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Hello all
I have picked up a Road 440 amp (later Rickenbacker) and the effects channel is very weak.
I am looking for a schematic and a user manual if anybody can help. Even a Road 220 would probably do.
Many thanks

I only get to this bit by bit but yesterday I managed to remove the blocks in the bridge route and it’s pickup cavity.
Now looking at the bridge I have it will never cover all the route that was modified in the past for some or other bridge.
I don’t think my China Mall bridge is smaller and I will ...

Got some picks from previous owner after he stripped it. The extra 2 extra bridge mount holes aren’t there at this point.

Does anybody have a 60’s cast aluminium bridge they could 3d scan. I would like to have a go at recasting one. Even a bent one as I can manipulate in the software.
I don’t mind paying a small amount for the scan.

That's it then. Frets into the rosewood. I have bought an ebay horseshoe for it whilst I search for any original parts. Luckily I only need the horseshoe and bridge.

Just bummed that it wasn’t an original fretless but I did get the answer to my original question, although from a facebook group, that it is a RM1999.
Now should I replace the brazilian rosewood board for bubinga or just go with it realising it’s never going to be original anyway.

Thanks

So from the horses mouth as it were smashing all my false hopes.
On the other hand I have found the answer to my original thread question and it is a RM1999 shipped from the Rickenbacker factory to London on 28 February 1966.
I can now safely fit frets to it.

Hi Andi,

Thank you for providing ...

I got this from a vintage catalog http://vintage.catalogs.free.fr/rickenbacker.pdf

Says 33.5” which mine is, rosewood fingerboard which mine is and side dot markers which mine has.

I just don’t want to give up, put frets on, rerout the bridge and ruin a rare instrument

I see your point but it only mentions scale length on a 4000 FL and again on the 3 special 30” models.
If it’s the same as all the others why even mention it in the 4000 FL section of that write up.

I am getting info from this forum.

4000FL
This bass is the fretless version of 4000 model
Features: Single pickup, volume and tone controls, mono output, unbound body, dot
inlay, gold pickguard, cresting wave headstock, 33-1/2" scale, unbound rosewood
fretboard. This bass was a special order only ...

Thanks for measuring

That’s probably had more than the whole of South Africa ever had.