One For the Lefty History Books?

[wints]

http://cgi.ebay.com/1969-1971-Rickenbac ... 3f02a9e04a

For John S, and the southpaw bunch. This one must be special.

[leftybass]

Scott found this a few years ago and has been sitting on it until now.....Frankly I thought he'd hold onto it, but there it is on the Bay........

It is ultra-rare in any case. I'd say Peter's '71 LH 21-fretter is probably the closest to it, in terms of Rickenbacker DNA.

The peghead is the later short length-type, so I'd say the neck blank for it was cut after my '69 which has the longer style from the 60's.

[Lefty4003S8]

Ok.........NOW it's time for me to sell one of my kidneys!!!!!!!!!!

WOW, what a BEAUTIFUL bass-guitar!!!!!!!!




Lefty4003s8

[opticnerve]

This has got to be the "holy grail" of vintage lefty Ric basses...correct?

It'll be interesting to see how the auction ends. Someone here should nab it!!!

[deargdoom]

This has got to be the "holy grail" of vintage lefty Ric basses...correct?

It'll be interesting to see how the auction ends. Someone here should nab it!!!

I'd prefer to find a Lefty 4002.

[opticnerve]

This has got to be the "holy grail" of vintage lefty Ric basses...correct?

It'll be interesting to see how the auction ends. Someone here should nab it!!!

I'd prefer to find a Lefty 4002.

That would fall into the "fantasy bass" catagory Joe. I don't think that a lefty 4002 exists.

[deargdoom]

This has got to be the "holy grail" of vintage lefty Ric basses...correct?

It'll be interesting to see how the auction ends. Someone here should nab it!!!

I'd prefer to find a Lefty 4002.

That would fall into the "fantasy bass" catagory Joe. I don't think that a lefty 4002 exists.

Ahh, it's no fantasy, there was one on ebay.fr a few years ago for €4000 and I've heard of another that exists that was related on this forum. 4002s were in production for several years so it's more likely some lefties were made.

[leftybass]

This has got to be the "holy grail" of vintage lefty Ric basses...correct?

It'll be interesting to see how the auction ends. Someone here should nab it!!!

Tony: The thing about these basses is that you, me or anyone else can count the known examples on one hand, LOL...they are not too hard to keep track of, there are so few of them. Holy grail(s) fer sher....

There is Macca's 4001-S from 1964......there is also a supposed twin to his bass with a 1967 serial number---I have only heard of it's existance, never seen it.

There is my bass from 4/1969, it has mainly 1968 or earlier features (and a reissue H/S), and a single mono input jack....pre-ROS...

As far as left-handed 4001's with 60's serial numbers, the only two I have seen in 30+ years are Macca's S and this '69 that I own.



Scott's bass on ebay IMHO was made sometime after my bass for it has a shorter peghead, and started out mono but has an added hole for a ROS jack.

I have to include Peter Levett's '71 4001 LH with 21 frets for I believe it to be the only 21-fret bass that is left-handed....Unique.

So even with Peter's '71 in the mix, that is only four that are really known. Scott's bass has a '71 sn# as well per the listing.

[s4001]

Gorgeous basses.

[wints]

John's bass, with the mono, and longer head do show an earlier provenance. That is a special one man...

Tony...I spoke to a 4002 L/H owner a couple of years ago. He was a low key guy so I promised to keep it that way, but, there's certainly one out there!

[teeder]

Cool!

[wim]

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there's something about lefty 4001's that makes 'm even more sexy than the righthanded ones.

[Grey]

Why does it say he's only going to list it for sale once? Hoping noone buys it so he can hang onto it? "I tried to sell it! Honest! It just keeps coming back!"

[tamere]

amazing. beautiful.

[maplered]

This has got to be the "holy grail" of vintage lefty Ric basses...correct?

It'll be interesting to see how the auction ends. Someone here should nab it!!!

Tony: The thing about these basses is that you, me or anyone else can count the known examples on one hand, LOL...they are not too hard to keep track of, there are so few of them. Holy grail(s) fer sher....

There is Macca's 4001-S from 1964......there is also a supposed twin to his bass with a 1967 serial number---I have only heard of it's existance, never seen it.

There is my bass from 4/1969, it has mainly 1968 or earlier features (and a reissue H/S), and a single mono input jack....pre-ROS...

As far as left-handed 4001's with 60's serial numbers, the only two I have seen in 30+ years are Macca's S and this '69 that I own.



Scott's bass on ebay IMHO was made sometime after my bass for it has a shorter peghead, and started out mono but has an added hole for a ROS jack.

I have to include Peter Levett's '71 4001 LH with 21 frets for I believe it to be the only 21-fret bass that is left-handed....Unique.

So even with Peter's '71 in the mix, that is only four that are really known. Scott's bass has a '71 sn# as well per the listing.

I've seen one other, the bass player in Foreigner had a 60's 4001 w/ a horseshoe and it was left handed.

Did yours originally come w/ a horseshoe?