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I bet the Emperor is already on the horn while we all sit here begging for info....

Brian,why don't you just go in during regular business hours and hold everyone hostage until they make you one

A NOS 4002 available in the transparent CII finishes would be cool though.

That pallet of 4002's are stashed away in the RIC underground bunker specially created to withstand Ric forumite attacks.

Personally, I have never played a finer Ric than a 4002. The neck and ebony fretboard are so sweet. Chris is right about the bass being a studio bass. It has and XLR output, along with the standard stereo and mono outputs.

I think Scott may have hit the nail on the head.
I can see it now.
Special limited edition 4002's for the 75th anniversary.

Dave, come to the Winchester confluence. I am bring this if i get it back from Dale.
She should look like it just came off that pallet.

That is sweet-looking! All this talk is just whetting my appetite. I just hope they get released while I still have some inheritance money to burn.

Andrew , if I can track down Blair I will get a pic of his fretless 4002. He tends to bounce between Halifax and Antigonish. It has been his #1 since he bought it new and it is a little beat off but remains a wonderful player.

It has seen a lot of play.

For my money the 4004CII is a better bass than the 4002 ... no ric-o-sound, modern bridge, modern neck, modern truss rods, no pick guard, better pickups, and no mechanical mute.

Uhhhh...did you mean "beat-up" Morrow, or does that phrase have a different meaning up there?!

I'd like to see a 4004CII with checkered binding ... that would be a cool 75th anniversary bass ...

Jeff Rath....that idea is preposterous! ... but I LIKE it!

How about someone doing a photoshop version and posting it here?

...and a pic of a 4002, of course....to keep with the theme of the thread... ;^)

Well Jeff , Blair ( who owns the fretless 4002) is famous for going Jaco when he gets bored holding down a simple groove,

heh.

He is quite a player. I guess I did mean beat up but I think both expressions are used up here.

In all likelihood that pallet of 4002's is made up
of unfinished basses with no hardware on them. J.H.(or perhaps F.C.in this case) would probably not have had more bodies built than he had parts for so there should also be a case of loaded pickguards somewhere nearby. Even though it's his company, I wonder if his dealership franchise agreements would prohibit him from selling any finished insruments outside of his dealer network. If that's the case, he could sell them in unassembled form. I for one would love to build one of these up.

Dane,

I have no problem supporting my local dealer if that's what it takes. I'm sure arrangements can be made for us to work through the distribution network to get one of these.

Even if they are unfinished, imagine their value anyway simply since they're leftovers. That might actually work out better from a collector's standpoint since they would possibly be different than the original 4002's.

Maybe if the 4002's are unfinished RIC might add HB1's and the 4004 hardware, now that could be an interesting 75th bass, minus the pickguards!

There's simply no current plans to offer these- it was just an example of how things cannot be interpreted as absolutes about our production.

You guys can stop writing me begging e-mails now!

I do have the pickups and ebony fret boards but not the pickguards (which wouldn't be hard to make). But I'm not even sure that if I ever made these that I'd do them exactly as a 4002 anyway. Maybe a 4002Xii?