Sean

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[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='720657' date='Jan 21 2010, 11:14 PM']I'm just wondering why he needed 5 pens.....![/quote] FFS the man invented, amongst other things, the Precision, Jazz, Stingray, Telecaster and Stratocaster! I'm sure he had a damn good reason for needing that many. And how do you know that they are[i] all [/i] pens? There could be a 0.5mm propelling pencil, a 0.7mm propelling pencil, a pen torch, one of those novelty sliding bikini pens where the bikini slides away to reveal a naked lady and a pen-style terminal screwdriver.

[quote name='leschirons' post='720642' date='Jan 21 2010, 10:55 PM']"And as you can see, the natural wood compliments the colour of your Roger Moore safari suit"[/quote] I have roared with laughter out loud in the office and now I'm going to have to explain. I'm crying. I have visions of Barbara Bach in the desert and a Sherpa van billowing steam

"one day some pretender will have invented "the information super railroad" for the sole purpose of arguing abotut how good this pickup is and they will try to copy it but none will come close save for Lane."

"See that? This time I think I'm a step ahead of John East."

Come on, caption competition! Who's first?

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='720517' date='Jan 21 2010, 08:46 PM']There certainly isn't any shortage of nice basses to buy - even when they are expensive Fender copies.[/quote] There'd be half the posts on this forum ( if that) if we didn't have all these Fender copies.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='720517' date='Jan 21 2010, 08:46 PM']Sean, I didn't mean to suggest anyone was not genuine but only that getting enough people to commit was difficult (and with the new Lakland LEs arriving it may be more difficult still). When the planned LOG bass was a Hollow Body (about 18 months ago) I would have been in if the colour was right but IIRC candy apple blue was the winner and that was a total no for me. Then IIRC there was a revote on the colour and translucent (Gretsch) orange won but Lakland couldn't do translucent orange on a Hollow Body so that fell through. Then it moved to a BG and I might have been in for a 4 string but again I had no interest in the colour chosen (teal green I think) and then that one fell through. At fifteen, they've got a much better chance and I do very much like the translucent butterscotch. There certainly isn't any shortage of nice basses to buy - even when they are expensive Fender copies.[/quote] Dave, I didn't mean to imply you were suggesting anything, just that saying one theory of mine why these things don't happen. I was up for the HB too and was disappointed when it fell apart. I prefer the new approach of suggesting a colour/model combo etc and just getting a yea or nay rather than going to vote with too many options. I must admit to being more a fan of special Laklands than I am of five string P passes though. I do like the Lakland 5 neck though, even with the 19mm spacing.