Ooh this is cool and pretty.
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B - E - A - Utiful!
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I dig the body on it but you and I have some way different ideas on headstocks (after the jazzmaster hybrid thing yesterday). Congrats though. I know you’ve been GASing for one of these for awhile.
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Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks.
Best of luck, Howard. The heart wants what the heart wants. 
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It brought to mind “MacArthur Park”. 
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I just finished cleaning, oiling, and tuning my BB up and had it on the kitchen table where the sun hit it. I had to grab a picture. This red is so gorgeous in real light.
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Yeah I saw a few yesterday and damn.
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Took my friend and bandmate guitar shopping and as always saw some interesting basses.
A Michael Tobias, a couple Elricks, and a Sugi:
Fbass:
Nice RBX for @Al1885:
A sugar-frosted Jabba next to a couple gorgeous Sugi for @MikeC and @joergkutter:
A couple Acacias and an Alembic, some Elricks; also some junky-looking $30k Fenders:
A couple nice Patitucci’s:
Finally got to see a BB734A in red, and it is indeed gorgeous:
TRBX604FM in the new Indigo Blue:
Cute display of a couple of the ESP BanG Dream! Roselia models, in both full size (right) and mini (left):
ESP being ESP, always dug these, an Edwards IKÜZÖNE:
Some more nice Edwards:
All in all a good day. I left out all the usuals like Atelier Z and so on.
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Man, some gorgeous basses there - what a bass El Dorado 
Well, nope 
Amongst all the beautiful basses they make, apparently occasionally they make a dud as well (gingerbread bass needs to go into the “bursts you hate” thread 
)
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Lol yes. The effect was nicer in person but really… not good.
The Sugi’s next to it were the real stars there. Totally gorgeous.
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And it looks like you wandered into the 5-string section there (brave of you!). ALL of those basses in those shots (Mayones/Sugi et al.) are fivers 
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What store was this Howard?
That F bass 6 is wowzers!!!
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It’s the overall vibe — gorgeous finishes, materials and build quality — that attracts the eye. 
I look past the one obvious mistake. 
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That was across about seven different stores but the Mayones and Sugis were in Kurosawa.
Yeah that’s weird, however there’s some 4’s just to the right of the larger shot.
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I actually got in trouble for taking that shot, I hadn’t seen he “no photos” sign in that shop. Worth it to get hat one though, nice Fbass.
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I’ve seen this sugar-sprinkled finish treatment before. In fact, this finish was suggested to me by…someone. I politely but emphatically shot down that notion immediately.
I’d bet the farm that the build quality of that frosted Mayones is superb. So the verb “make” is a tad off-bass. The finish, however, is an unfortunate choice in my opinion.
That said, apparently, from what I’ve been told and photos that have been shared with me, there are more than a few guitarists around the world who dig this finish treatment. Better them than me. 
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I’ll say this, it stood out and was still clearly on-brand. I was all the way across the room when I said “Hey, check out that funky Mayones.”
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Yeah… it’s pretty gingerbread.
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