NBD: Warning, Ric content

[Woodinblack]

A lot of the gigs I have been playing recently are with my rick 5 string 4004, I thought about getting a 5 string 4003 made. i looked into it but ultimately you end up paying the same as a real s/h ric for the same price so I decided to just get a normal 4003 and see if I got on with it.

 

So that turned up today, a matte 4003s - I have a practice tomorrow so I get to hear what it sounds like, but I need to go through my normal set and try and adapt to having a string missing. Traditionaly it has never worked, and I ended up ignoring the 4, but we shall see- its a bit harder to convert a 4003 to a 5 string with the bridge!

 

First impressions are good, apart from the obvious lack of strings!

 

Anyway, useless without pictures, so here we are

 

 

[Lozz196]

Looks great 

[Woodinblack]

First impressions, good to play, B string aside, although the action is too high, but I don't want to change that just yet, because the A&D strings are proud of the nut, and looking on the interweb, rics are supposed to have a weird 45-55-75-105 gauge for those strings, and I suspect this is just a standard 45-65-85-105, so I ordered some new middle strings and see what that is like before I adjust anything.

Also the pickup seems quite a way down, but also slightly on an angle, but one of those metal surrounds you get would be nice so I will get one of those.

[Skybone]

Enjoy your new toy.

 

It may take some tweaking to get it exactly right for you, but it's worth it IMO (just like any other bass really). There's always changing out the bridge for the Hipshot, or finding the Babicz saddle unit.

[luckman67]

Very nice indeed I still think the Ric 4001/4003 body shape, is one of the best looking ever.

[Woodinblack]

44 minutes ago, Skybone said:

It may take some tweaking to get it exactly right for you, but it's worth it IMO (just like any other bass really). There's always changing out the bridge for the Hipshot, or finding the Babicz saddle unit.

 

Yeh, I thought about the bridge, its just a bit too old to have it (6 years), but I will leave it to see if it annoys me before getting one.