Legion

Kyle bought a Pod X3 from me recently - great to deal with, no hassles at all.

'Birdseye' is a naturally occuring figuring in maple so there is no reason that a bass could not get lucky and land a neck with some figuring. I've seen vintage basses with it and obviously plenty without. What are the chances? impossible to give you a number beyond the fact that birdseye occurs in about 1% of maple.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1382385772' post='2251625'] This... Not his dearest bass by a long shot, but still out of my reach. [/quote] Looks like something an elf would use to kill orcs

Not particularly extravagant but I'd love a short scale Lakland Decade with Dark Stars fitted.

Couldnt possibly let an entire year go by without some bass deal related to Clarky - so we just sneaked in a quick trade before Xmas:) Roll on the next one!

I went from a pair of Berg 12's to a Big baby and I have to say I like both. There is certainly a difference in sound though, the Bergs added significant "colour" in comparison to the BF. It was a very nice sounding colour though.

Interesting little tale along these lines - I recently came to a realisation that when I first bought the Pino bass (from a bloke in Dagenham many years ago) it had mismatched strings on it. E/A were Labella 760FLs and the D/G were TI's. It would have seemed immediately obvious due to the lack of silks at the bridge end, but I had mistakenly assumed they had gone so far in their authentic relicing that they had burnt/scraped back the silks to stop them running over the saddles (as some people do). It was only on really close inspection I noticed that the ribbon of the flat winding was wound in the opposite direction on the E/A. Another give away was when the silk at the tuner end started to fall off in a big way and I could see the "coarseness" of the winding - which looked very familiar to my sadowsky flats (which I remembered are made by Labella). So for all those years I had a mismatched set on there and it sounded really good! Recently restrung it with a set of the Labellas, but you know what. I now prefer the TI's a lot more so kept those on. I have to add that as the TI's age they really do improve from the sound when new IMO.

Another BC'er who was a pleasure to deal with.

Paul bought some strings and was as patient as can be (whilst I changed my mind!). Good egg

Bought a pod X3 from Steve - excellent bloke to deal with

I think matched headstocks look better with a rosewood board, and even better with solid colours instead of bursts. But matched + burst + maple = no no for me. The black just looks cheap.