Re: 4004 clear coat fingerboard
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:57 pm
Um, she liked that one Jeff, THANKS? LoL!
Um, she liked that one Jeff, THANKS? LoL!
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Um, she liked that one Jeff, THANKS? LoL!
Re: 4004 clear coat fingerboard
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:59 pm
I just knew she would like their goodies. 
Re: 4004 clear coat fingerboard
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:32 pm
She sure did Jeff, I hate to say it, so did I! LoL!jps wrote:I just knew she would like their goodies.
So, to try to get this back on thread, does anyone know when & WHY RIC decided to not clear coat the 4004Cii?
Also, didn't Dane make a 4004 fretless? I can't recall seeing a pic of that project. I'm not sure how they would sound.
If I like the 4004Cii like I'm hoping I will, I'd like to get a player and convert it to fretless but I guess a 4004L would be better for this application?
Thoughts?
Re: 4004 clear coat fingerboard
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:25 am
I had my 4004Cii MG converted to fretless. The frets were pulled and replaced with strips of plastic cut on the same radius as the board. A very thin epoxy was then brushed on till it would soak in no longer. After that, I filled the bridge pickup route and made a 4002 spec guard with two pickups replacing the one. The pickups are now in roughly the same positions as a 4004LK. The bridge pickup gets it's own tone and volume while the other two are wired to the selector swith with a master tone and volume between them. Joey played it a bit at this years SoCal RIC Fest. I think Graham played it during Big Bottom too.
Re: 4004 clear coat fingerboard
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:53 pm
How about a full-frontal picture of this bass, Dane? I did see the edge of it in a picture from the California meeting,and was curious to see what the whole thing looked like.