{"id":249,"date":"2012-09-30T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T13:46:20","slug":"249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Rickenbacker Model 4003 Bass In Fireglo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s just something about the way a Rickenbacker looks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve had my Rickenbacker 4003 fireglo bass since May 12, 2000. I kept the factory strings on until June 27, 2002, and it sounded good with those strings. After reading the forum for a while, I got the urge to try Pyramid gold flatwound strings on it. Man, this is the sound! If you like McCartney, then put some Pyramids on and you won\u2019t be sorry. I had to adjust the truss rods half a turn tighter, lower the action, and reset the bridge saddles for proper pitch. The hardest thing was getting over the fear of screwing something up on my bass, but I got through it just fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, my bass sounds as good as it looks. There\u2019s just something about the way a Rickenbacker looks. No other bass looks anything like it, which is one of the reasons I was attracted to it. The finish is superb, and it plays wonderfully. Once it\u2019s in tune, it stays there. The neck is a bit heavier than the body, so it can tend to want to drop a bit when on a strap. Overall, it\u2019s a great bass! I had never seen or heard one in person before I ordered mine, but I wasn\u2019t disappointed when I got it. I love it.<br \/>\n&#8211; Timothy C. Langford &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s just something about the way a Rickenbacker looks. I\u2019ve had my Rickenbacker 4003 fireglo bass since May 12, 2000. I kept the factory strings on until June 27, 2002, and it sounded good with those strings. After reading the forum for a while, I got the urge to try Pyramid gold flatwound strings on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covering-the-basses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickresource.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}