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Well, there was something wrong, all right. I opened it up this afternoon. First thing I found was that the resistance on the neck pickup was about 14K. Bridge pickup was open. Turned out that the red/black coil was open, but the blue/clear was fine, measuring about 7K. So I wired the bridge pickup ...

I have a trans green 4004Cii. I didn't care for it because the neck was thicker than my 4001 and 4003 basses. I was going to sell it, but made the 'mistake' of letting the guys in one of my bands see it, and they insisted that I make it my regular bass when playing with them. Okay, no big deal. It l...

Worth considering. I think I'm going to try wiring the pups parallel first. Won't cost me anything and it's easy to reverse.

Oh, yeah, I'm new here. I was looking for info on neck widths and got caught up in a thread from ten years ago.

I have a 1970's 4000 bass with several modifications. The original nut has been replaced with a brass nut, the bridge with a Badass. A neck pickup has been added. The electronics were active, but stopped working a while back. I recently gutted those. All that is fine, except for the pickups. Origina...