Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

rickaddict wrote:

teeder wrote:I've got to say, I don't know what everone else thinks, but it doesn't get any more classic than that '68! That's smoking hot to me! It's got everything! Anyone need a spare arm, leg, kidney and left *ut?

There's just something about a '68 4001 deluxe in FG. They must be made from...

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"...the stuff that dreams are made out of."

4001V68, Please!

Something John B knew a few years ago and did something about.

I don't know how much John put into it, but I suspect it may be south of what a real V68 would cost.

**** or get off the pot, folks!

s4001 wrote:I don't know how much John put into it, but I suspect it may be south of what a real V68 would cost.

Oh, no doubt! Plus it's got real crushed pearlies which any factory reissue wouldn't have.

John, did you ever get the truss rods sorted out?

johnallg wrote:John, did you ever get the truss rods sorted out?

Eh, not really. Sadly it had become a case queen. I don't know what to do with it at this point. Maybe a heat treatment to the neck? Chris seemed to think that would work. The treble side is always dead flat but the bass side just will not hold no matter what.

Sure does look purdy!

johnallg wrote: Something John B knew a few years ago and did something about.

I knew it too. But mine got caught in the pipeline...for about four years now: One year at my house; three and counting in the shop...

Well...Although the work wasn't done by the same person and the inlays might not be the same material...I had this bass converted from small inlays to full width, and I notice no change in neck stability. It was also routed for 1/2" pickup spacing.

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It's neck was rock solid in the 27 years before the conversion, and remains rock solid in the 3 years since the conversion.

IIRC, the neck on John's V68 is on the large side. I would have been very surprised that removing material for the inlays would have made it unstable.

Isn't the inlay material a resin? I use some resins here at the office to hold fragile parts together while measuring them and the castings harden up like a rock. Could be a different type used though.

rickaddict wrote:Well...Although the work wasn't done by the same person and the inlays might not be the same material...I had this bass converted from small inlays to full width, and I notice no change in neck stability. It was also routed for 1/2" pickup spacing.

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It's neck was rock solid in the 27 years before the conversion, and remains rock solid in the 3 years since the conversion.

WOW Very nice bass.

Lucky you.

Well, my case queen '68 is in much better shape than Gary's...No horseshoe either. What am I bid for fair wood?

I just strung up mine with some TI's (thanks again John!) and the neck is happier than ever...