As it is on a regular Ric 4003S/5, not that I mind as pick player, but for a finger player it would be awkward. But the less than full long scale on a Ric defeats the concept of an optimal-sounding B anyway. It's a flabby affair and Ric even had the nerve of delivering its own reg 5ers with a custopm Ric string set featuring - wait for it! - a manyly 115 as, no, not the E but as the B string. Possibly, I got it wrong and that gauge was supposed to be the high B? ; - )