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I tried one of these out this morning and I have to say I was pretty impressed by how it felt to play. One thing I noticed though was that when I soloed the pickups, the J pickup was considerably quieter than the P pickup. Does that sound right? Also - if I wanted to swap out the tuners, would Fender ones go right in with the same screw holes?

Sold! 😀

Thanks for all the advice guys! Got someone coming to view the [item name redacted on legal grounds lol] tonight, so fingers crossed! 🙂

It's on there now! Fingers crossed. 🤞

Reverb sounds interesting. Might give that a try. Not over the moon about the fees, but it seems more secure.

I'm not frustrated with Gumtree per se, just disappointed with having my hopes raised and dashed. It could have happened anywhere, I suppose.

I am selling a bass on Gumtree right now as I need to free up some cash, and alas it's one of those that we can't sell or trade here. It's also on a couple of facebook bass sales groups, with a lot of likes but no offers as yet, and I put it on Gumtree with not a lot of hope, but I thought I would do that before the dreaded eBay. Imagine my delight when I received a message within 10 minutes of placing the ad asking if it was still available. I did think that was a bit odd as the ad has the date on it, but I thought hey ho and replied. The guy then asked the price (again odd as it's on the ad) and said he would pay with paypal and get someone to collect. We had a bit of back and forth but he asked nothing about the bass itself, just seemed to be so eager to throw his money at me. I was well suspicious by this time so googled "Gumtree Paypal scams" and sure enough it fit right into the description. You agree a price, you receive a PayPal email saying you've been paid, then someone picks up your valuable thing before you've checked and found out there's no money in your account. I went back to him and said I would prefer cash on collection and it all went very quiet. So my question is - where else apart from eBay would you sell a bass? Am I missing a trick?

Apparently from '73 they switched to non-full width inlays (and I did have a 1980 4001, so I should have known this) and then in about 2008 back to full width. It's just possible people have bigger things to worry about right now, but I thought I would share, nonetheless.

Thanks guys, that's really helpful! I will check out those resources (I love a good rabbit hole!), just began getting mild panic...

Hi there, I have a 4003 from 1996 (according to the Rickenbacker serial number tracker), and the triangular fretboard inlays go as far as the E and G strings, but I notice on current (and some older) models, they seem to go right to the binding on the edge of the neck. I have found images of other '96 4003s where the inlays look the same as mine, but I was a bit spooked. Do any of you guys have 4003s from this era with similar inlays? Or any info about them?

Hi Lozz - how was it? Nice and clean sounding?

Just an update on this. My ABM500 sounded really nice through my Barefaced Four10 at home, little bit crackly on the pots but then it's 12 years old so hey. Took it to rehearsal a couple of weeks later and it crackled LOADS then just did loud buzzing and none of the pots worked at all, couldn't hear the bass or anything other than the buzzing so had to switch off. Sent it back to Ashdown who fixed it and returned it within a week - can't speak highly enough of those guys. It sounds perfect now, no crackles, good as new and lovely tone. So my lesson is - think about the "bargain" as although it only cost me £220, I then had to spend £100 getting it fixed. One of Ashdown's "approved used" ABM500s from eBay would have cost a little more initially but wouldn't have needed fixing quite so soon.

Just snagged an Evo II for £220, so I think this discussion may be redundant in terms of what I might end up buying...

I totally get that the EVO4 has more going on, but I don't need compressor, and all the EQ options. And when I can pick up an EVOII for £240, is there a really good reason to stump up the rest? If a 4 was £300, I could totally see the benefit, but otherwise?

My normal rig is a 40 yr old Fender Bassman 100 and Barefaced Four10 which is awesome, but I play a lot of gigs with shared back line or in places where I don't want to take a vintage valve amp, so I'm thinking about a good solid workhorse with a nice tone to have as a backup (and also be a little easier on my back) hence looking at the Ashdown ABM heads. My question is, what are the differences between the different models? Would a 500 Evo II be fine or should I get the latest model? Thoughts? Help?