Stringing a 4001 bass

upstairsdave · Post by **upstairsdave** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:37 am

My first Rick bass. I have the 4001V63, not that it matters. I bought flatwounds to put on it and when i looked at the tuners I see the string actually goes in the grove on the peg and down into a hole. Would someone give me some advise ono the proper way to string a Rick bass?
Thanks, Dave

ojobob2 · Post by **ojobob2** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:55 am

yep - pull each new string taut and allow about 4 inches of string past each tuner (cut off the extra lengh)

Insert the string into the hole (right to the bottom) and kink it around the post so that the each string is on the side of the tuner next to the rickenbacker nameplate. then just hold the string taut and turn the tuner, each wrap will fall under the last one so that the string itself ends up at the bottom of about 3 wraps

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:46 pm

I always put the kink in it myself, I read somewhere that that stops the outer wrapping from being pulled more than the inner core which in turn will make a new string go dead a lot quicker, it seems to work too. Actually I think that it used to say that on the Rots package, haha!