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- Model
- 4001
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- Strings
- 4
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- Special
- Mod
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- Finish
- White
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- Manufacturing Date
- 1974-07
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- Serial #
- NG42XX
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- Registration Date
- Sep 17 2013
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- Country
- United Kingdom
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- State/Province
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- Lefty
- No
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- Collected Item
- Yes
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- Sale History
- Appeared on eBay, item number 130993704988, auction ended at 2013-09-26 14:26:33, Sold for $1727.31
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- Registered User
- Yes
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- Comments
- I got this back in 2000 from Musicground in Leeds and it played way better than all the rest of the Rics that I tried out. Whenever I let anyone play it (rarely) they say how much better than other Rics it plays… When I got it, it was in a sorry state of affairs and had been stripped back to the wood by the previous owner and was sporting a jazz pick up in the treble posision.
I played it like that for around a year whilst finding out about its history and discovered that it was once a white bass (traces of colour in the cavities) and so I took it off the raod and had it stripped to the wood, hardware off and renovated by Brian Eastwood (the best vintage guitar re-finsher in the northwest). I also acquired a 1975 treble pick up, had it fitted and re-wired.
It had already had the Ric tuning pegs replaced with Grovers and has recently had the superb Hipshot direct replacement brass tailpiece fitted. I still have the original tailpiece for history's sake (included in the sale) but you would not swap the two for playability - the sustain is massively better with the hipshot. The pic guard is a replacement too as the other was cracked. Lastly, it has schaller locking strap buttons fitted (for which strap locks will be included in the sale).
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