Re: My first sixties 4001
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 2:27 pm
It's painful to see such a sweet old bass slightly butchered. The combination of FWMOP "sparkle" inlays and CB always my favorite. If you go with a Jetglo finish, the CB could be restored, probably by cutting in a new wood "binding" to infill the roundover, which would then be double-ledge routed to receive the plastic and celluloid binding, which is two different heights. It's a fussy job, but paint hides all sins. If you want to keep a transparent finish with CB, they'd probably have to take a bit of wood off all around the perimeter, they really boogered it with the roundover. None of it affects the tone, of course, in which case you could just play the daylights out of it. Nice bass, whatever you choose. Have you had a look under the TRC? Sometimes that kind of abuse extends to the trussrods as well.
There are only two sources I know of for the correct CB binding:
http://winfieldvintage.com/parts/binding.html
This German company usually stocks it, but seem to be out at the moment:
http://www.shellex.de/index.php?s=1&sho ... =110000.00
The outer binding layer is just white plastic available from multiple sources.
There are only two sources I know of for the correct CB binding:
http://winfieldvintage.com/parts/binding.html
This German company usually stocks it, but seem to be out at the moment:
http://www.shellex.de/index.php?s=1&sho ... =110000.00
The outer binding layer is just white plastic available from multiple sources.