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It's perfectly normal to have a few butterflies, it just means you care! It sounds like a wonderful endeavour what you are doing so I would expect the audience to be in good spirits and supportive - go out there and make the most of it! Or answer b - Guinness

Vintage Fenders that fetch massive cash are no more than bolted together 50-year old and off-the-shelf/run-off-the-mill components, and therein lies the opportunity and the challenge in this thread. I've 'built' (in reality sourced, drilled, screwed together, soldered, and set-up) a lot of Fender-alike bits, at last count around 35 basses, most of which I've sold here. Some combinations were outstanding, they're the ones I sold (I've kept two but I'll sell them one day too), others were average, and some were dire. In most of the latter cases I deconstructed them and held on to the parts until I found combinations that worked (and I still have some bits that never worked.....). I love the process, so none of this was a problem for me. But unless you have a lot of parts - especially the wooden bits - when you take an order you won't know whether a combination works or doesn't ahead of time (which is why some Fender basses are magical and some are very much not). If Lull are using aftermarket parts, but through trial and error finding those that work together to produce outstanding instruments, then good on them it's a good business model because I rarely hear a bad word about them (and let's face it, Warmoth quality is significantly above Fender et al so the start point is solid). I have however had the misfortune of buying a lot of basses including eBay bitsas that despite being promising on paper were dire because people do not always go to that trouble (one particular seller who has a lot of bitsas for sale springs to mind). But to reiterate my earlier point, I've ALWAYS made a loss cobbling together and selling bitsas, I enjoy doing it, so it's a loss I'll take, and that there are over 30 basses out there in BC-land that I cobbled together makes me smile (I think I'm going to go back through my photos and put all of them in a single composite photo when I can find the time). But it takes a clever and very dedicated person to turn that model into a business. Easier to think of it as a form of bass altruism that costs relatively little in real terms. Less rewarding in cash terms but hugely rewarding in other ways

I'm hoping that this community will refrain from judgement and support my bravery for openly admitting that one of my bandmates likes Coldplay

I've got two - a JAXT4 - which I've seen similar on Reverb for £10K+ and an NRT5 (a Thunderbird NR) with an oversized body. God knows how much this would sell for. He only made two.

Yeah, but I bet you feel just a little bit dirty though, don’t you?

Pmsl hahahhahahahhaha I literally burst out laughing

I recently went to spend a sunny afternoon in a pub garden watching a bass playing mate of mine’s band. Bunch of 60+ Essex geezers all pleasant enough, helped them set up etc( all fine so far. One of them was wearing white shirt, white slacks and white shoes. There was some banter about him being in Miami Vice, and whether he was Crockett or Tubbs. He replied “so long as I ain’t that black C***t!” Being half Mauritian, so of mixed race and little bit brown I answered in a dead-pan humourless tone “No, I expect that’d be me.” I think that it went straight over their numb-skulled heads. I couldn’t leave as Steve was driving. Suffice to say I won’t be offering my services if they ever require a dep.

It's pure bullshít, that's his left and right hands combined technique, nothing else. I can achieve a fretless tone on a fretted bass too. 😉

There's a very nice Lady Godiva...

I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness

Being on the Oi circuit we have to research gigs we’re offered to make sure no far right or far left bands on the bill, once you’ve played with them - even if unknowingly - you’re forever tarnished with the same brush so to speak.

I can't be around people with views that are hurtful or marginalise others. Happy to have differences and others present their opinion in an informed way. If you're uninformed and following the herd, I'm not interested. I also can't work with people who are so angry and bitter that their view of 'others' can't be shifted.

Your mate is James Oliver and I claim my £5….

I think people should be free to hold whatever opinions they want. But I won’t work in a band with someone who I find to be an objectionable d..khead, for whatever reason that may be.

Yo! Warhead mit Purzelbaum i'd love to hear the unplugged version