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That looks awesome! The custom decal is a great touch, I love it!

If they did a lefty Mustang at all, I'd be on it by now. I bet it would look great in this finish too! I love that they're doing lefties of most (if not all) of the 25th anniversary models, especially the Jazzmaster looks tempting (even despite the tort pickguard) - and according to the specs it has an alder body too, instead of the regular basswood for that model! Oddly, the video of the JA-60 25th on their website contradicts that though so I'm not quite sure? I love the roasted, figured maple neck and the stainless steel frets too. My only experience with HB so far is the PB Shorty that I bought used recently. It's fun, but the hardware, fit and finish (and especially the fretwork) are everything you'd expect from a €99 bass. I really do hope these 25th anniversary models are better.

Oh how I loathe that 3+1 headstock on a J-style bass

Wow! Forgive me if this has been asked elsewhere in this topic, but I couldn't be bothered to scroll through all 6 pages for the answer. I've never seen that model before, nor was I aware it even exists. Does that have the Kubicki preamp and the 32" scale of the first Urge model? It looks very similar. Not meaning to rub it in, but that looks incredible.

There used to be a Carvin Music Store near me, in The Hague (Netherlands). I always thought they were built-to-order only, but I guess back then they made some standard models too.

Hipshot are awesome! I've been in touch with them too, one of their designers is a lefty bass player who is a member on Leftybassist.com and he has been incredibly helpful to several members with lefty-specific questions. He also regularly sells lefty basses there with testfit Hipshot products, most recently this one. He helped me acquire some Hipshot keychains with cloverleaf tuning keys once that are cool as heck!

Fender Prostitution Bass - to be used exclusively for playing Roxanne. For money. Under red lights. Obviously.

The Ibanez TMB35 could suit your needs, it's an affordable shortscale 5-string with classic styling, simple passive electronics (2x volume, 1x tone) and quality build for the price.

Exactly! Who takes a loud and unwieldy 100 watt tube stack on the road anymore, when you can get an eerily close emulation (or hyperrealistic IR profile) from your Kemper, Quad Cortex or Helix? Marshall has long been out-marshalled by both the modelling and IR guys AND the tube amp guys. Have you heard the PRS HDRX amps yet? They're an incredible Marshall Plexi inspired amp that's both practical, loud and affordable and offers blend controls for internally linking (and blending to taste) of the two channels that you'd normally patch with a short cable at the front of an old Marshall. They're absolutely brilliant. I think for guitar amp manufacturers these days, it's important to have on offer: - good (home) studio tools, i.e. something compact and quiet that can emulate the tones of your classic and modern amps; - loud but compact gear for small club or pub shows; - maybe small batches of your big heads and cabs for the few rocking dinosaurs still out there (guilty!). Marshall were very late to the modelling game, with their Code series, and chose to have these emulate their own amps only (OK, and an American clean, American OD and American high gain model) instead of offering a wide range of models to cater to a wider audience so these are incredibly limited for what they are. I think Marshall may have also misjudged what taking over Eden Bass Amplification would bring them. They made a loss, and had to sell Eden to Gear4music.

Yep, Jeff Kiesel is a bit of a tool. I don’t really like where their design direction went after the name change either, with all the bevels and bland headstock shapes. I kinda liked the LB shape (now out of production) and love the old rounded DC guitar shape. They're very comfortable to play and just have a classic look to them.

Ah yes, in their new Guantanamo Bay Orange finish, of course.

Finished musical instruments were exempted from CITES rules in August 2019 - with the exception of Brazilian rosewood. Ebony was never on the list, it was always mostly about rosewood

Maybe @Smanth?

The Fender Colombian Professional series, with a hidden drug compartment (and another one in the proprietary hardshell case!).

The Indecision Bass: when you can't choose what finish you want, so you just pick them all (i.e. those patchwork basses Sandberg builds).

Status necks aren't made of carbon wrapped around a core material, but rather start out as an outer shell that was shaped in a compression mould by vacuuming it. The core material (foam) is added later and does nothing in terms of shaping or adding to the structural integrity / rigidity Here's a nice example of someone who made a (succesful!) attempt at building his own Status Streamline-inspired bass from scratch: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/headless-full-carbon-fiber-bass.1064945/

They were last year's limited edition, as they do every year, and they were only around as long as the very limited supply lasted. The 2023 model appears to be a Corvette $$ with an ebony fingerboard instead of wenge, a custom 12th fret inlay and what looks like a Macassar ebony top. Which isn't exactly spectacular, they've done several versions of the Corvette $$ already with various top woods. Reactions on the Warwick forum were underwhelmed to say the least. Looks like there will be both a teambuilt version with bolt-on neck and a masterbuilt version with neck-through construction, similar to what they did with the 2022 Streamette. This is the masterbuilt neck-through:

I've used Italia Leather Straps a lot, and think I own around 8 of them - both 2" and 3" width versions. They're great, my oldest and most used one has been with me for around 15 years now and used extensively, and shows zero wear. Currently the ones I use most are my Mono straps though. My Status S2 Classics each have their own Mono The Betty (extra long), and my Carvin DC727 has a Mono Warsaw in grey seatbelt material that matches wonderfully with the silver metallic finish on the guitar.

The fret work looks absolutely stellar! Whoever did it did a beautiful job with great attention to detail. I particularly love the rounded fret ends.

The Sony wireless system and some of the more expensive Line6 systems even have a function to mimic signal loss due to long cables

Quite fond of mine too! Both are German Streamer LX's, the 4-string is a 2002 and the 5-string is a 2003 I think - I don't have them at hand right now, I'm at work. The 5-string was my main axe for a few years. It rarely leaves my rack anymore, but I could never bring myself to sell it. I changed the worn gold hardware to black. The 4-string is played regularly

Bold = still in possession: The Animal AB20/08 practice amp EBS 300 Gorm 2x10 Ashdown ABM300 EVO II C210T + ABM115 Compact Line 6 Lowdown Studio 110 (for home practice and recording) EBS HD350 + EBS Proline 410 EBS NeoDrome 12-150 (mostly used at home, the big rig and the preamps reside in my rehearsal space. Plenty loud for rehearsals, small gigs or as a monitor though) EBS MicroBass II Ampeg SVP-CL Ampeg SVP-PRO SWR Grand Prix

Oh my! I'm loving the CW's, but the S2 Classic with the pickups in the CW positions stands out for me. To me they just look better without a headstock, the shape works really well without a head. Lovely couple!

Sorry, I should have elaborated more (or at all ). I just think the guitar in the opening post looks like a Jazzmaster with a few prosthetic limbs. Which isn't a problem in itself, but I think the various parts aren't exactly a visual match. I can understand that the creator had to work around the limitations of his 3D printing equipment, but they could have done a better job making it visually appealing. Like these guys: Imagine that with a woven graphite neck!