gbrooding wrote:Any idea if this case looks original?
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Yes, that is the correct original case. Sort of a shimmering rust color. You're in luck about the knobs, for decades those were commonly referred to as "hen's teeth" but the CLF project has caused G&L to remanufacture them.
As to details that only the the earliest basses have, the white switch cap is one, 1/16 side position markers is #2, and the lack of the "birthmark" on the back of the headstock is #3.
Apparently some of the earliest basses and all later ones until 1985 or so had the red switch cap.
Sometime between October 1980 and April 1981 the side dots increased in size, to 3/32 I believe.
Between October and December of 1980 the Birthmark on the headstock appeared. Actually, before that the birthmark was there but was underneath the D tuner.
My inventory of Pre- November 1981 basses is exactly one, and also an October 1980 L-1000 Neck. Photos with datestamps could narrow the blanks, somebody will have better information than I. These are very minor manufacturing changes, I'm not certain anyone has documented them.