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RIC makes a short-scale … … kind of.
Posted: November 23rd, 2025, 7:28 pm
by superheavydeathmetal
I guess RIC is making a short-scale, now. And, this is how they are doing it. This is just so RIC. It serves the purpose, but … I don’t know. Maybe our friends who like short-scale basses can chime in as to whether or not this might work.
I love ya, RIC. I really do. I will never part with mine. But, you really make me laugh/cry sometimes.
https://youtube.com/shorts/EzQwInYFIWo
Re: RIC makes a short-scale … … kind of.
Posted: November 24th, 2025, 6:43 am
by Jeroen
Yep, they're more or less based on the custom shortscales they made for Jesse Keeler, the bass player of Death From Above 1979:
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But they kinda make you wonder why they didn't base it off the rare 1970s 4001 shortscale. I guess the guy really wanted 24 frets, or they didn't feel like doing the custom woodwork required and just took a regular 4003, crammed the frets closer together and slapped the bridge on closer towards the nut
Here's a proper one from the 70s:
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It'll work, but it's probably only comfortable for pick players or people who are used to plucking close to the neck. Fender did something similar with their Rascal basses: big offset body, shortscale neck, and the bridge very far inward.