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Some Ric Porn for you: 4003S/5 and 4003S/8
uwe:
Bass Professor, a German muso mag, is doing a Ric feature over several issues and wanted pics of 5- and 8-stringers (my problem child: since I ill-advisedly bought it, it has devoured two sets of original Ric trussrods who are now replaced by Ibanez trussrods which are thicker and stronger, the fretboard had to be taken off and the neck honed down, the bridge was countersunk into the body to enable sensible upper register action without having to make the neck too flat and I had the sequence of the octave strings changed, which makes fretting easier and less "buzzy" - now it finally plays like it should have from the start :rolleyes:). Bass Professor got a hold of me and this is what resulted:
Ze Double-Whammy:
Body close-ups:
Note: String sequence changed from original regular string/octave string to ocatve string/regular string for better playability.
Full size:
Headstocks:
Bridges (4003S/8 sunk into body via extra-routing to achieve playable action):
Chris P.:
Cool! Nice to have such pics from your own basses!
Bert:
--- Quote from: Chris P. on September 16, 2009, 04:40:34 AM ---Cool! Nice to have such pics from your own basses!
--- End quote ---
+1 So true!
chromium:
Nice basses!
I'd love to get one of the Ric 8s (I really think that Ric sound mates nicely with the 8 string), but your experience with that thing really scares me from buying one that I can't lay my hands on first. Is there any place you know with some background info on these neck issues? Just curious if they might have been centric to the 4008, 4003s/8, some specific "runs" of these basses, or all of them (a lot of tension there, afterall). Are they all ticking time bombs? or is it just the luck of the draw?
The Ibbys that I'm also watching for look to be really overbuilt in typical fashion for that era, with dual rods and all. That'd probably be the smarter move, but those Rics are just so...
Chris P.:
Of course there's the very good Rickresource Rickenbacker forum. If you can find answers, you'll find them there. Berth knows all about it.
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