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This is the case my '73 came in (currently being modeled by my '72):

The outside, leather caps, latches, handle, and lining all seem right...

I just never saw one with a rectangular pocket (always wedge-shaped):

...anyone else got one of these? Sorry these photos are so washed out.

I love the orange lining, it reminds me of my '76 Vistalite:

Wow I've got a bad camera - Blue and Olive badge now Blue and Yellow...

Looks like a Fender "amp logo" case. My '73 also resides in one.

I belive that is a Fender case, that looks like the same case my Fender 75 Reissue Jazz Bass came in, very nice case.

Cool, I'd heard that Victoria (?) made cases for Rick and Fender back in the day...it's a good one!

Can't help with the case, but I dig the Vistalites! My buddy's been recording with these:

Reminds me of the case that my '76 Precision came with.

Hey looks just one I have except my interior is blue. My 1973 4001 came with it!

Heck with the case, let's see more pics of that bass!!!

s4001 wrote:Heck with the case, let's see more pics of that bass!!!

+1!!!

s4001 wrote:Heck with the case, let's see more pics of that bass!!!

Ask and ye shall receive (terrible photos from my awful camera). Sadly I only have a few more on hand:


The CV has yellowed quite a lot, binding is nearly brown in spots...in one spot the finish chipped off and the binding itself is yellowed.
Perhaps a previous, long-time owner smoked like a chimney around it, or it was gigged a lot...
Nice, rounded fretboard, not the 60s-style super-tight radius, but still...my '73s got a fretboard like a 480 - nearly flat!


Next to my '73 (the one with strings). The bass was drilled for a tug bar, but it had been removed and the pickguard replaced (though it is authentic plastic).
The edge of the 'guard that runs above the bridge pickup is cut at a slight angle, and it makes it look like the pickup/surround were installed crooked.


Now with Pickguardian tugbar! The steel plate under the pickup has oxidized/darkened enough that at first I though a later plastic replacement was in there.
This bass has the best acoustic sound of any I've owned, it just growls - and of course when plugged in.

badeggs wrote:This is the case my '73 came in (currently being modeled by my '72):

The outside, leather caps, latches, handle, and lining all seem right...

I just never saw one with a rectangular pocket (always wedge-shaped):

...anyone else got one of these? Sorry these photos are so washed out.

I do.

The '80 4001 I had for ~17 years (bought new) had a case w/ a rectangular compartment just like that - however interior was dark royal blue and the compartment had flap snaps and a pull tab. The inside of the top did not have the same sort of padding as that last red interior of leftbass' however.

Nice basses!

Beautiful basses!!! Oh and I have that case in black but with blue interior and I also have one...exactly like it in tweed with red interior.

Here are a couple of pics of my case the my 1973 4001MG

I think I like the orange case better!!