Dear RIC - Please consider this 4003s5 "Quad Coil" :D

[Benjamin]

For the "what the heck am I thinking" file.

I am warming to the new triangular pickups idea for the 4003s5. I do prefer a more regular shape, but I get where you're going.

Here is an idea though, rough as it is. How about offering an ALL OUT - BALLS TO THE WALL option giving us four of them suckers! Make another push-pull pot or two to series/parallel the individual pickups. EDIT: I originally thought about coil-split, but that would leave a strange string imbalance on the "upside down" pickup. Although you could switch between humbucking and single-coil, which would simply select the original right side up pickup with fat end under the B, of course.

If I had a 4003s5 I would actually consider doing this.

[rickenbrother]

I would suggest to those who can't get used to the shape of the new pickups, to make a rounded rectangular surround for each.
I don't mind the shape of the new pickups. I had a hard time getting used to the pickguard without the treble pickup surround. So I solved that problem.

Before

After

[jdogric12]

Good thing you transferred the tone sticker!!! ha ha ha ha Seriously, looks great Joey.

[rickenbrother]

Good thing you transferred the tone sticker!!! ha ha ha ha Seriously, looks great Joey.

It didn't last long from being transferred, so it's resting comfortably with the original pickguard. Then, I totally blacked it out. Maybe I'll go with DR Black Beauties strings...or DR Neon Reds.

[jdogric12]

I actually like the look of the popcorn ceiling reflecting on the finish!

[rickenbrother]

I actually like the look of the popcorn ceiling reflecting on the finish!

That's the power of Jetglo!

[doctorwho]

When I saw the original picture, I thought of the 4001 bass that Mike Parks had in his "Hall of Shame" that had a gazillion switches and knobs to control all permutations of its multiple pickups ...

[rickenbrother]

When I saw the original picture, I thought of the 4001 bass that Mike Parks had in his "Hall of Shame" that had a gazillion switches and knobs to control all permutations of its multiple pickups ...

Only the landing page still exists. Pick of the Ricks is gone too.

https://www.ricpage.com/ricnew.htm

[doctorwho]

When I saw the original picture, I thought of the 4001 bass that Mike Parks had in his "Hall of Shame" that had a gazillion switches and knobs to control all permutations of its multiple pickups ...

Only the landing page still exists. Pick of the Ricks is gone too.

https://www.ricpage.com/ricnew.htm

Yeah, I saw that when I tried to grab a screenshot of the bass in question on his site ... if one does a search on "the rickenbacker page at the music connection", one can find a link to a slightly different page:

which is likely an older page. There is also a link to Facebook in that search, but since I'm not a member, I only see a limited amount of stuff (or at least, so I figure). From what I see there, it looks like the last post was in 2020 (?!?).

I did a quick search for "mike parks obituary north carolina" and did see one (Michael Jason Parks, age 48, IIRC), I hope that was not him.