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Beautiful fireglo on that, Colin. What a classic beauty!

Let me add my welcome and hope you enjoy the forum!

Beautiful, Colim! Great looking bass.

Nice Fireglo! Congrats and enjoy it, Colin!

She's gorgeous, Colin. Congrats and welcome.

It looks beautiful , Colin . I'm looking forward to seeing it .

I'll bring my old 4001 next Sunday too .

Oh good, I'm interested to see them side-by-side for comparison.

Next Sunday will be Ric night at the jam!

What a gorgeous bass ! Very similar in weight and feel to my 80 4001 .

How do you do that trick where the thing you want to show off is in color and the background is black and white? I need to learn that!

atomic_punk wrote:How do you do that trick where the thing you want to show off is in color and the background is black and white? I need to learn that!

Not 100% sure this is correct because I've only done it a few times but what I generally do is make a copy layer and put it above the background/locked layer, then covert the copy layer to grayscale, then erase over the object until only the background/locked layer (still color) shows through.

Colin's the one in the green playing the brand new Rick ....

cassius987 wrote:

atomic_punk wrote:How do you do that trick where the thing you want to show off is in color and the background is black and white? I need to learn that!

Not 100% sure this is correct because I've only done it a few times but what I generally do is make a copy layer and put it above the background/locked layer, then covert the copy layer to grayscale, then erase over the object until only the background/locked layer (still color) shows through.

That's pretty much what I did, but the other way around. I used a fuzzy eraser around the edges of the bass and carefully traced around.

morrow wrote:

Colin's the one in the green playing the brand new Rick ....

Don't let my glare fool you, I was actually very happy!

Nice pic, Morrow; that turned out quite well!Thanks for documenting a brand new 4003's first time out. Do you have the photo of mine 'necking' with yours?

This must be the one . Most of the pictures had some blur ...but I try to avoid using flash . It's pretty dim in the bar .

I brought my 4001 to compare with Colin's new one and was quite surprised at how similar the feel was between the two . Mine has an old set of TI flats and Colin's still got the factory strings but the weight and overall feel of the necks was quite close . The horns on the body seem a touch thinner on the new ones , and it does have the full width inlays and the walnut headstock wings . A very beautiful instrument . Mine is thirty years old and shows some wear and tear but is in pretty good shape for it's age . The binding has turned yellow and the finish has that warm look they get over time . I love the thing ... it's still a joy to play .

( It might have had some influence on Colin's decision to buy a new one .)

morrow wrote:

Colin's the one in the green playing the brand new Rick ....

Great lookin' bass!

morrow wrote: (It might have had some influence on Colin's decision to buy a new one.)

It was the price & availability of used instruments that made that decision for me.

Your FG had a lot of influence on my choice of colour, though; I was originally leaning towards JG. I love the photo, btw! You should stick that up on the narcissistbook page too.