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Once these hit a dealer, they will probably get marked up severely beyond list ala Ed Roman. Can you say "$6000.00 for a 4004LK"?

I'd love just an Ebony board John...

Mr. Hall has stated in the Ric Forum that he has no intention to release them at this point.

In the guitar section he mentioned also having about thirty "frying pans".

They have been hanging on to those frying pans for a while now....

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".

A 4002Xii ... a 4002 with a modern bridge, no pick guard, quilted maple, ebony fretboard, hb1 pickups, checkered binding, and a bound headstock. Now that would be cool. Sorta like the 4004CII except binding and chrome hardware. I can't wait to get one and add a fifth string.

Well the dream was fun while it lasted. Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Hall.

No disrespect to the 4002's but I'd rather have a 4001V68 FG!

teaser!

C'mon you guys, you werent really writing and emailing John were you???

the new 4004CIIB ...

That looks cool, Jeff. I'd buy one in a New York minute.

I'd rather have an ebony fingerboard. Stew-Mac has the star markers though and the 21st fret.

I used to love the ebony fretboards on my Les Pauls when I played those things, never played a bass with one, though.

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.

...a nice design , too!

Perhaps worth reissuing?

4002xii ..... nice.....