DESCRIPTION:
This Rickenbacker 4001 Bass in Jetglo (Gloss Black) finish was built during September of 1973 at the Rickenbacker shop in Santa Ana, California.
It is in overall good shape, with light fretwear and light to moderate finish wear, primarily on the back. Currently strung with round wounds, this bass plays cleanly and well.
One of the iconic rock basses, the Rickenbacker 4001 was built as a two-pickup version of the 1957-1981 4000 bass, adding a neck pickup to the distinctive Cresting Wave body design by German luthier and designer Roger Rossmeisl.The 4001 bass proved critical to the survival of the company in the early 1970s.
Built from 1961 to 1986 when it was replaced by the 4003, the Rickenbacker 4001 bass features a Maple body and through-body Maple and Walnut neck, with a bound and finished Bubinga fingerboard.
Rickenbacker's choice of fingerboard woods has varied over the years. Before 1960, Indian Rosewood was used. During 1960, Bubinga (Guibourtia spp., also called African Rosewood) was introduced and remained the choice until 2011 when Chechen (Metopium brownei, also called Caribbean Rosewood) took its place and is still used.
For hardware, this Rickenbacker 4001 Bass has a set of Rickenbacker-branded tuning gears (the original Grover parts were removed and are not included), a proprietary Rickenbacker bridge and pickup set. The bridge pickup is a faux-horseshoe single coil model, intended to evoke the early Rickenbacker pickup design dating to the 1930’s. The bridge and neck pickups are both single coil units. On this example, the bridge pickup cover is still in place – it is often removed if the player finds it in the way. The bridge mute foam is still in place.
For wiring, there are individual volume and tone controls and a pickup selector, but as with many Rickenbackers there is a dual-output jack plate for both Mono and Rick-O-Sound outputs. Rick-O-Sound puts each pickup on one channel of a ‘Stereo’ or Insert-type cable, allowing the use of separate amplifiers or channels. Finally the original strap buttons have been replaced with Dunlop locking models.
These basses are unmistakable, visually and tonally. They deliver tones that don’t really come out of the ubiquitous P-Bass or J-Bass models.
The original Rickenbacker-branded rectangular hard shell case is included.
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DETAILS:
- Instrument Model: 4001 Bass
- Instrument Manufacturer: Rickenbacker
- Instrument year: 1973
- Instrument Finish: Jetglo (Gloss Black)
- Instrument Class: Bass Guitars
- Instrument serial number: MI 4076, dated to September 1973 at Santa Ana, CA
- Country of Origin: USA
- Instrument Condition: Good
- Playing Condition: Very Good
- Right-handed
- CITIES Documentation Required: No
- Instrument Weight Imperial: 9.284lbs
- Instrument Weight Metric: 4.22 kgs
- Scale Length Imperial: 33.25 in
- Scale Length Metric: 845 mm
- Nut Width Imperial: 1.666 in
- Nut Width Metric: 42.31 mm
- Case included: Yes
- Case original: Yes
- Case Type: Hard Rectangular Rickenbacker Branded
- Items in Case: N/A
- Consignment: Yes
- Product ID: 190517
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