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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:21 am
by ken_james
I've used Mike for parts before, but I'd like to find an old style used bridge if possible. I have most of the other parts, but for the money you can't go wrong unless the truss rods are shot. I'm supposed to be back in the US sometime in July so I won't get to touch it until then...
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 12:49 am
by rickcrazy
My, what a great fake...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2523747485&category=4713
Sheesh! Yuck!
Kendall, the tuners on this 4001 copy are exactly as those on the 1968 4001 you've bought from BunnyBass.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 10:56 am
by ken_james
Nice...
I've got a set of original klusons from a '68 4005 on the way, I'm still in Egypt so I can't start the repairs until then.
I'm pretty sure the 4000 is going to be white with a horseshoe.
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 5:14 pm
by basshawk
I just got my 4000 back on the road. Slap a vintage horseshoe in it and listen to her sing. Mine sounds very much like a "rick", even with just one pickup and flatwounds.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:40 am
by rickcrazy
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:12 am
by jwr2
how do destroy a ric 101 ... functional and aesthetic destruction ....
this should not be viewed before breakfast ...
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:18 am
by rickcrazy
It shouldn't be viewed last thing at night, either.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:14 pm
by mortivan
Sheesh.
Unbelievable...
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 7:22 am
by jwr2
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 7:35 am
by rickenbrother
The first and last ones you posted where the worst, especially with those "Buy It Now" option prices, those guys are crazy, considering the mutilation of those basses. I'm sure their reserve is very high too.
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 8:25 am
by wints
The black bass does look like it,s got the full width inlays...or are my eyes deceiving me..so it could be a late 60,s..being jetglo we can,t see if it,s got the headstock "wings"...and apart from the truss rod cover which looks original everything else has gone. Bet the neck,s great though if the serial # confims it,s a 60,s bass..
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 10:04 am
by rickcrazy
Sorry, but the black 4001 definitely is not from the 60's. I'm positive it is from the late 70's.
As to the '74' one, OJ dates to October 1975. A J-Bass pickup on a 4001 bass, of all the stupid modifications some people do to Rickenbacker basses! What on earth for?
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 11:40 am
by ojobob2
these butchered rickenbackers confuse me......
If someone took a p bass, and added say,,,, a musicman type pickup to it.....you could forgive them....its the same instrument with a different pickup.
But people seem to want to turn ricks into something that they are not- totaaly different basses in fact, eg two fat humberbuckers and a battery.
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 11:51 am
by jps
Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 12:21 pm
by rickcrazy
Yuck! I don't believe I wanna look at this for more than a few seconds! And is that a 21st fret? Jon, my man, you really put your foot into it this time.
Owen, you've put it beautifully: "These butchered Rickenbackers confuse me."