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My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:01 pm
by marc61
Very interesting bass. It's like 75% NOS, but it has the stain, rusted jackplate, a little moldy by the tailpiece, rusty pickguard screws...otherwise it's incredible.
The Grovers look like they are right out of the box. The pickups, especially the bridge one look brand spankin' new. IMO, the bass was played very little(has some fretwear from using freteaters, I mean rotosounds), and stored poorly. Not positive of what caused that stain but, it just doesn't really bother me. Gonna change the strings to flats, clean it up a bit, and call it a keeper.
Case is non-original. Nice shape, but looks like for a P-Bass or something.
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:03 pm
by marc61
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Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:04 pm
by marc61
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Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:05 pm
by marc61
last but not least
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:06 pm
by marc61
sorry, last one
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:11 pm
by rickaddict
Cool! Congrats, Marc!
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:36 pm
by brycycle
still stunning imo...
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:09 pm
by johnallg
Really nice maple, with flame figuring too. I still say the binding was repaired at one point and then covered with a different sealer (nitro?) to cause that darkening. Love the skunk stripe with the CB!
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:52 pm
by incubus2432
Looks great Marc....nice score!
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:04 pm
by ben_brown
Looks good Marc! Congrats on the StainGlo
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:40 am
by berth
ben_brown wrote:Looks good Marc! Congrats on the StainGlo
I was thinking about mapleburst as name for this color.
Congratulations with this bass Marc!
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:48 am
by marc61
thumbs down stainglo..+1 Mapleburst
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:35 am
by cheyenne
Nice bass. That discoloration sure is a mystery. Nonetheless a very nice bass....It looks like it was packaged very well..
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:20 am
by ben_brown
+1 on the MapleBurst
Re: My 1972 4001 has arrived!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:27 am
by marc61
johnallg wrote:Really nice maple, with flame figuring too. I still say the binding was repaired at one point and then covered with a different sealer (nitro?) to cause that darkening. Love the skunk stripe with the CB!
Very possible. Just can't see obvious signs of overspray. I guess that's the odd thing about the bass. The binding aged, but the rest of the bass didn't? When I tok off the treble pickup surround to put the cover back on correctly, I was in shock. It looked like a brand new higain with the screw bobbins. Impossible. When I tiook the pickguard off, seemed like it was the first time it was removed.
Maybe I can figure out a way to get it to Rio in June, or the latest Marf in the fall for more opinions.