Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

any suggestions on who ? I would love to keep it if i could get the neck shaved down . Anyone out there want to give it a shot ?

Jeffery, this is a pretty easy task. Get some 240 grit sandpaper at the hardware store and start sanding in even strokes up and down the full length of the neck till, spreading the sandpaper out over your palm, till it's where you want it. The motion is kinda like polishing the neck. Stop regularly to feel it with your bare hand to check your progress.

Mike, it has binding, black binding. Up close it looks like someone painted over the binding but it really is just black binding. Very cool.

Jeff - If you're not comfortable with the notion of taking sandpaper to the neck yourself, I highly recommend Dale Fortune. He's doing a project for me as well and has done a lot of projects for other Forum members. Do a search on him and I'm sure you'll find pics of a lot of the projects he's done. There are a lot of threads covering his work under the 'Vibrola' topic. That would be great if you could keep your bass. You can pull it from Ebay on the grounds that there was an "error in the listing."

I would have GLADLY traded you my 1982 MG 4001
for that black-on-black 4003 of yours. That bass is perfect.

The eBay auction is almost done, though. ARGH! I really wish I would have read this post earlier... way earlier.

E-mail me Matt

Arghh... Why did they stop making black on black????? John: Get them back!