Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Enjoy this "The Beatles and their Rickenbacker guitars" article by Mr. Björn Eriksson too.

thanks Paul, really good stuff!

This is the response I got from Rickenbacker on the upgrade issue:

"The pickups are part of it. The other part is the wiring harness and this is not yet available. Unfortunately we do not have a repair shop and I am not familiar with the DC area, but if you check around I'm sure you should be able to find someone that can do the work. Swapping out pickups is fairly simple."

As you can see, I was also asking whether they endorsed any service shops in the DC area. I wonder how much of a sonic difference the wiring harness makes...hmm, interesting stuff.

I've got (what turns out to be) a jetglo 4003S, and made some of the modifications that Alexis is asking about. It was sold to me as a 4001, so I thought "I'll make it look more like a 4001". I replaced the neck pickup with a toaster one (which required some new routing) and got a new scratchplate. I also had it resprayed to a fireglo and fitted vintage knobs. I didn't bother with the zero fret - I've got one on my Hofner and Jeff and Owen are right, it does very little.

I haven't had the courage to have the headstock wings stained in case it didn't come out right.

I say put in the toaster ... it is a cool mod ... and totally reversable ...

Yep....And as long as you use flatwounds and play through a valve amp you'll have about 90% of Macca's sound...