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@Silvia Bluejay It has wood on it... it counts! Looks fantastic!

Love that etched look, very striking! @Silvia Bluejay, can you share a picture of the whole instrument.

Got myself into a photography mood... Here are a few more I've just taken of some of the flock.

This guy:

It's clearly a longhaired caveman with his back to you looking at a sunset.

To be fair, if that was on canvas and hung in a corner of the Tate no one would think it out of place!

I've been musing over some of my basses and thought that a thread dedicated to a photo of your favourite bit of wood on your favourite bass would be quite cool! A few minor ground rules: The photo must be a bass or a guitar you own. It must be a photo taken by you. It must show ONLY WOOD! No hardware, pickups etc. Just wood! Minor light editing allowed, no major photoshopping! Name your instrument and the wood (if you can!) Keen to see what crazy examples show themselves! Here is my submission: 'Space Worm'. It is a Reiver Kompakt T7 (built by Alan of ACG) with a dyed Maple Burl top.

just remembered to use protection!

And just for fun, all 3 together!

So, FINALLY, I've taken delivery of this astonishing beast... A 2019 built Kompakt T7 from Reiver Guitars (built by Alan of ACG). Purchased second hand from Reverb and after 12 days in transit it arrived! It's ridiculous. The build quality surpasses everything. I have a PRS Custom 22 and that feels like a Squire in comparison. The top wood (Dyed and Acrylic Impregnated Maple Burl) is, for lack of a better word, savage. There's even a cheeky little worm guy hiding in the grain! The Hipshot tremolo is fantastic, keeps excellent tune and very easy to use. The proprietary Reiver Igneous II pickups are a treat and with the East Active Tone Boost you can achieve some fantastically usage tones. This thing is simply beyond good. Flame Sycamore fretboard, Wenge/maple neck, luminlay side and top dots, the action is incredibly low. I am not one to rant on about something unless it is deserving of a rant, and good god this is deserving! @skelf, you sir are some kind of magician. The Worm (as I am now calling this beast) will live along side the 30.5 6er you built me and the 9 string ACG indefinitely.

Less arrogance makes better music! 😂 I jest, I jest!

@visog, as someone who plays only 6+ string basses, I must ask you - why even ask this question? What concern is it of yours to assume there's no merit in having any more strings just because you don't play anything past 4 strings? That's akin to saying 'I don't understand why you don't like mustard, I like mustard therefore surely everyone else must like it too'. People are different, choice is a beautiful thing. I enjoy playing 6+ string basses because a 4 string simply can't do what I enjoy playing. Extended chords and tap style is far more conducive to a 6 than it is to a 4. And yes, I'm sure there's plenty of 'tappers' who make do with 4 strings, there's also some cyclists that prefer a unicycle. At the end of the day, you might no be able to see past 4 strings, that doesn't mean we all have to be so closed minded! This is always an utterly moot arguement whenever someone has raised it. Do your own thing, I'll do mine, and let's be happy that we're both happy with our choices!

Incidentally, the VAT is your second born. If you have no kids, or only the one kid, the payment defers to testicles.

You have a 1 in 205,552 chance of dying in a plane crash, so you are roughly 700 times more likely to die in a plane crash than you are of winning the Euromillions. Think about that next time you by a lottery ticket at the airport!

They literally say it's rigged right here... if it said "our fixed odds competitions" then fine, but it says "our fixed odd competitions" which is essentially another way of saying "our rigged strange competitions" 100% swerve this!! Our fixed odd competitions give you the chance to win

@tvickey, I have a Mesa Strategy Eight:88. is this what you're after? 562812.