Ahh....I see this bass has the revised pickguard. RIC has FINALLY gone back to the pre '97 shape.
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The Rickenbacker Club Part Twelve
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I like the walnut more every time I see it, though id still like to see one with a dark fingerboard. The new contoured walnut bodies are probably more comfortable to play, but the binding looks so much better to my eyes. Beautiful bass, congratulations. How long was the wait, order to doorstep?
There will be nothing left to complain about anymore. Might as well shut this thread down...
But wait, there's more (to it)!
More than meets the eye?
Can we hope the swimming pool routes have also been done away with?
More to the changes of the shape of the pickguard.More than meets the eye?
Can we hope the swimming pool routes have also been done away with?
It's still not on my doorstep, and doesn't ship until tomorrow. The wait will have been more than 11 months.
Yowch! I commend your patience. I have yet to see one of these on display for sale anywhere, except exhorbitant resellers on Ebay. It may be a few years before they catch up with the backlog,.
There is a local used one that looks pretty primo for $1750 which seems good when I see what the eBay resellers ask.
The front upper portion of the guard comes to more of a point than the previously radiused shape. It only took RIC 17 years to change it! According to John Hall, the routing for the neck pickup is the way it is because it needs to be for various reasons, so that's not changing.
Amara,
I ordered mine on June 12th of 2014 and it arrived February 27th, 2015, so mine took eight and a half months. It is totally worth the wait though. I wonder if the additional wait is due to you being in Canada.
The other thing that I'm curious about is whether ours were made in the same batch. (I'm speculating that they were.)
The input jack plate on mine has the number 15 on it, signifying that it was built in 2015. The first two numbers of the serial number at the bottom of the plate are 04, with means that it was built in the 4th week of the year.
In any case, I'm really excited for you, I know that I'm loving mine.
Now I have a 4003SW on order, so I'm back in waiting mode. I put half down on it on February 17th, they ordered it from Rickenbacker that day. Tomorrow I'm paying it off, so all that's left to do is wait.
(Again.)
Total BS by JH. If a 4004 can have a tight route, so can a 4003. It just needs two channels going up to get to the truss rods, and a proper well for the pup leads.
I ordered mine from Wildwood in Colorado in early May, and it's supposed to ship today. I don't think Canada had anything to do with it; they just sold out of the 2014s, and didn't get more until a month ago. (I was offered a different one then, but didn't like the look of the grain pattern, and elected to wait for the next batch.) So it could have been 10 months, rather than 11. I'm actually glad that I got one of the 2015s, since it means that I got the "new" pick guard shape.
My S/N begins with 1508, so it would have been made a month later than yours, which fits the shipping dates fairly closely.
There needs to be some breathing room for slight variations due to the pickup being mounted on the pickguard (4003) vs. directly into the body (4004) I would think.
That is one, another is there is more room between the pickguard and the edge of the body by the controls as in vintage pickguards. Kudos to John/Ben for bringing these back, they are far more aesthetically pleasing to us old farts (grumpy or not!).
