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'82 4001S-LH

'03 340-LH

'92 4001CS-LH

'80 4003-LH

My Oct '92 4003 Headstock excuse the quality of the picture it was taken with my camera phone.

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James - do tell. Bound headstock, bound neck, fretted w/ dot inlays?

Special order? Mid-60s?

Um, yeah... and that super wide "skunk stripe", just what are we lookin' at there, a 4005?

Left to right: '75 4001FL BURG, '73 4001 JG, '05 4004Cii/5 Trans Red, '04 4004Cii/5 MG, '97 4003S/5 MID, '79 4001 FG & '81 4001S Black (not really JG)...celebrating Christmas. Really hot here right now. Oh I could use a little Christmas, right this very minute!

Got the tree up early this year, huh?

Nice line-up.

Yeah, James. Do tell! Let's see the rest of that bass! That is, if others don't mind the stray from topic....

Joey...Wow! James very curious the TRC does say 4001, right?

Flat Grovers and a late 70s TRC, and a bound headstock.

That's a new one...

It looks like it's from the bass in his avatar.

teeder wrote:It looks like it's from the bass in his avatar.

Hmm, now that you mention it, it does. Extra wide stripe, some sort of non-RIC bridge/tailpiece...

So, what's the story on it?

cjj wrote:

teeder wrote:It looks like it's from the bass in his avatar.

Hmm, now that you mention it, it does. Extra wide stripe, some sort of non-RIC bridge/tailpiece...

So, what's the story on it?

Um, ........

I believe James has said it's something that got out of the RIC factory before completion, maybe because it was stolen (I think John Hall was his source on that). It has a different treble pickup than normal besides the Hipshot A Style bridge. I don't know. Looks pretty cool to me.

One thing I gleaned from the soft-spoken Mr. Groves - the picture file is titled '72-HS'