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Model 4005 f-hole
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2001 3:27 am
by admin
There is a very interesting and rare
1970 Model 4005 bass photo recently posted on the Rickenbacker Registration Page. This is a beauty and the bound f-hole is really striking. There cannot be many of these out there.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2001 5:07 am
by headbanger
Could this be the elusive 3261?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 5:22 pm
by admin
Gerard: This may indeed be the link to the "Elusive 3261". Time to bring in the Rickenbacker anthropologists. There is digging to do.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 6:31 pm
by rick12dr
A 4005 with the F hole is Very cool looking!Wow!
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 10:37 pm
by headbanger
Yes, it is stunning. I had wondered if the export 4005 was different from the domestic version.
First known pic too Peter, quite a coup.
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to how many made?
25 or less?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2001 9:35 am
by jwilli
Wow!
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2001 9:43 am
by sir_andrew_of_left_coast
Intrigued enough to add something new to your 4005 project, JW???
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2001 11:14 am
by markthemd
This could get interesting AS and JW ...I like it .
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2001 7:28 am
by mark_telfer
In about October or November 1998, British dealer Music Ground had a 1967 Fireglo F-hole 4005 in from Italy, priced at £2900 (approximately $4200 today). This bass was probably a genuine Rose Morris 3261 and had a rounded top and a mono input only. The reason that I passed up on the bass was that the 1 o'clock F-hole was exactly the same size as on the Rose-Morris 1993-1998 guitars and looked totally out of place on the larger body. The overall effect really didn't look right at all and I continued in my search for a more aesthetically-pleasing scimitar-shaped-hole example. However, the 1970 Jetglo bass on the registration page has a longer, better-proportioned F-hole than the 1967 one that definitely does look right ! Unfortunately, I have no photos of this earlier bass. Roll on the Rickenbacker custom shop. My order for a three-pickup 4005/8RM awaits !
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2001 7:59 am
by jwilli
What'll show up next?! A solid topped '60's 325?
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2001 11:59 am
by sir_andrew_of_left_coast
A slash-holed, baritone Tulip?
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2001 12:39 pm
by markthemd
an 'F' hole lightshow bass ,Lefthanded and fretless!!!1
or a lightshow bantar!
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2001 10:16 am
by aladams
1967 fireglo 4005 Sited on EBAY....Don't everyone jump at once! AL A.