nice collection..which Ricky do you prefer, the 4001 or the 4003?
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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
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That tiny bass is a Samick - Greg Bennett design. The model name is "Corsair". The thing is actually shorter than a Strat. I bought a set of Roto Sound, short scales and had to cut quite a bit off of each string. All the hardware is original size. I took it to a jam/party one night and proclaimed; 'I'm just going to play a little bass tonight' I found it at Music Go Round for $100. Couldn't resist.
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The Rick on the right is a model 4000 - April 1968. That is the bass I use the most. Unfortunately there isn't much about it that's original. It had an active P-style pup in it when I bought it, which meant he had put extra routing in the body and extra holes in the pickguard. I had a guard made for it and bought a Rick re-issue Horseshoe pup for it. The tailpiece is from circa 1975 - I still have the original tailpiece, but the bridge cracked in two. Oh and it started life as a fireglo.
The 4003 was made in Sept 1987. As you can see in the group pic I had a full length guard made for it. I like the look of a full length.
The 4003 was made in Sept 1987. As you can see in the group pic I had a full length guard made for it. I like the look of a full length.
Props for rehabing a classic piece that some idiot near destroyed. "Can't fix stupid".
Both impressive basses. Congrats.
I bet that Samick would look pretty funny in front of that amp.
Picked this up today. Dropped off on consignment only yesterday. 1978.
Yeah. I have since gotten rid of that amp and cabs. 61 years old, I don't lug those heavy things too well.
Magnificent classic- yeah, I love the vintage icons. That's one that wrote the book.
Visit the Musicman forum; They'll love your '78. Congrats.
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The more basses, the better. One can never have enough basses. I have a 70 year old bird's eye maple desk that I don't have room for. I've been keeping it for sentimental reasons. then one day I said, this would make a heck of a body.
Thanks Mike !
I went down to look at a sea foam green classic and really wanted a rosewood neck. But he said he had another, and there it is. !
Couldn't leave the store without it.
Definitely an old classic. Nice catch. Sometimes the unexpected finds turn out to be the best ones. Back around 1975 I put a fireglo 4001 in lay-away. When I went in with he final payment they couldn't find the case for it. The salesman said "we just got a new Rick in today. I'll just grab that case for you" When he opened the case there was a burgandyglo. The fireglo was left behind and burgandyglo went home with me. I sold it a few years later. Still kicking myself for that.
Love that bass! Would really like to feel that neck. How does it compare to other Rick necks you’ve tried?
The GT-1B isn't on the floor because of the infant in the house. She's a button pusher.
It is! It's my Apostate body style. It has passive EMG humbuckers, passive controls, 34" scale, and .041-.136 Kalium strings, spaced 19mm at the bridge. The body is Peruvian walnut and Honduran mahogany, and the neck is a 5 piece Hard maple and Peruvian walnut lamination with an Indian rosewood fingerboard.
Thanks. It's my favorite. I've left it home before and just taken the 4003 to a gig. When I did that one time the soundman asked me "what's wrong with the other Rick, why didn't you bring it?"
Very nice. It was somewhere in 1972 when Rickenbacker stopped making the 4000's with the neck through. I've talked to a couple of guys who worked there at the time (in another forum) and they didn't know why that decision was made. The 4001S basses made in that time period were also set-neck models.
