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[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1316446862' post='1378096'] You must've woke them up [/quote] Ha! Ha! Rickenwaffe in for the kill as ever....they didn't get that Jolena copy though so I guess that's one for the Rick Resistance!

[quote name='bosozoku' post='1371338' date='Sep 13 2011, 02:49 AM']Uhhhh, not a Rickenfaker, but makes my sphincter pucker, and I don't think it's in a good way... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rickenbacker-4003-customised-body-project-unique-/220846050662?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item336b734d66"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rickenbacker-400...=item336b734d66[/url] More photo's here: [url="http://s1121.photobucket.com/albums/l512/nigel_p_baxter/Rickenbacker%204003%20customised/"]http://s1121.photobucket.com/albums/l512/n...3%20customised/[/url][/quote] eurgh......... WHY? Seen this before.....WHY? Please lock the power tools in the garage in future...

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1371100' date='Sep 12 2011, 09:16 PM'][url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rickenbacker-Bass-Guitar-4001-4003-Spares-Repair-Maybe-Vintage-Fireglo-/130575692348?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1e66eaf23c"]This Hondo won't last.[/url][/quote] I think you are right! I thought about warning him off using the sacred R word but I've seen this one before.... I picked up the Gumtree bass yesterday and its a mid to late 70s 4001. The routing, truss rods, fixtures and fittings all point to this era. The jack socket cover has been replaced and all the electrics are gone but the pickups sound fantastic. The machineheads have the black plastic ferrules from this era and the dark strip running the length of the neck and body (which is covered in a rather fetching snot green punk paint job but the stripe outline is visible). The neck profile is very similar to my 4000 bass, slim and flat. The neck by the way is fine, nice action now I've adjusted the bridge which was rusted up and set at its highest. Plays great now! I'm looking at getting it fretted and if anyone has a wiring diagram (that I can understand ) I may have a go at rewiring it myself. I have a perspex TR cover so I can add that too. Not sure about a refin as I quite like the look of it....but hey if I can get it done cheap enough it would have to be mapleglow or white. I will put up some pics at some point. Anybody out there got a white 4001 scratch plate?

[quote name='karlfer' post='1361066' date='Sep 3 2011, 04:24 PM']Cheers warwickhunt, just didn't feel right. Karl.[/quote] I contacted him after it ended, he said it was a refin, the scratchplate was a custom job but everything else was original, he said it weighed 5kgs - I'd say about right for a 70s P. Shame he didn't include this in the ad as I think it put many of us off! Sounded a decent enough chap he said he would accept the start price if interested....going to give it a miss as I already have a 70s P bass.

[quote name='karlfer' post='1362250' date='Sep 4 2011, 09:22 PM']Good luck Ash and keep us in the loop please?[/quote] Will do!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1361338' date='Sep 3 2011, 09:20 PM']Would like to have a go at sorting that. Even though I haven't actually finished sorting the one I have (got a new plate and nut to go on).[/quote] Have contacted him and am going to have a look as I live quite near. Looks like it will be a fun winter project for me if I go for it....which I am!

[quote name='Big_Stu' post='1348690' date='Aug 23 2011, 08:47 AM']At our first metting he told me he got sick of seeing so many Les Pauls around, so he bought one & cut another cutway into it to balance the look - and that's where he got the idea for the J1. There was a guitar shop in Blackpool that had a "Not For Sale" JB Strat on the wall, thru' neck. The owner said he'd been offered £10k (which I took with a pinch of salt) & he'd rejected the offer. Some time in the past hour; & yet still the cheap copies are up there. Definitely a pattern there.[/quote] Damn shame! I think everyone should have a fair go - despite the high pricing this was a lovely bass - seems that the private sellers are now getting a hammering from eBay and the Rickenwaffe.....sort of echoing what's happening in Britain at the moment....where big business and those supposedly representing our best interests are exempt from the 'rules'.

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250877637733?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250877637733?ssP...984.m1423.l2649[/url] I wonder how long it will last before the Rickenwaffe snipe it? I do think the pricing is a wee bit optimistic in the current economic market. Nice example though, about 600 less and I'd be tempted!

[quote name='solo4652' post='1342907' date='Aug 17 2011, 11:19 AM']See: [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-adverts.showadvert/index-1034281429/c7e66d5f.html"]http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-adver...9/c7e66d5f.html[/url][/quote] I contacted the seller who sent me some pics, I noticed the headstock logo didn't match the backplate - the plate should have a serial number if its original and there is only an F stamped on it and a black plastic 'cushion' (which doesn't match the earlier decal in any case). To be fair as soon as I pointed this out to him he amended the ad.