The 21 Fret 4001 Basses Thread

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 12:10 pm

The very exclusive 21 fret 4001 owners' club. Join it if you can.
Kendall James, I expect to see a picture of your 21 fret 4001 in here very soon.
From top to bottom: Grant Arthur's (January 1971), Gene Schillaci's (February 1971), James Grove's (originally fretless; date uncertain; according to JH, not a genuine Rick); and mine (November 1970, pickguard not original).

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:08 pm

Sergio: what is the sn# of Grant's bass??

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:22 pm

It's KA 002.

vinylrec · Post by **vinylrec** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:00 pm

All 3 basses within a four month period..wow!

I wonder if John Hall has any info on these???

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:21 am

Sergio,
I'd love to have a photo of my bass, or even be able to see it. When I dropped it off last October I said take your time, figuring that since I was going to be in Egypt until August I'd have it around that time, it's still hanging there in sealer in his booth. I've giving him about a month and there's still nothing I'm going to do it myself. (There I've finished ranting)

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 9:33 am

Wow, that's very close to my Mando-Guitar. In reality maybe as close as 4 instruments.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 12:58 pm

What were the production numbers on these models? Can I ever hope to find one ? Or were there just a few made?

vinylrec · Post by **vinylrec** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 1:25 pm

I guess Rick was producing a lot of custom instruments during this time...

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:19 pm

I think they must have been fairly common, at least for awhile. The bass player for Flash used one on the Midnight Special Show in the early 70's and there are pictures out there of the bass, I'll look for them later this evening...

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:30 pm

Here's one link I found to Flash's bass player using a Mapleglo 21 fret 4001:

http://www.dippyrecords.com/psychosync/images/rayonmidnightspecial.jpg
I would post the pic directly but there may be copyright issues. Peter, can you comment on that please?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:20 pm

love that headstock.

vinylrec · Post by **vinylrec** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:15 pm

Bob,
You're probably gonna love this too!

http://home.columbus.rr.com/garthur/headstock.jpg

mikeyesfan · Post by **mikeyesfan** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:53 pm

Just Got the YES Fragile DVD-A...DVD Audio.

It's Sounds Great and in the Extras it has a
GREAT Photo of Chris with his 21 Fret...4001, with Crushed pearl inlays...
I can't seem to copy this picture off the Dvd...

Anybody see this??

tbass66 · Post by **tbass66** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:12 am

nice bass Grant..are those flatwounds you have on it..i have seen alot of flats but never with black silk tops..just curious?

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:50 am

Grant's 4001 has some nice Grover tuners of the 'non-wavey' variety as well. The change to the wavey-style must have happened later that year (1971)...