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Thanks for the welcomes everyone, and its good to see that there are some fellow Melbournians here.

Kevin, I think it may have been your comments in another thread about slight differences between the years on the v63 that prompted my question. Tempting as each of these basses are, having only ...

Thanks Francesco, Ill give those settings a try.

Thanks for the welcoming comments guys, Im glad I finally broke cover after lurking here for so long.

Ill take your advice re the 4003 David, as I don't intend on selling either of these. I bought the 4003 about five years back to finally satisfy the ric bass craving Id held since the very early ...

Francesco, those clips youve posted are great. Clearly most of the tone is your technique but do you mind revealing the pick up/ tone / volume settings you use on that v63, and whether you use the bridge mute to get that McCartney sound?

Re rarity - even more surprising to me is that these are both in Australia where rickenbacker basses of any type are hard enough to come by, and that they come up for sale a week after I bought my 4001c64 after searching high and low for months to get a vintage reissue of either type.

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Ive just spotted two different jetglo 4001v63s for sale by different Australian online stores, one is a 91 and the other a 95. Are there any changes that occurred to the v63s between 91 and 95 that would make one more desirable than the other?

Links:

91:

http://globalvintage.com.au/shop ...

First post here for me, although I have to admit to having been a regular visitor for the last three years. I have two rics, a 1980 4003 in what I think is autumnglo (but could be walnut or something else) and a 2003 4001c64 in mapleglo. I know that they're not that easy to come by anywhere at the ...