not the least bit interested in restoring it in fact they were downright a-- h---s about it ,thats when I decided never to own another Rick , cant stand companies that don't support what they build and were indignant to boot ,tbe interesting thing tonally about the 4005's were the overtones that you got with them that you didn't get with the solid body 4000's warm and fiery just like the way they look wish they'd re-issue the bass with a 5 string but the Rickenbacker toy company is to pea brained to do anything that creative
 

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