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Yeah, that's actually cigarette / age-related white. 😂 The script is cut through the black layer to reveal the white (now "ish") layer. The truss rod covers are amazingly hard to come by. They're seemingly always missing on these.

Hamer USA CruiseBass cruise bass 4-string Bass with Case - headstock crack / AS IS / Local Pickup Only - Black | Reverb This seems a deal for the right person. Headstock crack, but it's (nearly) all there including the case and truss rod cover. Missing the pickguard. No affiliation of course.

ET update - this just in:

Around 1985 a couple of "entrepreneurial" fraternity brothers bought a case of those with plans to sell them at a local flea market the next weekend. Something came up and they couldn't make it. They got word "somebody" (lawyers, reps, "somebody") had shown up at the flea market that weekend. Confiscations (definitely) and arrests (allegedly) ensued. Terrified and grateful, they threw the whole lot away (other than the ones they had sold previously to those of us who'd considered a fake to be good enough - no, that didn't include me).

Been messin' with Strats (and lots of other branded five-way switches) since 1986 - I have never, not even once, run into a difference. Alway learning!

Got a picture or example? Not picking up what you're putting down.

I find (just like you did) my use of the word these days requires a qualification to let the listener (or reader) know that I know what the word really means and that I am using it commensurate with that meaning. Vapid people make the world a worse place.

Just bought a Gator case for my Les Paul to avoid the giant "STEAL ME" suggestion provided by the conspicuous tan "GIBSON" case. It seems well enough made to protect the instrument and offers enough anonymity for my original purpose.

Win11 uses Windows Key + Shift + S. The screen goes dark and the mouse turns to a + sign. Whatever is highlighted is then placed on the clipboard and also in the Pictures/Screenshots/ folder as a PNG file.

Former Hamer exec. He's legit.

Everyone does know who "Big Sammy" is, right?

Just a (albeit, nosy) point of information: how much is a typical net reset (ballpark)? I ask because of a casual years-long shopping excursion for a really good acoustic guitar. I have run into many that have already had a neck reset (leading me to believe others of the same vintage that have not will likely need that done).

This just in my inbox. The reimagined Gibson Victory. $2,000. I don't hate it.

Exactly the same scenario for me. I got a $49 Sears guitar for Christmas around 1975 or so to see if I'd stick with it. Not much motivation to stick with it as I had no idea how to play it, but I digress. I got to college in 1982 and a soon-to-be fraternity brother had opened a music store. He had a Gretsch just like that hanging on the wall and a hardshell case for $185! Had to have it. Here's the epilogue though. Mom and dad are in their 80's and are starting to (mercifully) clean out closets and give / throw junk away. Mom calls and says she's found "guitar parts" in my old closet. I cannot imagine what she's found. I run over to the house and there is the neck, body and highly modified pickguard of my first guitar. The rest of it (the original trem, pickups and other assorted hardware) has been in a shoebox I've carried with my since college. Around 1985 or '86 we were having a tone discussion (we might have invented The Gear Page that day) and whether the body wood made any difference. I pulled the fake humbucker out of the plywood Sears guitar and replaced it with a tarbucker out of a '73 SG. It still sounded like a crappy plywood guitar. That's why the parts to the Sears guitar have been in a shoebox since '85 or '86. I am considering having Terrapin or Pickguardian make a new pickguard for it just for kicks and giggles. I'll try to post a picture this week and see if your Sears guitar was the same one. It's TSB with a fake rosewood fretboard and remember the scale length is 24".

Cue @The Shark

Are they (whomever strung it up) not just trying to increase string spacing? Not knowing what's under the string, that might or might not be a successful strategy. ETA: the actual bridge appears to be what's used on their mid-line models. This picture is from their BTB805MS:

If you haven't tried it, especially with humbuckers, I'd highly recommend the PTB circuit. One control is a master tone (treble roll-off), the other is a master bass roll-off, all with a master volume. Really helps to tailor where the guitar sits in the frequency spectrum.

Pfffffft. Know your audience. To get Kiz' acquiescence on an exception, there is only one photo subject required to be posted: The difference between 'allowing it' and enthusiastically supporting it! 😂

In an attempt to communicate with any young people attending this thread... For four solid minutes I'm all: but immediately I'm all:

That's an amazing bit of kit, but have you priced shipping it? $$$$ Rates are based on volume and weight. A given volume (typically the determinate factor in shipping something as large as a guitar) will have a minimum standard weight charge. If you exceed the standard weight for your volume, you are then assessed a premium for being overweight. I agree with @django49 that the structure that affords also makes it unwieldy for the typical FedEx / UPS infrastructure and so perhaps more susceptible to "events" - but maybe such a structure could withstand them. We ship tons (literally) of very expensive telecom equipment including very heavy batteries (some in excess of #200 each) all of the continental US. We've logged incredible tales of damage from such a mosaic of stupidity it would fill a book. We have these little cardboard pyramids that get strapped to the top of pallets saying "do not stack" and the pallet arrives with damage and the pyramid crushed. An LTL driver that didn't speak English (increasingly the case) backed into our warehouse wall because he didn't understand when we told him the door wasn't large enough for his trailer. We've had entire pallets of equipment shipped to California go missing only to reappear empty and in Mexico. At any rate, and as others have said, you 'takes your chances.' Read the fine print on the shipping insurance. UPS uninsured pays $99. Insurance rates are pretty steep, but you must prove it was packed "properly," a subjective term. Photographic evidence is absolutely required and still does not ensure the rep will agree with your definition of "properly." Some principles I'll share from experiences in guitar shipping and from telecom equipment shipping: 1. as said above, the guitar cannot move within the case. Permitting even slight movement in the case permits, when the box is dropped, momentum to be absorbed by the guitar rather than the entire package. I type "when" because, UPS, for example states in the fine print a package should be packed such to permit a 3-foot (0.914m) drop. This is baked into the system of conveyors. 2. ship as quickly as economically feasible - the longer a package is in the system the more occasion for mishap. Overnight is absolutely the best way as: a. less time in the system means fewer opportunities for bungling, and, b. at least theoretical attention to priority handling. That said, overnight shipments (we frequently are forced to overnight due to engineering "omissions") don't always arrive overnight. 3. be cognizant of the weekends - don't ship so that the item is in the system over the weekend, especially a guitar. This may come as a surprise, but UPS doesn't unload trucks prior the weekend. If your guitar arrives at a terminal on Friday, it will bake in the trailer/broiler all weekend long and then get unloaded on Monday. Better to ship on Monday so it doesn't have to bake over a weekend. Shipping overnight and on Monday is the best course, again, if economically feasible. The two-day options from both carriers are often significantly less expensive and still provide some relief from the enemy - time in the system. All that considered, would be interesting to get an Uber quote for comparison. 😉 I am not claiming any sort of proficiency or expertise in these matters. These are just some things I've observed over the years.

You're an actual accomplished working musician for crying out loud. They should send you a whole cab just for fans to see it in your backline! Never will they ever get such practical promotion!

I have to confess I never knew there was an ABBA star guitar. It would be interesting to know which came first, the ABBA or Bootsy's Space Bass.

Um, Germany? If I hold my monitor sideways, Belgium? 🙃

After owning 7-watt and 21-watt Fuchs amps, I cannot conceive of how incredibly loud that would be!