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I didn't get a real good look at it on my small screen. Sorry

sloop_john_b wrote:Looks like an electric sitar to me...

He has a sitar sound but it looks like a Ric to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sV2RUm1jgw Paint it Black

jps wrote:My God, your avatar is full of dots, Kaia! Where have I heard that, before?

Yes can you see how that small difference could be a real head scratcher?

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doctorwho wrote:It would be tough for these dots to move ...

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Are they bolted on or what? NIce color, though

You must really be into dots. Dots Nuts.

Happy New Year!~~~ to everyone at the RR

:twisted: So I got my new 4003fl BB, and it took me a few minutes to realize that the dots had moved, rather than that I had gone insane. I held it up to my to my 2005 4003 and, sure enough, the dots are now where the frets would go, instead of where the fingerboard dots are. :evil:
So now, they ...

Here is a 4001FL with the black binding. This one is a 1976, I think, and I got it from a kid on Craigslist

I am with you on the unadorned fingerboard. My upright has nothing and works fine. :roll:
Maybe the most practical thing to do is to change the one bass that is off, to the new dot pattern. Is it really true then that this was a mistake at Rickenbacker? If so, that seems odd for a company like them ...

Hmm, i guess not all the dots have moved! I take it only the side dots are in the correct position, with the fingerboard dots still in the place they would be with frets on the neck?
the fingerboard dots are the same on all of them, but the side dots are different. I have no idea where the CORRECT ...

:twisted: So I got my new 4003fl BB, and it took me a few minutes to realize that the dots had moved, rather than that I had gone insane. I held it up to my to my 2005 4003 and, sure enough, the dots are now where the frets would go, instead of where the fingerboard dots are. :evil:
So now, they ...

:twisted: So I got my new 4003fl BB, and it took me a few minutes to realize that the dots had moved, rather than that I had gone insane. I held it up to my to my 2005 4003 and, sure enough, the dots are now where the frets would go, instead of where the fingerboard dots are. :evil:
So now, they ...

Aw heck, I'll take 'em and pay the shipping!
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm still pretty new to fretless, and mine's a 2008 so the dots are where the frets would be, but I find I really don't look at them much at all. Maybe if moving a big jump up or down the neck. I guess I'm just so used to the scale ...

I read the thread title and thought.........how can dots move? Then I realised you just have too many fretless basses. I'll also take one off your hands if it really is a problem. :mrgreen:
I even forgot one, I have FOUR fretless rics and one with frets.

OK so you guys are saying the dots on ...

:twisted: So I got my new 4003fl BB, and it took me a few minutes to realize that the dots had moved, rather than that I had gone insane. I held it up to my to my 2005 4003 and, sure enough, the dots are now where the frets would go, instead of where the fingerboard dots are. :evil:
So now, they ...