What do you make of this!

marty · Post by **marty** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:11 am

"It has 22 frets with all the origninal inlay"

Looks like someone miscounted.....I can see 20.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:36 am

He sees 22 because he's still hallucinating from when he did that to his 4001.

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:36 am

Look closer, there's two frets mounted to the bridge cover.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:42 am

I almost feel like getting it to restore it, but I'm sure it will go for a ridiculous amount of $. Then I be looking for an output jackplate and who knows how long it would take to find one.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:47 am

It looks like a Floyd Rose or Kahler type of whammy bridge. Lots of routing underneath.
I wouldn't even do that to a Fender (a Squier maybe).

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:07 am

What a freakn' mess! That would figure to be a post '76 4001. The narrow truss spacing at the body end is particular to '77 to '80 4001s.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:52 am

The guy (who ever owned it) didn't even know how to properly install strings on his bass...and spared no expense on those machine heads!