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The Rickenbacker Club Part Nine

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PaulBoyer said:
That's one of the problems with trying used Ricks, especially older 4001 models. Not many shop techs know how to adjust the necks properly and can sometimes actually bend or break the hairpin "rods," or crack the neck, or lift the fingerboard. The correct method is quite simple, really, but completely different from a standard truss rod. If done correctly every time an adjustment is needed, even old 4001 will play just fine. But it takes just one nimrod along the way to mess it up, and then the next one is left scratching his head and concluding that Ricks are always like that. Pretty sad, really.
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Took me a while to get my '79 4001 where I wanted it. Had rounds on it for a long while and was good but put some JF344's on it once again and it's wonderful now and the low tension straightened out the neck a little more. Had to relearn the trussrod again after i got it 3 or 4 years ago, big props to Joey's Bass Notes and the RRF.
 
#162
Kenzy said:
I recall that the markers were light red in colour.
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I believe there were green ones briefly, too.
Not sure of which came first and which is more plentiful, but they only happened in '74 because RIC ran out of the regular stock briefly and used what was accessible.

Never seen either in person, nor a '74 4001 for that matter.
Ricks are fairly rare in my area.
 
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Are you talking about this one here ...

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That is a 75 or 76 4001 Azureglo. My friend Steve Cooper bought that on ebay and it came all messed up. The wiring was screwed up and the neck pickup was dead. So I rewired it with all 250k ohm pots and no .0047 capacitor and put a toaster pickup in the neck position. When I put it all together it sounded really really good ... It was a looker and a player ...
 
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Ric5 said:
Are you talking about this one here ...

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That is a 75 or 76 4001 Azureglo. My friend Steve Cooper bought that on ebay and it came all messed up. The wiring was screwed up and the neck pickup was dead. So I rewired it with all 250k ohm pots and no .0047 capacitor and put a toaster pickup in the neck position. When I put it all together it sounded really really good ... It was a looker and a player ...
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Look at all of those delicious Rics *drool*
 
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