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Post by dennis1960 on Nov 21, 2016 20:09:06 GMT
Dick Dale, that's very cool! When I lived in the SF Bay Area a local college radio station had a surf show every Saturday night that I'd listen to. Besides all the classic surf tunes they also played this great modern surf/psych band called the Mermen...fun stuff!
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 22, 2016 23:19:53 GMT
My Sir Paul Hofner Bass.
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Post by dennis1960 on Nov 23, 2016 0:06:43 GMT
And I've got the Rick 4001 covered - though unlike Sir Paul's, mine's a black 1983 with triangle fret markers
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 9, 2016 23:08:37 GMT
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Post by dennis1960 on Dec 10, 2016 1:57:34 GMT
Absolutely beautiful instrument Rocky
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 10, 2016 14:01:29 GMT
Thank you Dennis.
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Post by Glass Onion on Dec 10, 2016 15:37:46 GMT
You will have to get some flats on there Rocky like Paul uses.
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 10, 2016 16:49:13 GMT
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Post by Glass Onion on Dec 10, 2016 18:36:19 GMT
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Post by henryj on Dec 10, 2016 18:49:01 GMT
So, Rocky, are you lefthanded. or do you just have a lefthanded Hofner? And if you want to be like Paul, remove the pickguard.
And dennis1960, wouldn't yours be more a 4003 than a 4001? Not much difference.
Sorry to be such a gearhead.
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 10, 2016 20:48:25 GMT
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Post by dennis1960 on Dec 10, 2016 22:37:13 GMT
So, Rocky, are you lefthanded. or do you just have a lefthanded Hofner? And if you want to be like Paul, remove the pickguard. And dennis1960, wouldn't yours be more a 4003 than a 4001? Not much difference. Sorry to be such a gearhead. Hey HenryJ, you can never be too much of a gearhead I just read on wiki that Rick stopped making the 4001 in 1981 and cutover to the 4003. According to what I could find the differences were in the truss rod design and stronger fret wire (which doesn't matter to me as I use flat wound strings). Anyway, my serial number dates it to March 1983 but I still have a 4001 headstock piece so always thought it was a 4001. Maybe it's really a 4003 and they were just using up the rest of their stock of 4001 truss covers UPDATE: This 4001 vs 4003 got me curious so I got my, "The Complete History of Rickenbacker Guitars" book off my shelf and had a look. It tells a different story than wiki. The book states that 4003's were introduced in 1979, "as a model 4001 redesigned for use with round wound strings". The book states the 4001's were in production until 1986 when, "the versatile 4003 replaced the 4001 entirely", so it looks like Rickenbacker was selling both from '79 to '86. Double checked my serial # and it begins with WC which the book ID's as March 1983
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Post by henryj on Dec 11, 2016 13:14:19 GMT
Well, dennis1960, if the headstock says 4001, then it's a 4001.
But that's not unlike Rickenbacker. It seems that they had a guitar model 420, then put a vibrato tailpiece on it, then after a while named the version with the vibrato tailpiece the 425, keeping the 420 model number for the hardtail version. I may be remembering it wrong.
Seems that George's first Ric was a 420 with the vibrato tailpiece. He bought it in Chicago in 1963 on a visit to his sister; George was the first Beatle to visit the USA.
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Post by ROCKY on Dec 11, 2016 13:14:46 GMT
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Post by henryj on Dec 14, 2016 3:02:20 GMT
Well, the pictures on this page have reinforced my preference for shiny new guitars. Shiny is great. I've never been into relic'd.
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Post by ROCKY on Aug 10, 2017 4:36:27 GMT
Update: I just bought an Egmond acoustic just like George's first guitar. Should have it by Monday (8-14) and I'll post some pics of it then. Here's a pic of George's Egmond that he had in 1957.
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Post by brewmaster on Feb 16, 2018 10:49:10 GMT
A photo for Rocky of Hank Marvin playing his Guyatone, back when the Shadows were the Drifters... Jet Harris is playing a Framus Star bass, while Bruce has a Grimshaw.
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Post by brewmaster on Feb 17, 2018 16:16:24 GMT
Another pic of Hank...
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Post by pothos on Feb 17, 2018 23:18:54 GMT
Brew the pics are not working for me.
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Post by brewmaster on Feb 18, 2018 11:23:37 GMT
I can see them, and I checked on a friend's laptop, who isn't a member, and the pics were visible there. Does anyone have suggestions about a site to link photos, now that Photobucket went into the extortion business?
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