What are your thoughts on this 4005?

325_fan · Post by **325_fan** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:12 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/RICKENBACKER-1966-4005-4-STRING-BASS-LOOK_W0QQitemZ260118196019QQihZ016QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It's definately been played. By the amount it will fetch, it should send a message to Rickenbacker that says there's a market for this model. Maybe Rickenbacker can make this one the very first Asian reissue like Hofner did with the 500/1?

8mileshigh · Post by **8mileshigh** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:49 am

Check out the thread in For Sale....................

4005WB on Ebay

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:05 am

Rickenbacker will make Asian reissues the day I manufacture relics.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:11 am

Darn! I guess that 1932 Richenbacher Spanish guitar is out of the question now ....... and to think I had my heart set on one of those Ampeggy Richenbacher upright thingies too

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:12 am

I wrote the seller asking what was up with that leather thingy and if it was bolted to the body. He promised to send me more pictures. That answers it, I guess!

8mileshigh · Post by **8mileshigh** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:43 am

Paul.......you're going to start making relics too!?!

8mileshigh · Post by **8mileshigh** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:44 am

I'd only get my Scratch X out and make 'em look like new again!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:02 am

No. No. NONONoNONONo.

Nope.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Thu May 17, 2007 1:35 pm

Was that a no, then?

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:35 am

It'll be easy money, Paul!

We'll send you our Ricks, you drop them, slide them down your driveway, send them back with a certificate, and we'll sell them for more.

beacon · Post by **beacon** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:48 am

I offered to assist the F****r Custom Shop. My proposal to them was that they send me half a dozen new CS basses and then I would play the daylights out of them and send them back when they were relics...then we would start over again. Never heard back from them.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:02 am

Laugh all you want but the Fender Custom Shop can't make enough of them.

The idea is to buy an instrument that immediately feels like home yet without someone else's gunk on it. I like the idea (although I don't own one - my old Fender basses were "relic'ed" the old fashioned way - being played).

Have you ever played a CS "Relic" guitar? The guitarist I play with has a "Closet Classic" Strat from the first year of production of the Time Machine series, it's an awesome guitar.

And Rickenbacker are already doing artificially aged finishes (AFG)...

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:14 am

Ilan, I like the idea also. One gets a worn in instrument with new frets and a straight neck. There are a few thinks I do to a new Fender bass to make it feel like I had it for a while like rub the back of the neck with Scotchbrite to get a very well played in feel. There is no sticking when things get a bit sweaty

beacon · Post by **beacon** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:13 am

Actually I own a "Custom Classic"...being relic'ed by me. Ilan's statement about not being able to make enough is true. I waited almost months for it.

beacon · Post by **beacon** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:14 am

That would be "12 months" {:^)