Midnight Glue?
I'll never like Fireglo
The '01 Mid Blue S/5 from 4 posts up was sold for $3K and now, 9 days later, is offered for $3.5K. But this time with much better pics. Yes it's the same one (fretboard grain pattern).
Original pickups are included. If it makes you feel any better, I once passed on a refinished horseshoe-era 4000 and bought a '78 Fender Musicmaster instead. They were both $300 iirc.
If you need more output from the stock neck pickup, I like Ted Staberow's simple trick - a neodymium bar magnet under the pickup turns it into a monster.
That's interesting! If I buy the lot of 5, does that mean I have to buy 4 more Rics so I can put them all to good use? I keep both pickups on so I don't really need more output, but I might try that anyway.