New fingerboard

[basshead]

Lol, like I said, I'll be asking Lots of questions. I just hope Paul doesn't get sick of me. He does phenomenal work btw.

[Wiker]

I agree with you but living in the Middle East makes it hard to send to anyone, lol. I've re-fretted before and am prepared to re-fret this "Wreckenbacker".

I will, however, be asking loads of dumb questions and (hopefully) be in contact with people like Paul

That's the spirit

De-fretting, levelling, and re-fretting are the fun part.
Going through this myself recently (not quite finished yet), for me the challenging and time consuming work was/is re-finishing the fretboard.
I'm not that good with a praygun, and struggled to get a nice build-up of clear coat on each side of the frets - getting the build-up even and uniform on each side of each fret, and at the same time getting a smooth and even finish. I eventually I gave up on that build-up.

There's lots of info already in the "Vibrola" and "Reflections of a Curmudgeon" sections if you do some searching for "refret" and "refinish", and also "conversion varnish", in those sections.

[Kopfjaeger]

In my experience with Paul W., when he refinished my Blackstar, he was quite open and eager to tell me how it was progressing. I got the feeling he really enjoyed working on it and liked sharing details. In any question that I had about any of the Rickenbacker basses, I either purchased or was thinking of purchasing, he always emailed me back.

About finishing the fretboard, I recently saw a 4004 with a natural/unfinished board. It looked sweet. I imagine you need to oil it occasionally, I use lem-oil on my 4004.

It's an option to consider.

Sepp