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Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:31 pm**

Hello.......

I took this high-gain pickup off of my early 1973 4001 - - I swapped in a toaster. Check it out, it has lateral "raised areas" in its top plastic surface. You can see them, one on each side of the poles.

I don't think I've seen that before on a high-gain pickup (or maybe I have, and just didn't notice).

Have you guys seen one of these before?

I realize this is totally arcane, I'm just curious.

By the way, its resistance was around 11.6k, vs. the lower resistance toaster the bass now has.

best - Richard
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Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:37 pm**

Hmmm... looks recent. ???

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:44 pm**

That is a more recent higain, not original to a '73 4001. The 73's had a toaster pickup in the neck position until about November of that year.

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:21 pm**

rickenbrother wrote:That is a more recent higain, not original to a '73 4001. The 73's had a toaster pickup in the neck position until about November of that year.

So that's why it looked so unusual to me...... IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE TO BEGIN WITH!

Pretty funny.

thanks, guys -

Richard

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:55 pm**

noto76 has one of those '90's higains in his '76. great for re"gaining" some lost magnetic reach due to the off the body fretboards.

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:53 pm**

Yup, that is a recent higain.

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