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I'm going to pick up some calipers this weekend if I remember to and post my readings. I tried to do something like this several years ago but got no bites, good idea Ted.

November 1987
4003

Thickness
1 = .88
7 = .85
12 = .87
16 = .90

Width
Nut = 1.63
12 = 2.05

Rickenbacker 400x Bass Neck Measurements

Owner Model Year 1st Fret 7th Fret 12th Fret 16th Fret Nut 12th Fret
J Hering 4003 2002 0.950 0.950 0.980 1.080
M. Hutchinson 4003 2004 0.920 0.920 0.950 0.980
T Staberow 4001 1975 0.885 0.865 0.875 0.88
T Staberow 4001 1963 0.830 0.850 0.850 0.925
C Merrin 4001 1975 0.868 0.835 0.838 0.87
J Drysdale 4003 1996 0.830 0.810 0.810 0.840
J Drysdale 4001 1972 0.870 0.860 0.860 0.880
J Allgaier 4003 2004 0.927 0.946 0.970 1.048
K Teed 4001V63 1992 0.882 0.882 0.897 0.904 1.655 2.075
K Teed 4001V63 1993 0.892 0.895 0.905 0.945 1.720 2.150
D Pascoe 4001JG 1972 0.882 0.890 0.902 0.925 1.700 2.049
D Pascoe 4001FG 1972 0.877 0.860 0.871 0.883 1.680 2.093
D Pascoe 4001BG 1974 0.868 0.879 0.895 0.962 1.699 2.144
D Pascoe 4/3/8 Silve 1986 0.852 0.870 0.932 0.997 1.639 2.066
D Pascoe Shadow 1986 0.846 0.897 0.944 0.969 1.614 2.054
D Pascoe 4001V63 1997 0.909 0.889 0.899 0.917 1.737 2.151
D Pascoe 4001CS 1998 0.899 0.891 0.905 0.905 1.707 2.124
D Pascoe 4003MID 2002 0.958 0.944 0.973 0.986 1.700 2.125
D Pascoe 4003TUR 2002 0.954 0.952 0.981 1.000 1.699 2.147
D Pascoe 4003MB lh 2003 0.917 0.938 0.963 0.918 1.695 2.115
D Pascoe 4001C64 2003 0.917 0.888 0.892 0.911 1.699 2.110
D Pascoe 4003FG 2005 0.984 0.940 0.964 0.981 1.720 2.143

MISC
D Pascoe 4005 1967 0.832 0.870 0.876 0.879 1.684 2.096
D Pascoe 4080WHT 1975 0.891 0.836 0.889 0.888 1.607 2.027
D Pascoe 4080AZ 1975 1.097 0.872 0.884 0.876 1.592 2.057
D Pascoe 4000FG 1975 0.913 0.871 0.881 0.891 1.660 2.085
D Pascoe 4080BG 1979 0.98 0.902 0.899 1.362 1.694 2.017
D Pascoe 3001 1979 0.938 0.924 0.926 1.270 1.673 2.094
D Pascoe 4002 1982 0.932 0.862 0.918 0.948 1.621 2.039
D Pascoe 2050 1988 0.933 0.929 0.963 1.24 1.642 2.133

Nice job Dave. Very interesting.

I did my measurements with a straight edge and not a caliper but my 72 seems to be in the ballpark with other 72's so I think it is pretty close. I would like to get calipers though in case I am consistently lowballing my measurements.

Busy Sunday morning there Dave!

Interesting measurements for all there, with Mr Drysdale's 96 looking very thin!

Andrew, busy indeed. My wife gave me a hand by writing the dimensions down as I called them out. It went pretty fast. I found it easiest to pull aside the "D" & "G" strings off of the fret board to measure.

Kevin T. was nice enough to let me borrow a high end set of digital caliper. I promised to get them back to him A.S.A.P.

Thanks for the numbers Dave! I will pull all of mine out of storage this week and get them ready for the Confluence. I will measure them up then.

Dave sent me more numbers so I have added lines to show the Thinest, Thickest, and Average. Makes for quicker finding, but since it can be any neck, not necessarily the same one, not sure how useful it will be, especially the Average. But there it is...

http://www.geocities.com/johnallg/temp/Rick_400x_Neck_Measurements.xls

More data......

Also, I wish I could make it to the Midwest Confluence but that is my wife's birthday weekend and plans were made and.... lets just hope for plenty of pics!

BTW, you only have a very short time to mail your taxes in so get cracking!!!

Dave,

If you haven't sent the calipers to me yet, maybe you could send them to Andy first.

Kevin

Kevin, I just mailed them... Sorry...

So were any measurements taken at the Midwest Confluence?

Bump

Dave, were measurements taken and were they tabulated? An inquiring mind wants to know...

Yes, measurements were taken. I had 3 of my 4 Rick basses measured, and the results were right in line with what I'd guessed.

I'm looking forward to seeing the tabulations, too....

Sorry guys, I have not been posting up on this because of my project load. I have a pile of things I have to finish soon.