[quote name='V4lve' post='528400' date='Jun 30 2009, 10:15 AM']Got a couple of questions. Firstly, I have read good things about Vester quitars, has anyone played one of these? Second, is paint removal from a Bubinga body really a sensible option?[/quote]
I've had mine (Thumb Copy) for the last 9 years as a stand-by Bass at every Gig, and I practise on it regularly at home. The Bass itself is well made, brass nut, bubinga body. gives good sustain, nice profile on the neck, nice fingerboard, pretty light to sling round your neck. The only thing that lets it down (IMO) is the active pick-ups, which are VERY active, and pick up all the clicks, thumps and everything else that happen in their vicinity. I once had a Sound Engineer (good friend of mine) running ragged, trying to find out what the constant clicking noise was, coming out of his P.A. speakers. I was holding my watch near the pick-ups, and it was transmitting through everything. With him being a good friend, he didn't pummel me senseless when I told him.
If I was using it as my main Bass, I'd change the pick-ups, but the rest is fine.