The 420 Club...errr...The Rickenbacker 4003AC Club of Course!

I've owned 2, sold them both, and now want again, i have a problem

 

Been GAS'ing for an AC for a while now. How do you like yours? Is there much distinction between the two pickups, or do they sound fairly similar? And do you know if a Nordenbocker would fit in the neck pup slot?

 

Here one in Luxembourg.
I am so green , I love the green inlays!
Very nice bass, much more vesatile than the original 4003. I tuned it in C standard with Ernie Ball Cobalt flat (130/100/75/55), it works well I just had to file the nut.
I removed and put back the pickup cover several times, at the end it feels more confortable with the original.



The problem was the terrible finishing of the neck. I bought it new it in November 2019. And I already owned a 4003 without any issue.

I got:
-one fret not fully inserted in the neck
-most fret ends too long
-neck binding poorly finished with a cutter
-trace of glue between the fretboard and the neck where the neck meet the body
-trace of polish compounds (I guess in the fret that marked the fretboard)

I had to make the neck refreted, polished and install a new neck binding by a luthier (not a guitar tech but the kind of person that actually builds instrument from scratch). It costed me few hundred euros but the results is amazing, easily better than Rickenbacker can do in its best days.

Conclusions: fantastic bass but Rick QC was out of this world with this bass.

Before repair:

trace of cutter


frets


After refret works, and new binding

 

don't let the ric peeps see that awesome fix they will ban you, lol

 

Hey OP! So this isn’t the Talkbass 420 Club?