Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Thanks for the advice, gentlemen. I will proceed with caution.

Mark,
I have a 4001CS that has some strange discolorations, presumably from a hanging rack. just below the headstock wings, above the nut, there are two orangish stains (one at the top of the neck as you face it and one at the bottom, too).there also is a finish crack across the back of the ...

MARK:
I finally finished my 4001S refinishing job (has the Chris Squire colors, with the exception of rosewood fretboard and headstock wings), and I am now going to glue a new nut onto the fretboard. It's one of the white RIC nuts (forgot the composition..some kind of plastic, I'm sure. What glue ...

Thanks very much, John. I have attempted the maneuver outlined my Mark with some success. The neck seemed to move through a preferred (quasi-normal to the fretboard surface) angle, leaving the G-string side still a bit flatter. Some relief came into the E side, however.

Thanks for the suggestion ...

Now THAT'S the kind of solution I like!! The ol' "hit it with a hammer" approach! I will definitely try this. I was thinking of a "forced curvature method" of SOME sort. This is a really straight forward approach, which I appreciate. Hell.......this will be fun for the whole family. I know what my ...

Mark the MD:

I just bought a CS on ebay that apparently has been around the block a few times. It sounds great, but the backbow in the neck, particularly on the g-string side, is like nothing I've seen. With only a tiny bit of tension on the trussrods, the seventh/12th fret relief measures (with ...