Recent content by Aceonbass

This is the way 4000 series nuts were slotted until they started cutting these with a laser then fine tuning them with proper nut files.

I’m not capping either body wing. After maple and walnut blocks are added to the body where extra routes are, birdseye maple veneers will go over the maple. There are only 2 screw holes on the front that need to be dealt with. The poorly done bridge pickup route won’t show under the guard and...

I’m having all of the routing filled with maple and walnut and capped with birdseye maple. Then I will route it myself and restore it properly (farming out the refinish). It was meant to be a 4002, and it will be.

The body is routed under the pickguard, which was just sitting on the body. Additionally, no holes were drilled in the body for output jacks. I have most of the parts needed to restore this, but not the skills necessary to fill the incorrect routing properly.

If they were made using current standard materials and body patterns. BUT…the OG 4002 checkerboard bound body halves and ebony fretboards with full width poured mica inlays make them worth far more. I paid 4k for my 4005XC, and thought I’d gotten a good deal. I don’t play it much because of my...

I think this is very likely as 4 of the 6 4002SPC’s that have sold went to TWO people that I know. I asked one of them if something was up, and I gotta “Sgt.Schultz” response.

The “purpleburstglo” 4002 is a keeper, and will remain with its new owner. I’ll be building a wiring harness for it soon as it’s got the same one all 4003’s come with, which include Chinese switch, output jack, and the new tone section wiring. The pickups are indeed the same HB1’s RIC has been...

No. And they don’t have ROS outputs either.

So a good friend of mine calls me and says….”I got the purple one. I hope you’re not mad”….I said whaddaya mean you got “the purple one?!” Then he sends me these…

I suppose these are priced okay, but if they'd at least made them a 30.5" scale like the 4005XC, I think they'd really be a hot seller.

Yes, but the route isn't big enough. On basses with the new DA truss rod, there's plenty of meat in the area to take out the wood necessary. It doesn't make a noticeable difference in tone, BUT..now the ping harmonics aren't dead on the neck pickup anymore. They ring out like they should, and as...

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I doubt the problem is the pickups. Otherwise everyone would replace them. Aside from the adjustable pole pieces and ohms rating, 4001/3 higains haven’t changed in over 50 years. Do you run your effects through your amps effects loop or straight into the amp? How much cable is everything going...

Although it probably doesn’t make a sonic difference, you can see how the wider string spacing on earlier 4004’s results in strings not passing directly over the poles on a standard production 4003 neck pickup. I’ll bet using a 4003 bridge higain bobbin would line up perfectly.

When mixing HB1’s and RIC single coil pickups it’s important to swap the red and blue wire connection points in the HB1 lead or it will be out of phase with the single coil pickups.