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Dale I did use your rods and they work great. This thing needs some solid rods with the E to E tuned bass strings. I sounds great running the toaster through my ampeg B15N and the high gain (with the treble cap kicked in) through a marshall. It takes up a bunch of room and would be killer in a three piece band. Your stuff made the project come together, so thanks for all the help.

very cool ... but you probably can't play that baby finger style ...

When you bought it had a funny switch on the pickup cover over the bridge. What was that about?

Looks nice. Was the headstock shaved at one point? The wave looks big?

I don't think the point is to have it played fingerstyle. It's more like a longer scale Bass VI. I'd love to hear it with the mute!

That's awesome......great work! I love my Laredo strung piccolo so a six string must be a blast!

Rikk the toggle was for a EMG circuit in the bass (who knows for what). The headstock was not shaved before, but it's almost a whole new headstock in shape and size to work with the six Rick bass keys.

"rebound it with checkered binding (...) and painted it aged black."

That's the best part! I love aged black (greened w/yellowed clearcoat) and yellowed checkerboard binding, no matter how many strings it has!

Way cool bass. I used to own two 6-string basses, a Fender VI and a 1960 Danelectro (EDIT: pic in my next post), both 30" scale, but never had a full-scale old-style 6er.

Cool basses Ilan! I bet a Rick sixer like this would fit nicely in YOUR collection, too! I know my home studio would benefit from having one around!

That's one exotic 4001! Neat stuff!

that is cool...I wonder what it sounds like. I never heard one of those old style six string basses before.

Roy,Dale et al, great job! Another one of a kind! I love seeing great thought and care put into a project. I'll bet it sounds as good as it looks! Congrats!

Very cool, Roy, nicely done! I'd want to string it BEADGC.

I'm a old school 4 string player so my mind works e-G or on a guitar e-e, so I've never been able to figure out what to do with a low b because they just don't sound right to me, and I won't even try to go into a high c LOL. Ya can't play this thing with your fingers are do any kind of funk on it because the strings are just tooooo close together.

I am truly jealous. Nice job!