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Rickenbacker 1976 ...fake...


Fleabay85
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I'm not a rickenbacker expert and I received this bass 1 week ago.
The prev owner said this bass was born as a 4000 modell and in the 80's it was modiefied to 4001 or 4003 electronic.
The serial is PL6737.

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[quote name='Fleabay85' timestamp='1333814919' post='1606916']
I don't know exactly...Maybe the fretboard had dot inlays in the past?
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That would help to explain the lack of laquer on the fretboard. It's weird that the neck is bound too (and possibly been re-fretted?) - you never see that on a 4000. To go to that amount of work on the neck, then leave the body wings unbound....

Not having a go BTW - Its just its had some interesting mods done to it.

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[quote name='geofio' timestamp='1333815395' post='1606926']
sorry thats not a rickenbacker bass , it is a a copy bass. i have been collecting rics for 38 years , that bass is all wrong.
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I'd kind of been thinking the same. Funnily enough I couldn't find anything wrong at the body end - it was the fretboard and tuning pegs that started the alarm bells ringing.

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i dont think this is a genuine rick, i have been a collector of rics for 3o odd years, the wings are unequal you wont find that on a ric, the hardware isnt right, the headstock shape is wrong also the left curve on the headstock is wrong , the serial number is a 1976 rickenbacker the body contours dont look right , sorry i would return that to the seller.

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Agreed its a fake, the headstock and tuners look like an Ibanez or CMI. The body is all wrong, have you checked the trussrod? Most faker's have one - not all - but this is generally the case, the Ibanez models certainly have one TR whereas real Rick's have two. I'd return it. Sorry.

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I've seen those fretboards before. Will do the research, but dim and distant memory is screaming Gianni at me.
Well done FleaBay85 for taking the comments in such a positive way. Just really good you will be able to return :D .

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Headstock isnt right and the skunk stripe doesnt match up. Also no binding (or any markings from a refin over it) so its a fakey job.

Sure its probably a nice player but id get ya money back fella.

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