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Hi there, I agree with Fran4001 but as the crack begin from the fretboard side, the string tension tend to hold it tight. It depends on the asking price...I changed the truss rods on two of my bases, even with glue inside the routes, i think it wouldn't be so difficult to remove them and to take off ...

Hi there, I use RH450 with RS210 and RS212 and that sounds good for my 4003.
Cheers

Well, sorry I missed the preview button...

So, first impression : it smells real wood when opening the case !

second impression : its sounds great, very clean and bright, bridge pickup is really strong, but much more than the neck one. I will have to lower it.

Just two questions if someone ...

Hi all !
As i was surfing on the web last saturday, I saw a 4003 Walnut in a french shop. They said "delivery between 24 and 4h"...I immediatly asked "does it means you have one in stock ?" and the answer was "yes, we received one yesterday". You imagine the end of the story...The bass is now at ...

Hello, thanks for all contributions !
Baker 69, there is also a lefiy one in stock in Thomann.de ...But, unfortunatly I'm not Paul Mc Cartney !
RickyBubba, most of my guitars and basses came from EBay US as the used market here is quite poor and as long the Euro was strong.
But at this time the ...

hello, so you got one of those beauty ?
What is you apprecaiation ?
On my side even if the look is great, I'm interested by the mapple fingerboard neck.
Bye

Hi there from France,
In last november I ordered a 4003 Walnut in a big shop here in Europe. Delivery was anounced for the 3 of march. You undestand my excitation last week ! But ...No delivery and the bass is now anounced for end of june.
Does someone know if those bass are still in production and ...

Hello, I agree that powder coating would be the best solution. But spray paint give a really good looking result and all the metallic parts have the same look on the bass.
The only problem is that for some months I play with a metallic picks (dava master control) that is quite aggresive for paint ...

Hello, do you mean like that ?
It's based on a 85 4003 body bought on Ebay last year. For the chrome bezel I had one as spare part, just sanded the chrome and painted...I'm not sure it will last a long time but looks cool at the moment...
The truss rod cover is home made : from an original logo ...

With my special Thunderbacker ! Or perhaps it's a Rickenbird ...
Keep rockin guys !

Hello,
I finished to modify the nut, fill up the larger slots with a mixture of cyanoacrylate and glass powder. It's looks bad but it works.
And yes, it's really realy easier to play with reversed strings !
Hope that helps...
For your eyes only, a pics of my Thunderbacker or Rickenbird. In the field ...

Hello, thanks for your comments.
Another try with a picture, from previus swedish home...

Hi there,
I'm now the happy new owner of a 4003S/8 !
It's the first 8 strings bass I put my fingers on and my first reaction is why did they put the octave strings under the standart one ?
As the finger come obviously with an angle on the fretboard, It's necessary to press very hard in order to fret ...

Hi there,
This one has been sande too...


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Hi there, thanks all for the informations and links. I like the idea to transform a high gain 4 strings pickup to 5 strings, but that's stay quite expensive.
I finally ordered a magnet here : http://www.ricsrus.com/4000-Series.html. It's not on the parts list but he has...
It's a good address for us ...