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new guard for da 4000
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:25 pm
by xakattack
just wanted to share the new pickguard i made for my '74. all it needs now is a foam mute and some cleaning and its ready to rock.
before:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294 ... G_0335.jpg
after:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294 ... G_0399.jpg
(sorry, i couldn't figure out how to make them show up in the thread)
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:45 pm
by antipodean
Very nice! I like the older full-size 'guard. And the great relic job on the body should add $1000 to the value of the bass!
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:48 pm
by xakattack
antipodean wrote:Very nice! I like the older full-size 'guard. And the great relic job on the body should add $1000 to the value of the bass!
thats all natural. just the way i like it.
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:15 am
by teeder
Good job, Zack!
I just made a new guard tracing for my 4000 so I can add a toaster up front.
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:39 am
by badeggs
Zack, is that a V63/C64 bridge on there? Or did you cut that tooth yourself?
Nice-looking 4000, especially with the longer 'guard (which they should never have discontinued in the first place - it looks so much cooler).
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:51 pm
by wints
teeder wrote:Good job, Zack!
I just made a new guard tracing for my 4000 so I can add a toaster up front.
So Kev, the 69 is getting toasted into a 4001?
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:44 pm
by teeder
wints wrote:teeder wrote:Good job, Zack!
I just made a new guard tracing for my 4000 so I can add a toaster up front.
So Kev, the 69 is getting toasted into a 4001?
Ye
"S"
I have to figure out what to do for a toaster though. The new scatterwound that I got is too deep. The long magnets hit the bottom of the pick-up cavity.
I need a short pole toaster, or swap this toaster with the one in my '71.
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:07 pm
by wints
teeder wrote:wints wrote:teeder wrote:Good job, Zack!
I just made a new guard tracing for my 4000 so I can add a toaster up front.
So Kev, the 69 is getting toasted into a 4001?
Ye
"S"
I have to figure out what to do for a toaster though. The new scatterwound that I got is too deep. The long magnets hit the bottom of the pick-up cavity.
I need a short pole toaster, or swap this toaster with the one in my '71.
It's tough finding those "shorties". Took me forever to find one....
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:23 pm
by teeder
That's not good news.
"or swap this toaster with the one in my '71." I'm assuming that the '71 will accept a long magnet toaster.
The '72 I had, had long poles.
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:34 pm
by wints
My Dec 71 had the short/recessed poles as well Kev, but I can't remember how deep the cavity was...
Re: new guard for da 4000
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:36 pm
by xakattack
that is actually a faker tail-piece that i cut the slot into and a genuine ric bridge. i couldn't bring myself to modify the original tail-piece.
badeggs wrote:Zack, is that a V63/C64 bridge on there? Or did you cut that tooth yourself?
Nice-looking 4000, especially with the longer 'guard (which they should never have discontinued in the first place - it looks so much cooler).
