Nice Wood

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:31 am

Check out the wood!

http://cgi.ebay.com/RICKENBACKER-GUITAR-with-HARD-CASE_W0QQitemZ7355863579QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:40 am

uhuhuhuhuhuhuh, you said;

rickengeezer · Post by **rickengeezer** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:12 am

Is it just me or do a number of things about this bass look strange?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:33 am

non rickenbacker tuners and seymour duncan humbuckers ...

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:44 am

The headstock looks strange. I think this one originally had the Grover tuners, which means the post holes are in a slightly different location. Also, the replacement tuners have a much larger post diameter. In order to get the TRC to clear the larger posts on the tuners, it looks like the TRC was trimmed.

wints · Post by **wints** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:49 am

Shame, as that's a very nice bass when it comes down to the grain...

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:27 am

This is what the tuners are supposed to look like on a early 80s 4003.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:04 pm

Im with Les, I feel a disturbance in the force.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:25 pm

The SD replacement pickups for Rick bass sound lousy to me. Maybe it's the replace pickups and tuners and poor quality photos, but that bass looks odd to me also...even with the nice figure in the wood.

wints · Post by **wints** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:48 pm

I think it's the combo of the tuners, which make it look like a copy and the SD replacements.

Too many things looking wrong....

But, the split guard makes it around an early 4003 bass around 80/81.

rickinroma · Post by **rickinroma** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:38 pm

rickenfaker?

david_schwab · Post by **david_schwab** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:51 am

I think Duncan makes great guitar pickups, but except for the first active Basslines PJ pickups (with the DIP switches) I don't care for his bass pickups at all.

This would be a nice looking bass fixed up a bit.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:01 am

They're better than non-functioning pickups, but I was underwhelmed with mine compared to the guitar pups I've bought. They're not horrible, though.