Living with the Rickenbacker 4003 Left Handed Bass

Finding a clean rickenbacker 4003 left is one of those challenges that keeps southpaw bassists up at night browsing Reverb and TalkBass. If you're a lefty, you already know the drill: most shops have a sea of right-handed instruments and maybe one dusty, entry-level P-bass clone tucked in the corner for us. But the Ric is different. It's a bucket-list instrument, a piece of rock history that looks like a piece of 1960s futurism, and honestly, it's one of the few high-end guitars that actually feels like it was designed to be played, not just looked at. ...

February 13, 2026 · 6 min · Deamoer Strack