NBD - 1968 Rickenbacker 4005

[Jeff Scott]

I've had a couple of Ameritage cases for my former Rick Turner Renaissance basses.

 

[claudel]

Great quality, but the one for that 4005 was >$900 over 25 years ago

Built from a tracing...

 

[mikeswals]

Since Ric has recently knocked out the occasional one off 4005V's since announcing the production ones have stopped, you might want to contact them about new case while they likey still have some.

 

[Aceonbass]

The thing to understand is that it's reverse-wired, so dialing it back towards the bridge means that you're dialing in the front pickup (and vice versa.)

+1

This “reverse” wiring of the 5th knob never made any sense to me. So when I built a new wiring harness for my 4005XC I wired it so that clockwise faded the neck pickup in instead of out. I used the last two NOS Ajax .047uF blue caps I had for it, and wired the output jacks the way Billy Sheehan’s Attitude bass is wired. Either jack is the same mono signal, but to get stereo, you have to plug in a separate mono cable for each jack. This would make it easier to use two separate wireless transmitters than one TRS cable with a splitter box at the amp end. I never use a cable anymore, even at rehearsal. But I don’t play in stereo either, but I wanted to try something different.

 

[nixdad]

This “reverse” wiring of the 5th knob never made any sense to me. So when I built a new wiring harness for my 4005XC I wired it so that clockwise faded the neck pickup in instead of out. I used the last two NOS Ajax .047uF blue caps I had for it, and wired the output jacks the way Billy Sheehan’s Attitude bass is wired. Either jack is the same mono signal, but to get stereo, you have to plug in a separate mono cable for each jack. This would make it easier to use two separate wireless transmitters than one TRS cable with a splitter box at the amp end. I never use a cable anymore, even at rehearsal. But I don’t play in stereo either, but I wanted to try something different.

That makes perfect sense, Dane!