Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Here's a dumb question, but how can I tell if my bass is registered? I haven't visited this forum for a long time, and I *think* I registered my 4001 a few years back.
I don't see any links on the Registration page for checking registration status.

Anyone know of a competent bass repairperson
for a '77 4001 in the DC/MD/VA area -- e.g., one who could test my pickups?

Regrding Squire getting tired of playing Ricks -- on last year's tour (the non-symphonic one) he played nothing *but* his trusty main Rick 4001 , for the whole set. But while being mainly a Rick man, he's been 'promiscuous' in his choice of basses for much of his career. He used a Fender J-bass for ...

I'm the (now) happy owner of a blonde 4001 I bought new back in 1977 (serial# QD 1575, April 1977 manufacture) from one of the 48th St. music shops in NYC. At the time it was not clear to me that relatively few guitar shops have clue one about working on Rick basses, but I was to learn this painful ...