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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!

Thanks folks. I’ve ordered a set of Gotoh SG360.

Well, well, well!

Wow - £1k for a broken one!

...for the museum of dysfunctional guitars.

That's as sad as a fly with no wings.

There were two jetglos there(!) - mine was in the big hall. I think a few folks had a go.

The jetglo and mapleglo are 4003 2010 models. 🙂

Well, I think my 78 has a deeper sound than my others, but recognisably Ric. Incidentally, I've only ever played one Ric bass which I didn't like - it had a really chunky neck, as opposed to the slim one on every other one I've played. However, that's personal preference - I was chatting with someone a short while back who said he didn't like Rics because the neck is too thin!