Beedster

Doesn’t explain the fretwork though 🤔

My first reaction when I saw them was the same, which made me wonder whether HMRC decided to pull it apart on its way in, apparently it can happen?

And what f***ing comedy they are 😆

Agreed, IME the variability in wood is far greater than the variability in lacquer. My preference on a fretless is lacquered maple, although I have an un-lacquered maple that is also nice. I used to be 100% into ebony but am increasingly finding it a little characterless/sterile, while I still find rosewood a bit tame. I must revisit Pau Ferro which I had on a mid 90's 'Ray FL and quite liked

Nice, even looks the part 👍

I have that with a Precision that I keep meaning to look at but I HATE removing Precision PUPs, it's bloody fiddly getting the guard on and off and the wires and PUP back in - and it goes without saying I've managed to separate PUP from wire one too many times - but the reason I haven't done the fix is simple, I never touch the pickup when I'm playing it so the fact that when I do touch the pickup it makes a noise is largely irrelevant. @Duroc17 do you actually touch the PUP when you play?

Crikey that was probably an unlucky typo! Meant to say 'Basschatted', the past tense of the verb 'to Basschat', which describes the processes whereby a thread on a serious topic descends into a form of bass-related word-association/projective test/silliness often involving images from 1970s culture (Monty Python, Leonard Rossiter, Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips) or that bass builder from Surrey and which deviates significantly from that point forwards until someone replies to the original post and stops the silliness...... @Dood I think you may have thought I was obliquely referring to another builder, which I wasn't

This thread has been properly Baachatted for sure, but that comment has made me laugh out laugh pretty much since I first read it. Has the author not seen the luthiery in question 😀

Certainly not from a work device 👍

I imagine he'll keep pretty quiet this time 👍

Brilliant, we've Basschatted the thread 👍

He's an addict, he gets his kicks this way as well as some income. There are people who pretty much rewrite other people's books and sell them on Amazon. They don't do it for the money, they do it because the curious form of status they believe it brings makes them feel good, or at least makes them feel their version of good. This guy's gonna keep on going, he's like gambler or a stalker, the normal rules that apply to people like us just don't apply to his psyche, and there's enough people in hyperspace who don't know his background or who don't care to keep making him feel good

No

I was initially fooled into thinking it was the work of a small-scale/bespoke luthier but realised who (I think) it is when I saw the pics which immediately conjured other instruments built by the same (I think) maker. Either way, should be ashamed of letting that out in to the wild

I'm pretty sure he and I are thinking the same, it's why the headstock was out of the pics