Should I sell a kidney and get this 4005?

gibsonlp · Post by **gibsonlp** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:23 am

Nah, I am keeping my internal organs in place.
Perhaps I don't need to have everything I want.

kiramdear · Post by **kiramdear** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:44 am

Wise man. Plus, your house is likely going to cost more than you estimate. You don't want to have to skimp on it.

berth · Post by **berth** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:53 am

gibsonlp wrote:Nah, I am keeping my internal organs in place.
Perhaps I don't need to have everything I want.

It sometime looks like getting what you want is a neverending quest.

(Though I must say I am happy with what I have and the variation I can get with it.)

What makes you want a sixties 4005 instead of the cheaper seventies?

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:23 pm

^ Yep, cheaper, that's the word I was looking for.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:39 pm

I don't know... I played the '74 4005WB JB sold to Graham and it was one really sweet bass with a wonderful neck.
http://www.rickenbacker.me.uk/www.ricke ... ls.html#88

berth · Post by **berth** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:59 pm

johnallg wrote:I don't know... I played the '74 4005WB JB sold to Graham and it was one really sweet bass with a wonderful neck.
http://www.rickenbacker.me.uk/www.ricke ... ls.html#88

I do know. Since the frets of my '81 4005 have been leveled I love it. And since '81 is almost the last production year of the 4005 mine must be among the most best with the least flaws.

gibsonlp · Post by **gibsonlp** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:07 am

I am just a sucker for checkerboard, crushed pearl inlays and toasters...

Danotron · Post by **Danotron** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:15 am

gibsonlp wrote:I am just a sucker for checkerboard, crushed pearl inlays and toasters...

+1, this theory can be applied to guitars as well

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:52 am

johnallg wrote:I don't know... I played the '74 4005WB JB sold to Graham and it was one really sweet bass with a wonderful neck.
http://www.rickenbacker.me.uk/www.ricke ... ls.html#88

I remember when this bass hit Ebay. I literally had my finger on the "buy it now" button, and my wife walked into the room and distracted me.

JB got real lucky with that one.

berth · Post by **berth** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:46 pm

gibsonlp wrote:I am just a sucker for checkerboard, crushed pearl inlays and toasters...

That, I can understand.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:20 pm

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:31 pm

You going into production Paul?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:44 pm

It's a one-off...OK'd by JH.

antipodean · Post by **antipodean** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:31 pm

Where's the CB?

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:49 pm

jingle_jangle wrote:It's a one-off...OK'd by JH.

Ah the one you made a few years back then. Played that one when the paint was barely dry - you had it at one of the SoCal confluences.

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