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Everyone who has received a "duffer" has been unlucky - if you can't manage a failure rate of less than 10%, you might as well give up making instruments and go home.

FFS.

The day I stop looking is the day I die.

If I didn't already have a G&L Tribute LB-100 (which I got for a pretty decent £350), I'd have been all over these. Congrats, it looks great. I think the anodised pickguard looks fantastic, but it's your bass, your way.

Pickups out of phase?

But, you're clearly all wrong and they're no good because they're not made of alder and rosewood...

It's the whole "going to something you don't really want to be at, in order to be seen to be there" thing that really has me scratching my head.

I think you can only have one or the other of those. Maybe if you spoke nicely to a friendly, local garage/bodyshop they might be able to help you out, and be cheaper because it's not an instrument refinisher you're speaking to. But to do so you'll probably have to do all your own surface prep - sanding through the grades, perhaps applying grain filler if the body is a porous, open type of grain. If they're going to help you at all, they'll expect a surface that's ready to paint.

Hopefully some DHL tealeaf won't help themselves to it - it took Thomann two attempts to send me a Sire D5...

The siren song...

Spandex and wig mandatory...

Yeah, if it means a few extra quid each to make the magic figure of £325 then recalculate away.

Where are you gigging on the Saturday night?

Decision does not equal Decision P. I own a Triad and I've tried a Decision P. I've not tried the original Decision but I have tried a Mercalli which has the Split Brick at the neck position. I found the Split Brick to be a smoother, more "polite" sound than the P Blade. They moved to the (reverse) PJ setup because they wanted to - perhaps for more differentiation between the Decision and the Mercalli? Otherwise the Decision is just a Mercalli with a Jazz bomb in the bridge position instead of a Thick Brick. Change both pickups - more of a "decision" to make between the two (pardon the pun).

That's the spirit!

Got any pics?

That is the bridge pickup's official purpose on an SB-2. Nice for a bridge pickup to have a purpose for a change

Maybe update the guest list with people who have committed to pay highlighted in bold or something?

I started too late to even think about "making it" - no-one beyond the Dog and Duck wants to see this fossil make a tit of himself with a bass guitar

Was aimed at Mr. Rosewood earlier in the thread...

Fake news

Average White Band? I'm trying to help!

Heh, someone's got an odd bod 4 ohm cab lying around idle...

Just thinking aloud, but will anyone be in/around Taunton the night before the bash, and if so, fancy a pre-bash pint somewhere?* * assuming I haven't fallen into my hotel room and fallen asleep immediately

A bit of a trek for me but FWIW I'd have been right up for this if I was nearby. You're in a plum spot near a rather large conurbation, I'm sure you'll find a willing tutor. Best of luck.