Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Mine arrives by mail tomorrow. Was scheduled for monday so i am happy!

Check out some of the online retail sites.

Willcuttguitars for example.

Very nice! Good to keep it in the family.

Was it refinished?

Anyone know when these features began to ship in the modern production rics?

I am not a fan of the cream binding.

2 piece

lumgimfong wrote:Is it a one, two, or a three piece neck?
My 2016 is a 3 piecer/5 with headstock wings.

I can tell you next week, but typical current 4003’s are two piece

I think he (Dane) made one for someone where the same jack hole could be stereo or mono. Tlak to the man. He knows what he is doing and has good ideas! The extra wiring involved with Rick-O-Sound isn't taking away any "guts or punch". However, for those that want that feature on a bass wi...

I just bought one of these. Pretty excited as it checks off all my favourite features. Mono jack. Just learned this now. Not a deal breaker as lots of other bases run fine mono… but i do run a biamp setup, so it is too bad. Mind you modern effects pedals including my darkglass adam split signals to ...

The rickysounds truss rods were great. Oem rods are primitive in comparison. The aluminum block is also camfered to stop the rods from riding up on it. The only issue was that i had to file down the washers cause they were too large to let me put my truss rod cover on.

I also like that the 4005xc is short scale. Long scale would never balance… and i want variety from my 4001/3.

And i like the body. Unique. The original 4005 is just 110% not my thing… where is the 330 is unique and weird and cool. I cant wait to shred it!

How were the pre and post v2 bridges balancing? I know the pre v2 were prone to neck dive.

Forgive me as my 4001 has the bridge capacitor bypassed. And i dont yet have a modern ric with the toggle. When the capacitor is engaged (vintage setting), what frequencies are bypassed in the bridge pickup? (Ex: 500hz and below) The neck and bridge pickup are in parallel… and they display phase can...

When did the 4003 swap to the deeper neck cutouts? I dont mind it except that in the treble side the pickguard can cover some of the checkerboard binding in some of the special edition models.

Last week ric facebook said they were making 4005xc’s again.

Any idea how many are being produced? I had my name put on one (the last of maybe 5 fireglo that long and mequade ordered). Also wondering how quickly they pump them out… aka will i get mine in 2023?

This is a 96. Nice super thin neck. Just a bit fussy.

The bridge adjustment was the trick. All good now. I like some fret buzz when i dig in. The A needs to go up slightly more.

My neck ruler just arrived today so it will be fun to measure it.