AndyTravis

Yeah. Going to take it to rehearsal on Monday, see if it fits in. Think I have my p/j needs sorted with the BB to be honest.

Hahah. I think a decent refin could be done for about £200. Sparkle refin is about £350...don’t want to go above the entire refurb costing £400 in total.

Well. eBay rummaging. Found this. it was set on a BIN and I thought “I’ll have that” - it was cheap. But listed as needing TLC. Thought it was worth it as a project. It’s pretty scratched up, and has some chips on the headstock. Also frets are worn and need dressing. But it works. So I’m debating what to do, have been talking to @Dood about these as he’s got 2 of them. thinking I’ll keep hold of it as a long term project. I might drop fill the chips on the headstock to prevent them getting worse. Not 100% if I’ll do much more than that. the Machine heads are 3 fender and one defunct schaller drop tuner - so I might get some schaller bmf’s, the bridge has been replaced with a gotoh 201, but I’m thinking a black omega or badass. and then, if I’m using it...I’m thinking treating it to a LPB or Burgundy Mist refinish.

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2019/11/07/allparts-music-corporation-acquires-leo-quan-company/ so, they’ve been doing the omega reproduction for a while. Turns out they’ve bought the original company now. interesting. Maybe Badass bridges will stop being super expensive again.

Pretty good, probably. Will not make you Pino Palladino though, maybe people think it will.

Hahaha. No. I’m asking myself as a dad of 4 if £50 can go walkies with nobody noticing.

They seem to be “desirable” but always come up for sale...weird.

I’m sat on a fence wondering what to do...

My mate Dave Foster plays with them sometimes, either as an opening act or guitarist. He’s one of those musicians and you think “eh?” Just a bit special, and a bloody marvellous and humble chap. Seems ridiculous that the only time we’ve shared a stage was at a mates 40th where we played blues and stereophonic/killers songs. As for Marillion generally, I’m not that clued up.

Looks a lot like the 2003 one on eBay...

Yeah I had one HH configuration. Decent bass - but that same fretless bass was up for sale for about £600 at the time.

I’ve seen a few decent shots of it, it’s a nice metallic. LPB always wins for me.

Wish they’d done white blocks and binding, could’ve been tempting

Excited for a metallic blue. Then the black block inlays ruined it. Just like when they did ice blue metallic last year. anyhow. I’m out. yamaha did that blue a few years ago and called it Shelby blue.

Cobra blue 😉

Looks like moderately competent copy...apartment from the Christmas tree bits.

She was involved in drugs before BB. Think it was a cousin who started her off.

In 2010 she was on a tour, it was plagued with health deterioration and I recall a few shocking videos came out where it was obvious that WH wasn’t at her best. Her band ended up in my shop in Manchester and they were really fed up, their gear was all in storage and they had had issues with soundcheck delays, cancellations across the entire tour. They bought some instruments just to get them through, keep them playing while they waited for the call to say she would or wouldn’t be pulling the dates as they basically travelled around...waiting. Think they played 2 dates in Manchester and she cut one performance short and then was really off colour and gruff/weak on the other. Then the videos came thick and fast, I’m sure there were folks demanding refunds. She was at a real low ebb. Tragic. And I had always admired her talent, and absolutely always fancied her, a very beautiful lady. They're doing one of those really creepy Holographic arena tours in 2020.

Lovely stuff - just sold Pete something. It was nice...I enjoyed the process. I’ll sell him more things I think.

His had a plexi neck too

The one he has above is a nightingale, the crimson one is ugly as sin. miss the one I made...😕

But I wouldn’t listen to your music 🤣

I’d buy that