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Thanks Clasblas, I cant believe it came from the factory painted black.

I'll try to post mre pics ,they arev to big now and I have to resize to fit on this site. The best ones are on my android and I still dont know how to move them to my PC and organize, but I'll try. to me the only thing that could be better would be a checkerboard binding

Hey guys, Thought I'd share my '76 4001 and get your thoughts and opinions, especially on the most recent set up I just finished after getting the bridge p/u rewound. First a bit of history. Back in the mid/late '80's when my son was in 3rd grade or so, I dropped him off at a friend of his to hang o...

I put a rick re-issue horse shoe p/u in my '76 4001. It lasted for about a year and for some reason needed a re-wind. the guy that does my p/u's was told I would like a bit of an over wind. Understatement.....When I got it back it measured out to be 15.60k. Low and behold, the damn thing sounds grea...

Here's a pic of the neck P/U rout in my '75 4001. If I didnt know any better I would think it was hacked, wonder what the reason for the screws could be. I,m the 2nd owner so I know nobodys been in there cept me.

My bridge and saddles were a new Rickenbacker replacement back in '88. intonation screws are countersunk phillips. Now that the bass is apart, I,m going to try and get some pan head phillips w/slightly larger heads, otherwise I'll have to resort back to remove ,adjust,install,repeat method

That looks identical to my re-issue V63 I bought in the late '80's, split shoe and all. Magnetized V. Un magnetized shoes. I,ve always wondered about that myself. what would be the benefit anyway?. Oh and also that re issue horseshoe had a resistance of 15.4k w/ 43awg wire.

Thanks for the replies, just might take you up on the offer aceonbass. I,m just looking for a low end punchy sound with clarity .And alot of the time ,it cost's me a fortune taking the trial and error route. My problem here is not totally understanding the correlation between all the components. ie;...

I have a re issue V63 that had a ******* out horse shoe bridge pick up,.I pulled it out and gave a call to my pickup guy about rewinding it, Wondering what size the wire was we both went on line and found it was 43 awg (we musta.. looked at the same site) not having that size, he ordered it and went...