Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Thank you all for the replies. I was forwarded here from Talkbass. The seller was asking $1000 for it. My intentions were only to play it for a while then resell if for whatever I negotiated the owner down to. None of my local music stores carry Rics so I just wanted to try one out for a while then ...

I'll really new to Rickenbackers but came across what the seller described to be a 1976 4001 that I'm thinking about going to check out. I'm not really sure what to look for to authenticate that it's not a copy. Other than the serial number on the input jack and checking under the truss rod cover ...