Using The Book As Inspiration

[lucky]

I haven't played my '92 4003 in almost 6 months, I had grown to dislike the mods I did on it & wished that I hadn't done them. Anyway for Christmas I was bought Paul's book and the Fireglo '68 4001 on the front cover got me thinking. I had tried to make my bass into a V63 style bass but, needed to get the HS pickup & toaster to finish it off, even though I was given a V63 surround & bought the scratchplate and vintage knobs. But after doing the mods I gave away my original parts .
So I bought a 4000 treble pickup surround & standard knobs from Rosetti & put them on my bass. One of the changes to the picture I made was leaving the pickup cover off, it's been on since 1999/2000 so I wanted to see how this would look like and play like. And I LOVE the way it looks now I have kept the V63 scratchplate with the half inch spacing,please excuse the bad photo as I have only just put it back together and wanted to post a picture. I honestly think that it will stay like this now or maybe a toaster pickup one day . Two things though one I'm loving my bass again & secondly I'm in a position now to buy a HS pickup but like this look better.

[bassduke49]

Glad to be of service! That's Wints' '68 on the cover, by the way!

[lucky]

Glad to be of service! That's Wints' '68 on the cover, by the way!

It's a lovely looking bass & thank you Paul for a great book, still flicking through it.

[Gilmourisgod]

Sorry, must have missed this, how/where is the book available?

[ram]

try Amazon- The Rickenbacker Electric Bass - Fifty Years as Rock's Bottom.

[lucky]

Sorry, must have missed this, how/where is the book available?

Amazon is the best bet, it's a great book.

[johnallg]

Shawn, that FireGlo is a beautiful version of FG.

[bassduke49]

Sorry, must have missed this, how/where is the book available?

Well, you're a newb around here, so you're forgiven!

Yeah, Amazon is the quickest and cheapest way to obtain the book. Don't forget to leave a review there if you do!

[Lefty4003S8]

VERY cool bass Shawn!!!!! I know you were going for the "V63" look, but, it REALLY looks like a vintage 4001.

I LIKE it!!!!!!

[lucky]

VERY cool bass Shawn!!!!! I know you were going for the "V63" look, but, it REALLY looks like a vintage 4001.

I LIKE it!!!!!!

Shawn, that FireGlo is a beautiful version of FG.

Thank you very much Gentlemen coming from you guys, your comments mean a lot .

[lucky]

A better day shot of my bass couldn't wait to play this, this morning even the missus likes it this way .

[teeder]

That looks great!

[lucky]

That looks great!

Thank you I'm happy how this bass has turned out.

[edski]

Glad to be of service! That's Wints' '68 on the cover, by the way!

Cool! I've touched that bass...sweetest I've ever seen

[AndyM]

Going to piggyback this thread. Late getting around to it, but I finally ordered the book via Amazon.ca
Yes, I'll write a review when I take delivery. BTW, I'm not a 'new' member; I've been here for a couple of years. After scrubbing my computer and restarting, the password was forgotten and I logged in here again with a new password. My status has been set to 'new member'