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With all this talk of Marc's 4000 project, I realized that I do not see many others around.

Here a picture of my 75. Come on.. post um if ya got um.

Gorgeous bass Dave....

Tasty looking fireglo on that one

One thing I've never understood about the 4000 is why it has the same basic geometry of the 4001 pickguard, where showing off more wood would be good...

As the ladies might say...ahem! I mean like a 4004, but with a small guard to cover the control cavity (ala the 650 guitars)...

Very nice Dave. I wonder how many in this forum can represent? BTW...does that PU have the .047 cap on it? (I seriously doubt it...)

Ed,

I thought the whole idea behind the 4000 model, was affordability.

A simpler version of the 4001, using a lot of the same parts, but cutting the cost down.

I could be wrong. I am not even sure if in the early 60's, if the 4001 deluxe was issued before the 4000.

I’ll take a picture now, and post it, re the cap.

The 4000 first came out in 1957, long before the 4001. The first years had a differently shaped pickguard.I think that changed in 62 but I am not positive. They did not have the .0047 cap.They did not make many of the early ones.

Morrow, that's true for the 50's, but I thought they had a different mentality for the 4000 in the 60's & 70's. I could be wrong...

This is what I sent out:

Originally the pickguard also covered up the trussrod slots which could sometimes extend inches into the body & it's part of the furniture since.
Keep the pics coming, we don't see enough 4000's.

Here is a pic from 1969 with my first Rick. Wish I still had this
one. It had a horse shoe on it. I will have to search to see if I
can find a pic of my current 4000. One of these days I will get
into the 1990's and buy a digital camera. Until then I will
depend on friends.

Dave , I think that it was only the stereo basses that had the .0047 cap. The tone pot should have a .47 one.

Here's my March 1976 FG 4000. I'm the second owner, & when I got it you should have seen the crud under the pickgaurd from all of the spilled beer that went into it.

Here's what it looks like under the pickgaurd. Note that it's a set in neck, not through.

Here are the pots. No cap on the volume, only on the tone.