Looking for a member from a while back

[learning_curve]

Hery Guy's have not been in here for some time. Sadly sold the Ricks I had including the 5 string conversion I made long ago. Have been doing an acoustic solo thing for fun and profit but now I find I am involved in a prog rock project with some great musicians again an our opening song is Los Endos. I get to do my Peter Gabriel and Collins vocals again. Some Floyd and some Rush as well. Very exciting! I have a Hamer Artist for an electric and it is good guitar but I need to go back to Rickenbacker and I figure since I used to have a double neck I would like to try and find another. I have a need to switch from guitar to bass a lot so........I would love to replace my 4080 in any color. I have seen the White one but I thought I would try and contact the guy who bought mine. I am embarrassed to say I do not remember his name (from Penn). but I am sure someone in here must know. He must have five or six of these double necks now. Mine was Azureglo Blue but at that time he had one in White, Black and Burgandy and then mine in Blue. Anyone??
I am hoping I can buy one again and make a deal to the seller that if I ever sell it I will offer it back to the seller for the same price I bought it for.

Thanks for any help. Randy Decker Northville NY
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[aceonbass]

Hay Randy, long time no see. I'll bet Dave Pascoe's your man. Only person I know of that fits the description of owning several RIC doublenecks.

[rickfan60]

Hi Randy! Yeah, Dave Pascoe is the guy but he is more of a buyer than a seller when it comes to 4080's I have his email address somewhere....

[libratune]

Hi Randy! Yeah, Dave Pascoe is the guy but he is more of a buyer than a seller when it comes to 4080's I have his email address somewhere....

Here's Dave's profile with PM link:

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1617

[learning_curve]

That's it Thanks guy's! Dave's collection is really something. Nice guy too, now I have to see if I can talk him inot letting one of those monsters go a for a while.
Lesson learned here gentlemen.................Never Ever sell something that is not easily replaced. Money is Money but instruments are precious.

Randy

[rickfan60]

That'll be tough. Dave really likes his double necks.

[jaymi]

there's an azure 4080 at www.rumbleseatmusic.com

[libratune]

there's an azure 4080 at http://www.rumbleseatmusic.com

Where? I looked in Rick guitars and the Basses categories, couldn't find it.

[aceonbass]

Hey Randy...One of the reasons double neck Ricks are so expensive(always north of $5000) is their collectability. Do what I did and have one made. It can be done for at least $1000 dollars less, including the new custom made case you'll need. You can even get a few bucks back for the two old cases you won't need. Of course by made, I mean fabbed up between two Ricks of your choice. That way, you can put the 12 string on top the way Rutherford did, which is easier than playing the 12 string on the bottom the way RIC did.

[learning_curve]

Never questioned the prices, Mine went for $5,000 and that was five years ago now. When I thought of the double neck I did actually think about yours in California. IDane it is good to here from you again............... Your right, I could actually use the guitar neck on top as the leads are extended and I don't want to stretch for five minutes at a rip.

OK if I take this advice and go this route.......next best question is..?? Is there anyone in here who has a rick bass and guitar solid bodies that have some finish or body damage they would sell to guy who wants to build one of these monsters?

What rick 6 string has the wider neck? That might be my first choice for a guitar........

I think I will go with the 6 string and not the 12 for the lead work. as for the bass whatever I can find 4001 or 4003 damaged on the high side would be nice but I will consider anything. Dane do you have anything around anymore?? I sold so much Rick equipment I had most of every thing I would have needed a while ago. Someone help a guy out here will ya I am ding this because of the Band I just landed in after looking for many years an I would love to play this music again and I do not want to be limited by my equipment this time around.

And Dane could I impose on you to help me with some good photo's or whatever information source you used to make that copy of Rutherfords. ?

Looks like I am back in the Rickenbacker realm. Nothing like it.

[jps]

Randy, this will get real close:

http://www.williamyoungguitars.com/ruth ... leneck.htm

[aceonbass]

Randy, I sent you a PM answering most of these questions. Rutherfords approach was good in that the guitar was on top, but he made the distance between the necks further to facilitate two separate sets of controls. Since he's so tall, this works well for him, but I like RIC's setup with one set of controls on the bottom like a 4080 and th enecks closer together.The upper half of the bass body should be attached to guitar on top and reshaped a bit. The longer bass horn will make this instrument balance much better.

[rickfan60]

One set of controls limits the flexibility 4080 IMHO. The 5th knob helps a bit though. You can change the tone to some degree with a twist of a singe knob but it falls well short of giving you all the tones the instrument is capable of producing. The close neck spacing is a negative for me too. I tend to play with my thumb on the back of the neck and my wrist downward perpendicular to the fingerboard. The guitar neck prevents me from doing that and I am forced to wrap my thumb over the top of the neck to get my wrist in between the necks. That and the fact the whole package weighs in at about 14lbs makes the 4080 more of a curiosity than a practical gigging instrument. This is to say nothing of the bass-on-top design. I think Rutherford had the right idea.

[aceonbass]

On my doubleneck I had each neck and pair of pickups wired like a 4004 with a selector switch, master volume and tone and a neck selector switch that made it possible to have either or both necks. The instrument is stereo, splitting the necks to different channels through a standard Rick-O-Sound jack with the usual mono default. It's seems much more versatile than the way a 4080 is wired.

[jps]

I think Rutherford had the right idea.

It was very interesting and confounding for me when I first saw the 4080 and 4080/12 in the RIC catalog, as previous to that I had seen Michael several times with his doubleneck Rick; I couldn't understand why the factory instruments were the reverse from what I had first seen, not knowing at that time that Mike's was custom built. I agree that having the bass on the bottom makes a lot more sense.