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There can not be enough reasons to show your Rick basses, so I thought this would be a nice addition to our topics.

This 3000 was brought to me yesterday:

Keeping up with the same color scheme... latest acquisition was this '86 4003S as a present for my son:

BT - the only way to go with Mapleglo. (runs for cover.....)

Congrats on the 3000, Bert! Very nice, enjoy it!

rickenbrother wrote:Congrats on the 3000, Bert! Very nice, enjoy it!

Thanks! The sound is comparible to a Precision sound and a nice addition to the Rickenbacker sounds I have. Besides this it lookes cute I think.

Congrats Berth!

ilan wrote:Keeping up with the same color scheme... latest acquisition was this '86 4003S as a present for my son:

Oooooohhh......

Oh, those no-binding maples with black trims does look lovely

Here is my ”new” 1996 V63 (along with an older brother). Stripped off all hardware to give it a good cleaning, polish & waxing, and some other work. Don’t know if we’re allowed to put up nude photos, but hope it’s ok

It won't arrive until next Wednesday.

I suppose it's not new but it feels like it. My 1st week of 2009 MG 4003 ended up having too thick of a neck for it to respond to truss rods, something I noticed the other day. It was basically permanently locked with slight, low-to-medium Fender-esque relief--too bad most P Basses don't come stuck that way. I sent the bass to RIC and they replaced the body/neck, so basically everything wooden. It's a 2-piece 2010 style neck now and I really like how it plays, and I actually think it sounds "smoother" in the response now just by a hair. The electronics and everything else are exactly what was installed on the old bass so it's a fair comparison as far as sound, I think. The wood grain is also really interesting, not flame-y at all, almost "spalted" looking which I really like. Even though I liked the 2009 body/neck, I have to admit I like this one even better; the neck profile is a lot like my 2007, not too hot or too cold, "just right". Not even a hint of a dead spot, although the 2009 was that way too.

The headstock seems the tiniest bit more "compacted" than my other post-2006es. Not enough to actually alter the shape, but may enough to lose a bit of mass and improve sustain or that rarest of creatures, "Neckus Divus" (I have yet to encounter it in the wild).

cassius987 wrote:I suppose it's not new but it feels like it
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I sent the bass to RIC and they replaced the body/neck, so basically everything wooden
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If it is new wood we at least need new pictures i.m.h.o..

Bert, that 3000 is the spitting image of the bass I used in my first real bass gig back in 1980 - my High School production of Jesus Christ Superstar. The bass was loaned to me for the gig as I was a guitarist at the time but had been learning all the JCS parts on another cheap loaner bass.

Great feel and sound; two weeks after the gig I got a new '80 4001 and I've never left bass since then.

berth wrote:If it is new wood we at least need new pictures i.m.h.o..

I'll try for it soon... Megan has the camera, and she's in Florida. I won't touch her >$1,000 SL-whatever, I always mess up her settings whenever I do.

Dis one!

Eden.

berth wrote:There can not be enough reasons to show your Rick basses, so I thought this would be a nice addition to our topics.

This 3000 was brought to me yesterday:

I have a 3000 mas well (walnut)... they absolutely rock the casbah. I love mine..its almost becoming my main axe....and Have a 4001 as well as a 4003. These are totally underated basses in my opinion.