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I felt the same about my ric after I bought it, took about 4 months to get it "Right", constant tweaking, trying different guages and brands of strings. Three years later I cant believe I thought it was ****, now its the best bass I've ever owned, took a while to bed in, but now its just perfect ...

I love my Ric 4003 the most, will NEVER get rid of it, but I also love my "62 Reissue Hoffy, a different animal altogether, both standing next to each other on stage before we go on looks awsome!

This definatly is a very good forum with great, helpfull, knowledgable and above all, Patient members, its great knowing that people here can understand ones frustration and not start biting back when you get angry with your ric. Having a Ric is like haivng a woman, you love 'em but they can be high ...

Very True Jeffrey, Very True!!!!

I agree, even though I'm having big issues with my 4003 at the moment and almost hate the thing they are magical instruments. I DO love the way they sound, feel and look. I seem to have sorted the massive neck issues that I've been suffering with but I guess time will tell.
I got my eye on a 70's ...

Yes, Heavy guage as in 105/85/65/45 ok more medium/heavy. I currently play 100/80/60/40's. They intonate perfectly, unlike the low quility(imho)Ric strings that came on the bass. They are what seems to be a softer compound stainless than what is commonly found on the like of Rotos which eat frets so ...

Hey Bob.
I think I'm just ****** off at the moment. I do love my Ric. Its beautiful, I love the tone, its comfortable and probably the best bass I could own. I'm just mad about hjow much hassle its given me. I'll see how it holds out now that I've set it up, touch wood its playing great now and the ...

Well seeing as I've got no luck getting hold of a new rod I decided to take matters into my own hands and use my own mechanical initiative. I heated up the bent rod and straightened it out about halfway between straight and how much it was bent. I then swapped the rods around and put the rod that ...

What Mark Gilbert Said.

What I dont get is on a two year old bass why are the rods like this?? Its a pretty hard steel they use for these things so surely they would have been installed like this.

Gary, I'm emailing you the pics of my Rods, cheers man, then you can all asses if the bent rod is totally outa whack!

Toadworks "Mr Squishy" or my amps compressor

Brilliant, thanks Pete.

Cheers Shawn

Hi Ted. I checked that too. If I look down the profile of the neck it is slightly more bowed that it needs to be. I've double checked to see if the neck is twisted but it looks ok. I'm pretty certain that its the Bass side Rod, when I removed it is was Heavily bowed, I mean nearly a full half circle ...