I like the 34" scale Jazz neck with ebony fretboard. Will bring it if I ever am in your neck of the woods
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Yes it is really cool. Itâs on my gold/red Vintera P thatâs STILL waiting for the Les Claypool pickups. The thing has sustain for days due to the bridge. Iâve only used it on one cover so far. Once the pickups come itâs going to get gold frets just for the heck of it.
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New finish
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Very nice.
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Thank heavens I loathe gold hardware and can barely lift a MM. Otherwise that purple sparkle is the stuff of my dreams. 
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Amethyst is literally my favorite or second favorite color, depending on mood, tied with midnight blue 
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- that is gorgeous
- if you read the fine print in the ownerâs manual, you are only allowed to play Donna Summer songs
- Iâm cool with that
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Go big or go home.
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They actually advertised that color late 2020, early 2021, when they showed the Coming colors (available in April 2021) and discontinued colors still in stock.
As the old colors became unavailable, they dropped off the site, but they may have been taking orders for the new colors as early as Jan 2021, but not shipping til Sometime in April.
It is a current model, but not exactly new, considering its almost September, and they should be releasing 2022 new colors, keeping some colors, and discontinuing others pretty in the next couple months.
I wonder if they are about to release a new lime of BFR, or if the Tim C signatures and Joe Dart Jr were this years late BFR release?
I have not checked into the site for a while, I guess I should check.
I usually agree with the hate gold hardware, but after seeing the bass Al @Al1885 built, that I posted here right before ne moined the side, something about a fender P bass, done right, the gold works.
Bit if you are gonna go gold, you gotta go all in.
Hardware, pick guard, pick ups, knobs, strap buttons or locks, strings, and now @John_E âs new thought of gold frets.
I love the bass Al built, down to the bridge and knobs and strings.
I love that Fender red / gold Vintera too.
Otherwise, I am way more a MM fan or G&L ( Leo Fenderâs 2nd and 3rd and final company, in that order) then a Fender fan.
I love that Vintera cuz it, kind of reminds me of that god awful red and yellow Ramones bass that was auctioned off about a year ago, someone posted about on the forum.
So ugly its beautiful kind of thing.
But I am loving what John is doing to his even more then stock (that is not gold hardware IIRC), but same thing John, so bad its good.
Those are my two favorite P basses I have seen to date, and I am sure it has something to do with the Precious Metal Les Claypool pick ups.
As far as the amethyst sparkle MM. certainly not my favorite Stingray color set up, but, it may be the ONLY stingray I have ever seen that Gold hardware works on. (Wait, the moderate use of some gold on Lobsters Mint-O-Ray worked two, but again, mint is certainly not my color either)
That amethyst sparkle seems like somebody wanted to release a Prince signature ray to me.
Others sY it looks like its for Bootsy, but, I think Prince when I see it.
I do like the Speed blue and Chili Red, both with black hardware best from the current and previous years colors.
But these two are still the best
And this too.
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Strangely nice to look at but I reckon Iâd end up breaking something off it pretty quickly 
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@sfadams, there is one of these Buzzards for the low low price of $9,000 at New Jersey Guitar and Bass Center near me. less than 75 made.
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iâve been watching for the new ones, but they always sneak out when iâm not looking.
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This one is apparently âincomingâ according to their FB page. Maybe theyâre going for another batch on top of the original 75?
But ⌠the price 
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Looks like someone chopped the right side of a flying V.
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Theyâll be really silly money for sure. The quality will be outstanding and if youâre lucky enough to pick up a secondhand one down the tracks you just might get it at a reasonable price. Warwickâs really loose a fair bit of value quite quickly.
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Doesnât the wood in the body of the bass help produce the tone? Ergo, wouldnât the tone of a bass like this suck?
I mean, Iâm guessing not, or they wouldnât produce it, but then, does the wood in the body matter at all? If not, why all the fuss over specs of the body?
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There are so many factors in front of âtone woodâ that effect sound that you can shape the sound loads of ways. Tone wood, IMO, only matters if it matters to the sound you are perceiving as the one you want. Strings, pickups, bridge, electronics/pots, preamps, amps all come way before tone wood matters. Does it matter, sure. How much? Zero to somewhat maybe.
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Tone woods and their input into the sound of a bass is another flat wound vs round wound discussion.
As @John_E said there are a lot of other contributing factors to take into account too. With a price tag of over $6000 I would hope it would sing like an angel 
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