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teeder wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:13 pm Thanks!
Ya, this one has the best of the best for V63 features, minus the real HS, maybe.

I know where you can get a real HS PU, but my friend will be pretty mad at me if I, oh, never mind.

If I didn't have my V63, I'd probably get one. Glad to read you still have yours; I thought you had sold it. Is it the MG from yonder year? Jeff---MG-4001V63-.jpg That one has moved on (twice!). I have a '90 FG qdxcv5iccylt19b262ph.jpg I know that John Allgaier had the MG one for a while. Your curr...

53167223341_5104af9e55_o.jpegI purchased 2 new Rics end of 2023, an Autumnglo 4003 checkered binding satin finish, the neck profile is a flat D shape and is so skinny, the best Rickenbacker I have owned for playability, the satin fretboard and rear of the neck are incredible, sounds fantastic, was ...

teeder wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:24 amIf I didn't have my V63, I'd probably get one.

Glad to read you still have yours; I thought you had sold it. Is it the MG from yonder year?

It's amazing how instruments that seem to be nearly identical can be so different. Truth! The neck pickup is clear and blooming... Those older toasters are amazing sounding. :D If I start playing out again it's gonna be fretless with a backup security blanket fretted for the first couple gigs... Oh...

4005s_2385_med .jpg Probably a silly question, but what's up with the guard on the bass 2nd from the left? That was my bass - as I recall, there was a crack running between the pickups and the large pickguard was covering it up. Note that in the photo, it is also fretless. Dale fixed it up and it w...

teeder wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:58 pm

jps wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:51 pm 4005s_2385_med .jpg

Probably a silly question, but what's up with the guard on the bass 2nd from the left?

I don't know; most likely something that owner wanted for whatever reason, or he had gotten the bass already with that pickguard on it.

"The pickups are in the less than ideal space, and the pickguard looks awkward. . . ." Wow. Complaints already. Like, knock off with the negative waves, man. Some people have been clamoring for the return of this model. Probably not many, but let's allow them their opportunity to be satis...

Those look great.

... The new tuners are chrome vs the nickle of the originals. I’ll see if some muriatic acid will take the chrome off and closer match the nickle. ... Not sure, but you might need an oxidizing acid (sulfuric or nitric) to remove it ... "Damn it Jim, I'm an organic chemist, not an inorganic che...

WillyWonka wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:57 pm

chrisdski wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:48 pm That’s great that Ben did that. John responded to a request I made for a part for some bass or other I had. How many CEOs would do that for you?

I had a very pleasant exchange, I think on facebook with John before he retired. Class act.

My experiences too.

Nah, that's exactly what RIC does on replacement jack plates.

She's active in the register. I listed the serial as 0000, since there wasn't one... https://www.rickresource.com/register/viewitem.php?id=74137&bl=%2Fregister%2Findex.php%3Fsearch%3Dtrue%26mine%3Dtrue May I suggest you change the 0000 to XXXX which is how RIC would do it on a jack plate. I jus...

WillyWonka wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:07 am She's active in the register.

I listed the serial as 0000, since there wasn't one...

https://www.rickresource.com/register/v ... ine%3Dtrue

May I suggest you change the 0000 to XXXX which is how RIC would do it on a jack plate.