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Would love to see how many leftys are on here and where you had to buy your lefty Rick. Always Ebay for me. Cant walk into a music thats for sure.
Mine is a 1982 4001s

Here's an older photo of mine.

On the wall: 360/12 Carl Wilson, 730S Shiloh, 660/12
On the floor: 360, 1997

Since the photo was taken, the 360 and 660/12 have found new homes.
Jingle Jangle built the 730S for me, the others were purchased from various retailers throughout the country.

1979 4001 Walnut, bought from Nationwide Guitars.
http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... p?id=13354


1996 4001V63 FG, bought from a well known guitar collector when advertised over at the BeatGear Cavern.
http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... p?id=22390

Now.....HERE'S a thread I can REALLY enjoy!!!!!!!!

If ONLY I knew how to post pics. to this thread....I'd show some of my Lefty Rickenbacker basses.
(I currently have 4 of them)

SWEET lookin' basses you guys have there!!!!!!

Lefty4003s8





Do not drink from the toilet when taking Lyrica

Here's my lefty, a '79 4001-SLH - I ordered it from Southpaw Guitars in Texas back in about '94, I want to say. Not sure if they're still around.





I lived in Seattle at the time, and bought the bass sight-unseen. I already had two righty 4001s with chrome hardware from head-to-toe, and I wanted an old used Rick for gigging that I didn't have to pamper and buff every 5 seconds. And just for the sake of getting something slightly different, I decided to look for a lefty, string it righty, and then strip it & hand-paint it myself. The guy at Southpaw said they had 3 lefty Ricks - two 4001s, and the 4001-S. He said that the 4001-S was in "pretty good shape," so I ordered that one. When I got it, it was FLAWLESS. It was basically a brand new bass that had been sitting around unplayed for 14 years! Broke my heart to strip off that perfect Jetglo finish, but that's why I bought the bass to begin with. Kind of threw a monkey wrench in my plan when they sent me a brand new bass! But alas - I carried out my original plan to hand-paint it, and there it is.

Greg - I use Photobucket to host my pics, then just copy & paste the image URL into the body of the RRF message.

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walker wrote:.... I ordered it from Southpaw Guitars in Texas back in about '94, I want to say. Not sure if they're still around. ....

Southpaws is still around, but they are no longer a RIC dealer.

Probably the fanciest leftie Rick 4004 you'll ever see, an early Cii model in quilted Trans Red. It is owned by a Chicagolander who would like to remain unanimous.

NICE! It gets MY vote. So, looks like the owner remains unanimous!

Cool looking Rick Mark. So.... Whats the difference between a 4001s and a 4001-s?

The designation 4001S can be confused with references to plural 4001 basses: 4001s. I have to be careful with this in my writing of the book, so I usually put the plural on bass ("several 4001 basses . . .").

Anyway, to clarify, the 4001S is the model with no binding on body or neck and usually with dot inlay position markers. The 4001 (without the S suffix) is the "deluxe" model with the body and neck binding and triangular ("shark fin") position markers. The majority of 4001S basses were made in the 1970s and featured a set-neck construction (as opposed to neck-through) with a slab body made of two pieces of maple. Oddly, RIC price lists and catalogs fail to list this model at all until the very end of construction (in the early 1980s). Looks like most early "4001S" models made in the 1960s were to fill orders for export, becoming the Rose-Morris 1999 when sold by RM. For many of us, the first visions of a "Rickenbacker bass" was the "4001S" or the "RM 1999" in the hands of Paul McCartney, Chris Squire, Peter Quaife, John Entwistle and others who emulated them.

The "S" designation was also used for the follow-on 4003 design, and extended to apply to other models without binding and with dot inlays such as the 4003S/5 and 4003S/8.

Nice breakdown, Paul.

And you were right about the plural form of 4001 vs 4001S. I was afraid that might cause some confusion.

I differentiate it this way:

A bunch of 4001s vs. a lot of 4001S basses or 4001Ss. Large S designates the model (4001S), a small s designates lots of them4001s, 4001Ss). I supoose it could be 4001S'.

walker wrote:Here's my lefty, a '79 4001-SLH

You’re not the only one to ruin.. mm.. turning a lefty right handed, but the only one I’ve seen standing forward.
My ’79 Walnut was set up right handed when I got it - extra strap button, extra fret markers, flipped nut. Someone else here also mentioned getting a lefty like this.