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I'm quite partial to a Strat.

800 is too much - let that one go. I do fancy a Kay - it's a pile of junk worth <£100 (though some will try and inflate the price), but I'd like one anyway.

Well, if someone is bumping up the price of something in the hope of conning someone out of their money, then I would happily snitch on them. It's often said that you make your profit when you buy, not when you sell, so if someone has a shop and isn't making a profit then they're buying too high and it's pretty shabby charging excessive amounts to have someone else cover the cost of their mistakes. If they're charging £100+ more than it takes to buy and import from AliExpress then dob away!

Good luck with it. 🙂 With mine, the thread inside the pullers was stripped. The issue with the thumbwheels is that I think there's a lip where they contact the bridge body there; the plastic washers might work. The replacement one I got was badly made and the lid over the puller cavity sat too low, so the pullers wouldn't retract inside. I put vaseline on the screw threads, which makes operation a bit smoother. The guitar neck's one also has issues. I guess there's a reason why the quality units cost a lot more.

That green is just right.

I've got a Steinberger Spirit - that's quite light. Slightly up-market, my Status Graphite wooden necked S1 is quite light.

It's all a question of scale.

That wasn't a real Status body, I hope!

Right - I think it's built! I have to tune it, plug it in, and do a set-up before it's fully finished.

Now that'd be a tragic mistake. Phew; it's finished and now I can just take of the clamps... ...hang on... ...oh bugger!

I think it's what they call Midnight Blue, which has a bit of sparkle to it too. The person who had it before fitted a Zero-Mod thumbrest, which is only "zero-mod" if the instrument already had two holes in it for a pickguard. As it is, the two holes are the white dots you can see in the picture and they need tidying up. Then I got to thinking about a refin and thought duotone/flip-flop/chameleon/iridescent paint might look good; pretty much replicating and enhancing the shadow effect in the photo...

It'd be a Rickenbacker... (Sorry for polluting the thread...)

I have a hankering to have a bass finished in duotone blue/black.

I think Rickysounds do some real Ric ones - dunno if they'll fit or not.

I've had a hankering to put one of those pickups in the mute bay on a Rickenbacker, but they're just a bit too wide to fit.

A good condition Sharfty is worth £500+

No, I don't think so. The Shafty necks tend to be a bit more chunky than the Ric ones. (The old-style truss-rods allowed the neck to be thinner, because they didn't need curves in the rod(s).)

Y'know - I've never thought of putting the control panel on the back! (I have a pickup on a MIM Strat.)

Don't tell anybody, but I bought a Rickenbacker off 6feet7!

I've been thinking of taking up the 5-string...

That fretboard removal was very uplifting!

Wrong kind of slapper!

There's a YT video of someone removing the neck binding.

OK - you got a LOL from me there! 🤣