Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Used as what....a shovel?
Poor thing needs some serious TLC
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4001-E-BASS-vintage-1974_W0QQitemZ170080162939QQihZ007QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rickenbakker?

Any idea what the rear p/u is?

looks like some sort of Fender Jazz PUP. If the price stays at 500 UKP I might just go for it and spend a while fixing her up. I would have thought a refin would be in order.

FWIW there was a BIN on this bass of 600 UKP about a week ago that someone hit on. Don't know what happened, but I think some alarm bells should be rung.

I love that one-of-a-kind "J-Bass" pickup...

I've got one you can have Sergio...

Especially as I need a favour again...

Bob

I'm watching that one, too. What are you concerned about re this bass?

I can't make out any numbering on the jack socket.

Andrew: name it.

Donny, maybe it's just the buyer trying to make a quick buck, but I saw this before the BIN was hit and had it been 500 it would have been me, but at 600 there was just too much work to be done IMHO.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150089370552&rd=1&rd=1

I e-mailed the seller, the bass is all original except for the treble pickup, which he did not say what it was.

Is that maybe a G&L pickup?

No way, Jeffrey. I'm sure it is Japanese-made.

I remember a jazzbass copy back in the '70s branded with 'Gherson', who may have been Italian, and that looks like one of their pickups.

Don't understand why the seller's left no explanation for the previous sale falling through. Odd.