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He'd need more than the usual half bottle of JD if you gave him that to work on!

Can you imagine trying to adjust the truss rod and neck relief on that!?

Now £285.00...

🙂 I've just got the treble pickup added; I had to cut the treble pickup mount to fit it to a normal humbucker mount...

I'm glad I didn't see it in time, or I would've bought it.

They originally did a Fender shape and then modified it to avoid the possibility of legalities...

Dunno - I've never weighed one; they just seem fine to me when compared to putting on another bass.

As a further comment on the 'faker question, the stereo output of the Japanese ones which had dual outputs is labelled "Stereo-Sound" instead of "Ric-o-Sound". The Japanese fakers also didn't have the serial number stampes on the jack plate.

Someone on another site said that they thought the originals were Gotohs too! This is a really good neck, BTW - Blades are fine instruments. I've currently got it on a Warman body, but I think it might merit a better one. The downside is that the overhang in the neck pocket is deeper than a normal Fender fretboard extension, as it includes the truss-rod adjuster; that means that the bulkhead between the neck pocket and the neck pickup well needs to be cut down.

I'll be there! I'll bring along my latest faker too... (For the record, it's the one on the right which is a real Rickenbacker and a couple of folks had a go on it at the last SE Bass Bash!)

You use a stereo jack in the "Ric-o-sound" socket for split, or a normal mono one in the "Normal" one. The stereo jack is also known as a TRS, for tip-ring-sleeve, with the treble pickup connected to the tip and the neck one to the ring. You can't use both at the same time, because the mono socket has an integral switch which connects the neck and treble pickups together. The advantage of the stereo cable is that it's a single cable rather than two; the disadvantage is that you then have to split them (via a Ric-o-sound box, or your own assembly - I think I'm making one today, funnily enough!). Incidentally, to further contribute to the head-slap, RIC did release one guitar (a particular 620 model) which had dual mono outputs rather than the either/or Normal & Ric-o-sound ones.

I think they look awful - I guess we just have differing opinions! 🙂

Well - here's my current Ric lineup... '64 4001S (not RM1999!) white (oversprayed), '72 fireglo 4001, '78 4001 blue, 2010 4003 jetglo, 2010 4003 mapleglo, 2013 4003 project, 4004 Laredo blue. I don't get the weight thing - they seem no more or less heavy than anything else, except maybe my Rickenburger... The Ric 4000 series evolved over the years, headstock, pickups, machines, bridge/tailpiece, pickups, construction, strap buttons, tone capacitors, truss rods, pickup position, serial number format, "glo" vs "glow", and so-on; the change to 4003 was associated with a truss-rod change, but all of the other changes are kind of blurred. Interesting on the "glo"/"glow" naming, they seemed to drop the "w" in the mid 60's, as earlier catalogues had it.

I had a Diamond branded Ric copy some time back - it was a generic bolt-on neck Mat model.

I looked at an ad for a Jedson earlier in the week, but it'd be a curio/wall-hanger to go alongside my Top Twenty 6-string, as a reminder of how crap those first guitars we had were.

They're vaguely Ric-like, based on the Rockinbetter/Chickenbacker 34" scale and bridge. I plan to finish off one of my Ric-a-likes today - a black one.

Looks like the headstock was one of those blank squared ones and the person cut it to shape without using a template.

A Shpectrum...

Someone's project - a barebones body, add the hardware, make up an active circuit, bodge the missing back panels. (EDIT: I stand corrected!)

Someone's got that app for their phone where you can add ears on people's faces.

Certainly too many 9s for me!

It's weird - some of the work on it seems really good and other bits are just slap-dash.

Less neck dive than if it were a full-scale bass neck...

1 set of Gotoh SG360s fitted - straight in, screws went in smoothly. Thanks for the help!