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This is definitely a yellowed white bass; some hardware I had off because I was changing the strings and setup whilst trying to silence a rattle from one of the truss rods. Glad to read that like the guitars, the basses have user serviceable rods! We'll try the heatshrink tubing as a replacement for ...

I heard talk of a bass amp that had one of those "seeing eye" tubes in it; you know, the ones that glow green and were originally used in radios and TVs to assist in tuning, I believe. I have one in my guitar's lexicon 284.

Does anybody know the name of the amp of which I speak?

I'm surprised ...

Here's this one.

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****, let me try again.

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UD date code on the "rick-o-sound" plate indicates 1981 ...

Here it is!

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I've got an early 80's 4001 with a puzzling finish/truss rod cover/pickguard combo on it. Everything is black!

The finish is black, the picguard is black and the headstock's trussrod cover is black. The binding is white.

What's going on? Is this some weird combination from the factory, or did ...