The Rickenbacker Club Part Six

[smperry]

Continued from: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/rickenbacker-club-part-five-762090/

 

[Jaymi]

and off we go...

 

[BassGen]

I had Larry Davis (Atlanta, soon to be in Florida) redo this basket-case 4001. It's a '72 that was terribly beat up, and I bought it a couple of years ago as an on-going project. I opted for the brightest version of Azureglo, and the new tailpiece is a concession to a vintage restoration.

This one intrigues me. Is the fretboard new? The markers go side to side like the new ones. Forgive me if that is how they were done in 72.

 

[belimad]

Jaymi, I want a number too!
(Lefty 78 4001)

 

[Ric5]

This one intrigues me. Is the fretboard new? The markers go side to side like the new ones. Forgive me if that is how they were done in 72.

The basses in the 60s and early 70s have full width inlays.

 

[BassGen]

Back to this bass. It was sold to another guy who started converting it to a five-stringer, but then he sold it to a guy who was thinking about making it an eight-string (or a 10-string!), but lost interest and sold it to me. Beautiful flame on this one. It was originally equipped with gold hardware, but that went away long ago. This one is for sale (again!) if anyone is interested.

I would be interested but guessing that my wife would shoot me if I bought another Ric right now. But what the heck, PM the price to me!

 

[Ric5]

 

[BassGen]

The basses in the 60s and early 70s have full width inlays.

Thanks for the education Ric5. I did not know that. I've only had a Ric for a year and it is a 2001 so it has the narrower markers.

 

[Ric5]

When I convert a Ric to a 5er I put the extra tuner on the other side.

 

[Jaymi]

Jaymi, I want a number too!
(Lefty 78 4001)

no prob repost your pic here and I will hook you up

 

[BassGen]

When I convert a Ric to a 5er I put the extra tuner on the other side.

I should send you my JetGlo for a conversion to a 5. But I'm not sure I really want to change it.

 

[belimad]

Here we go:

 

[StereoPlayer]

nice stuff here.....I'm not sure do you have to post in the new thread(done!) to stay subbed?

 

[Jaymi]

Here we go:

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[BassGen]

nice stuff here.....I'm not sure do you have to post in the new thread(done!) to stay subbed?

You have to Sub the new thread manually using "Thread Tools" at the top of the page.

 

[RickenBoogie]

Off to a great start- I could spend hours looking at everyone else's Ric's, so many awesome looking basses. Not sure about the 5 string conversions, as to preference on which side the extra tuner goes- but I'm sure there's a reason to choose one side over the other. (?) edit to add- just went back to the last page of part 5, and saw all those gorgeous basses posted by Paul. Got me wondering, how different the 4004's sound with the neck pup backed off the neck some. Mine, (avatar) is an '08 with the neck pup right on the neck edge, and sounds "beefy". Does it lose that beef when backed off?

 

[Jaymi]

the 4004 is sooo much better when you convert it to V/V/T instead of the mini toggle.

 

[Ric5]

Also stacked knobs and single coil pickups is also a big improvement.

 

[Jaymi]

I have one other that may be coming up for sale/trade...it's a cool bass just not getting any playtime...2004

 

[Paul Boyer]

Inlays on Rick 4001/4003 have an interesting history. They started out (1962ish) with markers made from clear resin with a white paint swirled inside. This gave way to a special "Crushed Pearl" sparkly material in the mid-60s and that was used through 1972. Then they went back to a white/pearly appearance in 1973, but in late '73-74, they started cutting cavities into the fingerboard and poured clear resin with pearlescent powder mixed in. That was pretty much the standard until early 2008 when they started cutting pearlescent sheet material and gluing it into computer-cut full-width depressions in the fingerboards. That's what we get today.