His instructional video is equally rather sad, I watched it the whole way through once and could never do it again. Takes nothing away from what he contributed to music and to the bass in particular, but as you say, a very long way from the glory days......
I've lost interest in vintage instruments, I used to love the mojo and feel of a 60's or 70's Precision, but ultimately they're an expensive - and increasingly a risky - luxury, I can make often equal quality instruments from some carefully selected used parts on eBay 👍
I agree, I'd be hard pushed to describe any objective difference in tone between many modern 12s and traditional 15s, but - and I'm sure there's a lot of personal bias in the mix - I always prefer 15s for the feel (although I'm using a Mesa 1516 so not a 15 alone)
Spot on Brian, it does show two things, firstly how easy it is (or could be), and secondly that people are willing to do it. Be on your guard folks, and remember that vintage guitars = antiques = shit loads of money and shady practices
And me mate. I understand Brian's perhaps not in an easy position, but I'm very keen to learn the identity of the guy doing the faking, after all he could be using feedback on his work from this forum to perfect his work before he starts flooding the market with fakers....
I understood @ped was reconfiguring the site as pickguardchat.co.uk as there has been significantly more discussion of that topic than almost all others recently (although freedomfromamplifierschat.co.uk is also under consideration) 👍