Rickenbacker 1976 4001FL Factory Fretless & Original Case £1900 Lancaster

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For sale this all original 1976 Rickenbacker 4001FL factory Fretless in a dark fireglo finish. 

It’s a beautiful instrument and comes with the original Ric case and the bridge pickup cover.

I got this some time before I had my hand operation as a substitute for my old upright. Unfortunately the now permanent issues with my fretting hand means this is one of the longer scale instruments I can no longer play comfortably. 

If you’ve not heard a fretless Rickenbacker before check out Chris Brubeck who is seriously brilliant and uses one as his main instrument. 

This one is strung with Thomastik flats and really sings. On the neck binding there is an inlaid dot that corresponds to the correct fret position making it a bit easier to intonate if you are new to fretless.

The neck is really skinny and comfortable on this one it’s also nice and straight with a low action. Truss rods are both working as they ought to but I haven’t needed to tweak them. 

The bass sounds fantastic as you would expect and the Ric ‘growl’ is surprisingly well suited to fretless. It’s not a heavy bass either at around 4kgs. 

There are dings a plenty but nothing that gets in the way of playing, a few finish touch ups here and there but not bad for a 48 year old gigged instrument. The case is in decent condition too with all the latches working properly.

Not sure how to price this as it is a bit of a niche instrument, I’ll put something up but I’m  open to negotiations. I’m not looking for trades unless you had a Ric 4000 knocking about (as if) or even better a Ric 3000 shortscale. 

I definitely would prefer pickup on this but would be happy for you to arrange your own insured reputable courier at a mutually convenient time. UK only of course. 

 

Edited yesterday at 11:11 by ash
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[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Groovy ! If lemmy played jazz ...🙂 Glwts 

[Beedster]

Such gloriously good instruments, hugely ignored/underrated in the grand scheme of all things fretless 👍

[Shaggy]

Beautiful.   Speculative PM sent

[Beedster]

49 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

Beautiful.   Speculative PM sent

 

Oooh, interesting......... 🤔

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All replied still for sale. I’m not really interested in trades.