4080 Double Neck - An URGENT question please!

sashua · Post by **sashua** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:12 pm

I have a 4080 and I just removed the neck of the 6 string which was at an angle and I noticed it was purposely cut for that angle to be offset. Does anyone know if the 2 necks are meant to be parallel to one another? It looks like the offset angles are on purpose and that no modification was ever done to this bass. Obviously I don't want to straighten something that was supposed to be at an angle, probably for placement of the strings on the bridge at a guess.

Here are some pics but I don't know how to post bigger ones so they may be useless.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:13 pm

The offset is deliberate and 100% normal.

sashua · Post by **sashua** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:32 pm

That was quick! Thanks Paul.
Seems like an odd thing to do. All the other double necks I have seen from other manufacturers seem to have parallel necks. Any idea why Rickenbacker decided to tilt the 6 string neck angle? Were all Rick Double Neck guitars done this way?

Russ

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:08 pm

4001 + 480 = 4080. On the 480 Model the neck is tilted.

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:45 pm

Yes, notice the guitar pickups. The bridge pickup is sitting on top of the body while the neck pickup is buried in the pickguard, "below sea level," so to speak. Or maybe "below SEE level." Hence, the neck angle.

The 4003 has a flat profile, in contrast. That freaked me out when I got mine, too, but has not been a problem.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:50 am

It's to avoid interference between the fretting hand and the neck not being played on...the necks could be located closer together that way.

Otherwise the body would have to be wider and the knobs would be at your knees...

I have knobby knees, myself, but that's a different story...

lars · Post by **lars** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:53 am

Sergio: 4001 + 480 = 4481 !

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:28 am

They must use that "new math."

Ha!

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:28 am

Not in the Rickenbacker world...
Yeah, Dane's right. The fact that the neck on the 480 Model was tilted came in very handy on the 4080 Model.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:46 pm

The angles in question:

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:47 pm

The knobby knees in question: