WHOA......NICE!!!!!!

[incubus2432]

Excellent, unique transformation.....

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=371535

[incubus2432]

Here's a pic from the thread....

[86kubicki]

I really love the look of the headstock!

[dswp]

That is nice.

I always wanted to find a beater 4001 and install a premium wood laminate on it.

[s4001]

Ooooohhh purrrddyyy... drrroooolalalglglglg

[jwr2]

very cool ...

[gray]

Wow, that thing's crazy!
I'd have put Rick pickups in it, though.

[bassduke49]

Jeff, have you told us about that five-banger? Please do!

[cheyenne]

Me thinks Jeff is playing with the 'ole photohop again.

[cheyenne]

I'd have went with different pickups also...these are Dimarzio's right????

[jps]

It looks great but now that it has only a single truss rod in the future it may be considered a faker!

[gray]

It looks great but now that it has only a single truss rod in the future it may be considered a faker!

True. It kind of needs both truss rods.

[jwr2]

that burled 5 string is just a puotoshop fantasy ...

[rikk]

If he keeps all the documentation of the restoration, he can show it WAS a RIC.

[rickenbrother]

There is a thread about this on the RIC company forum also. Like I said there, nice work and pretty wood, but he killed it for me with those pickups. If he wanted humbuckers, he could have gone with the HB-1s and made it sort of 4004-like. I don't like pattern of fingerboard inlays either. I do like the binding on the headstock. As far as I'm concerned, he make a fake Rick out a real one by filling the dual truss rod channels and giving it a single rod, bringing down it's value along with that large route for the control cavity cover in the rear. Just my humble opinion, of course.