New old stock 4002's???
Moderators: rickenbrother, ajish4
Warren, if you want a 4002 with HB1's, it's not so hard (not easy either...) Buy a run-of-the-mill used 4003 off eBay and modify it. Have a luthier shave 5mm off the top and re-top with figured maple and rout for 4002 pickup layout (now that the original neck and bridge pickup routs are hidden under the new top), use checkerboard binding, have someone here who owns a 4002 trace the pickguard and send the tracing to Pickguardian, and now all that's left is to replace the fretboard with ebony and, if you really need it, a black strip of binding for the fretboard and headstock. Costly but can be done.
What you can't have is a TRC that says "MODEL 4002"... but you will have an "almost-4002" with a stronger neck and modern truss rods, that can handle all string gauges.
Another idea is to add two HB1's to a 4003 in the 4002 positions, creating a 4-pickup bass that is actually 2-in-1, and a switch that toggles between "4003" and "4002".
What you can't have is a TRC that says "MODEL 4002"... but you will have an "almost-4002" with a stronger neck and modern truss rods, that can handle all string gauges.
Another idea is to add two HB1's to a 4003 in the 4002 positions, creating a 4-pickup bass that is actually 2-in-1, and a switch that toggles between "4003" and "4002".
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The pickups on the 4002 were the unique part of this bass. They were bifilar wound, not to be humbuckers, but to provide two isolated outputs: one high impedance, the other low for direct to the board applications. The low impedance pickups were wired directly to an XLR out, so the circuit on-board had nothing to do with them, by design.
