Hi everybody

nelly · Post by **nelly** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:22 am

Just stumbled across this site whilst searchin the net for a 4003s/5 Ricky. I hadn't realised they were discontinued, shows how little info we get over here in the UK! lol. If anybody knows where to find one..................
Anyhow, interesting to see your stance on fake Ricks, keep up the good work of shopping the cloners. I have been a Rick fake victim, in my non Ricky know days I bought what I thought was the real deal only to find it was an Ibanez badged and wired up as a Rick. Cheesed off? Yes!, but I couldn't sell it to another bass player as a real cos I ain't like that! The damn thing didn't realise what hard gigging was until I found out I was cheated!! Damn you Ibanez!!!
nelly

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:32 am

Welcome Nelly. There are 4003S5's to be found out there and you may get a lead here.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:42 pm

Welcome Nelly. Check out some of Jeff Rath's posts, He's the undisputed 5-string king around here.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:24 pm

Thanks ... I am into 5 string basses these days ...

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:19 pm

These days? seems like you love five stringers everyday.Nice collection!

flyingpenguin · Post by **flyingpenguin** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:21 pm

I wish that was my couch!

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:52 pm

If it was, I would have it re-upholstered!

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:08 pm

for what he saves on decorating-he puts into 5'vers!

Cool!

nelly · Post by **nelly** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:00 am

That's just greed! I have quite a collection of Musicman stingrays myself, just decided recently to find myself a 5 string Rick 4003, unfortunately I never realised how much of a task this was gonna be!! Oh well.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:21 am

Neil,
Note that 2 of those are conversions Jeff has done, and quite well I might add. They play and sound great! I am the owner of another of his 5-string conversions, a P-bass, and it is great for those of us who like the tight string spacing and fretboards that aren't like runways!

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:29 am

For me the perfect 5 string bass is 1 1/2" to 1 3/4" at the nut and 2 3/8" to 2 1/2" at the bridge ...

The 4003s5 is 2 1/4" or 2 1/16" at the bridge and my 2030 and 4004L conversions are 2 3/8" at the bridge ...

My p-bass and jazz bass conversions are usually 2 1/2" at the bridge and 1 1/2" or 1 5/8" at the nut ...

A lot of 5 string basses are like 2" at the nut and 2 3/4" to 3" at the bridge ... this makes for a fret board that your kids could play soccer on ...

If I could get a good source for 5 pole high gain pickups and a five saddle ric bridge I could convert a bunch of 4003 basses into 5 string models ...

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:57 am

Welcome aboard, Nelly.
A 4003S/5 will come your way, rest assured.

Greed=Love.

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:24 pm

I wish that was my couch!

All those beautiful babies, and that's what he says!

jps · Post by **jps** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:56 pm

Hey, he must like the couch, there's one in every crowd!

:0)

flyingpenguin · Post by **flyingpenguin** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:10 pm

posesion is 9/10 ths of the law? my couch-my basses! heheh! Very nice collection Jeff.