The worst case of guitar rape I've seen

[James]

lank

Even sanding down the frets to make it a 'near'(?) fretless.

[Mustang Melx]

omg... was that a real riccy?

[Yarko]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I love the 4001 shape soo bad.

[Reece]

this just makes me sad.

[winterfrost]

damn.....
why people make monsters from good guitar?
why just not to make your own monster+))

[astro]

LOL at the pointy metal horns.

[Haze]

if it wasn't set neck it'd be worth trying to refret it i guess, silly peoples

[gaybear]

amazing. as sad as it is, i love threads like these in the same way i love reading internet meltdowns ala tiedye, etc

[Grant]

It isn't so much that they cut it up as it is that they didn't see it through.

[gaybear]

haha, what on earth would they see it through to?

[Viljami]

trashbin? seldom is found a pic that makes me hurl THAT bad.

[astro]

18 years ago, I had the chance to buy a white 4003 Rick bass for $600. I didn't get it because I was broke. Looking back, I should have sold a kidney...

[Grant]

ANYTHING. Anything other than this testament to their lack of intestinal/testicular fortitude.

[astro]

Maybe with some added wood and some mad skillz, somebody could resurrect this bass?

edit: I mean, it looks like its really just the horns that have been molested, and those could probably be fixed easily, and refinned with a solid colour. Frets can be easily replaced, too.

[SKC Willie]

That really makes me cry.

I love those basses.

[paul_]

Maybe with some added wood and some mad skillz, somebody could resurrect this bass?

edit: I mean, it looks like its really just the horns that have been molested, and those could probably be fixed easily, and refinned with a solid colour.

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I'm going with "no". Playable, yes. Less tossy looking, maybe. A ricky 4000? NEVER AGAIN
The entire body has been reshaped absolutely everywhere, including the lower bout where it's been rounded off on the corners to match the rest of the hot mess.

No one wrecked more 4001s than Jerry Only (Misfits). I remember having an interview with him in a guitar mag when I was very young where he was like "it was a lot of work making a Misfits bass, you'd go down and get the ridiculously expensive Rickenbacker 4001 and then immediately take a hacksaw to the headstock to have room to mount the skull... and then they'd be trashed onstage before long too. It felt a bit wasteful because they were very nice and expensive basses."
Priorities.

[astro]

I'm going with "no". Playable, yes. Less tossy looking, maybe. A ricky 4000? NEVER AGAIN
The entire body has been reshaped absolutely everywhere, including the lower bout where it's been rounded off on the corners to match the rest of the hot mess.

No one wrecked more 4001s than Jerry Only (Misfits). I remember having an interview with him in a guitar mag when I was very young where he was like "it was a lot of work making a Misfits bass, you'd go down and get the ridiculously expensive Rickenbacker 4001 and then immediately take a hacksaw to the headstock to have room to mount the skull... and then they'd be trashed onstage before long too. It felt a bit wasteful because they were very nice and expensive basses."
Priorities.

Since it's a neck through, couldn't somebody just saw off the body sides from the central part, and glue on new sides with the proper shape? A lot of work, and the bass would be far from original, but it could be passable, no?

[matt.dines]

Don't they have thick lacquer on the fretboard?
Hasn't is got a bound neck?
Ricky parts are sooo expensive
and will it feel like a Ricky after?
Sounds like a little bit of a ball ache
for a neck that's come off a body that's been tampered with that much
makes you think have they sanded the back of the neck or summit shit

[Bacchus]

I think it looks good, much better than original. I don't really like Rickenbackers.

[Sublimedo]

I love rics, but I don't think its that terrible. I'd totally use it. but first, I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK!