Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:24 am
Andrew, sure I can take a pic of it... however, it's been modified quite a bit since I got it. Looking back on it, I should have left it stock. Especially seeing how much they are worth now! I picked it up quite cheap at the time. Someone I know said a friend was selling a bass... "A Ricken-something..." so I grabbed it!
It started out as a mapleglo bass. It has the checkerboard binding. The bridge has the extra cutout in the middle part of the mute assembly (I always wondered why they did that). It has the walnut strip down the center of the neck.
It had a six magnet toaster in neck position (1/2 from the fingerboard). It has the enclosed Grover Super Rotomatic tuners.
One odd thing I remember is that the headstock's tuner arrangement is slightly different in that the top two tuners are not straight across, but are angled like the bottom two, just not as much.
Currently it's refinished in a violet metallic lacquer. I've installed jumbo frets. I replaced the bridge with a Schaller (the original cavity under the bridge was inlaid with maple first). It has a Gibson Sidewinder (EB-0) pickup in the neck position and a Hi-A (Bartolini) in the treble position, and had a new pickguard made from white pearloid. It had active electronics and stuff like that. It's a great sounding bass!
The bass had a slight accident a few years ago when something fell on it, while it was in my workshop, and cracked the pickguard. I took the bass apart after that and haven't done anything with it since. I decided recently that I was going to restore the bass to as close to stock as possible. I have all the original parts, except the toaster PU.
It started out as a mapleglo bass. It has the checkerboard binding. The bridge has the extra cutout in the middle part of the mute assembly (I always wondered why they did that). It has the walnut strip down the center of the neck.
It had a six magnet toaster in neck position (1/2 from the fingerboard). It has the enclosed Grover Super Rotomatic tuners.
One odd thing I remember is that the headstock's tuner arrangement is slightly different in that the top two tuners are not straight across, but are angled like the bottom two, just not as much.
Currently it's refinished in a violet metallic lacquer. I've installed jumbo frets. I replaced the bridge with a Schaller (the original cavity under the bridge was inlaid with maple first). It has a Gibson Sidewinder (EB-0) pickup in the neck position and a Hi-A (Bartolini) in the treble position, and had a new pickguard made from white pearloid. It had active electronics and stuff like that. It's a great sounding bass!
The bass had a slight accident a few years ago when something fell on it, while it was in my workshop, and cracked the pickguard. I took the bass apart after that and haven't done anything with it since. I decided recently that I was going to restore the bass to as close to stock as possible. I have all the original parts, except the toaster PU.