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I've just got back from brum; I had an enjoyable day. The car park was full (it's ridiculously small for the venue), so I just parked up one of the streets and strolled down the hill - no biggie. Inside, I had a great conversation with Chris Childs (Thunder bassist - great band!) on the Strandberg stand, a brief chat with Tony Butler (Big Country), a short discussion with Becky Baldwin about custom-made pickguards, and put the world to rights on a couple of topics on The Fretboard stand. And various interesting people on the various stands. The sound levels were just right and pretty much everybody stuck to the hooter signalling the quiet periods - nice one, folks! In one of the noisy bits I got to play a 6-string headless fanned-fret bass on SBC's stand - a really fine, quality, playable piece of kit. As far as buying things, I came home with 3 sets of Ernie Ball guitar strings and two sets of Rotosound's new Ultramag bass strings (they should be interesting), but that's it, so fairly slim pickings. Gripes: suppliers didn't bring spare parts and there weren't any parts & oddments bins to rummage through, and that's about it!

Thanks for putting that right - much appreciated

I find it hard to trust "Fender" auctions & ads.

I would've thought something like that too, if I hadn't remembered the new rules...

I spotted that one today and reported it to ebay (don't expect them to do much though...).

Ah yes - Autumnglo!

Ooh look, that's my bass pedals!

Montezuma Brown. i guess it has the elongated heel at the headstock end too. I've got a push-pull pot on mine so I can bypass the .0047 series cap, like they do on the 4003. I've no idea what those screws are for - it certainly wasn't the stock Ric pickup surround and it doesn't look like where they'd be for a 50s style pickguard.

More Banjo than bass...

Them pesky SansAmps which are the wrong way round!

OK - it's not a real Ric...

I missed that last bit - the company seems to want to insult its potential customers.

This one's trying to break out of its whiteness...

Andthankyouverymuchindeed! 🙂

Regarding the Bite headstock... ...it's not to my taste!

An alternative view.

Nice pair!

As per last year, it depends upon location.

Not an 'eel then?

Ah, I see it - the picture changes as you select the option. It's just slightly less hideous! (IMHO, of course...)

£1k for an Epi? Hmmm.

Likewise - I thought that maybe the headstock was just their advertising/clickbait, but the configurator Fretboard & Headstock section didn't give any options. They only offer the Gotoh folded-plate bridge too. I have to say that I can't see any circumstance under which I would buy one of those.