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if the Telemaster I'm getting this week satisfies my Tele GAS, I'll be in good shape. Still want one of those little Eastwood tenors, but otherwise...I'm good. Digging all 3 of my Strats pretty hard, although I might flip one of the Eric Johnson Strats....just a little redundanct. Or just put different pickups in and see what I think, vary the palette a bit.

I freaking love my main player, the Ibanez BTB676. Especially after I switched out the pups for Nordstrand Dual coils and dropped in a Nordy 3band preamp as well. Mostly use them in single coil mode and it SLAYS.

Love the tight 35" low B, but I always wonder how the Dingwall ultra huge scale low B feels. I'm much more interested in the tension of the low B under my fingers than I am with the sound so much.

I also have a Fender Frankenstein P-Bass that I put together. It started out life as a Highway One Sunburst, but then a tug bar, pickup and bridge covers were added. Dropped in a '61 re-issue p-pup and switched the neck out for a real deal '75 precision neck. I relic'ed the body myself as well as re-fretting the neck (some douche did a horrible de-fret job) and carving a new ebony nut. This thing growls for DAYS.

I really want a fretless (a Tony Franklin replica which I plan to build from the ground up) and a five string (probably a G&L L2K5) for the stable. Then that is it for basses...unless I get a backup for my BTB, but that'd be a long while off.

I got an Italia Modena recently. Gonna play my second gig with it tonight, it's a sweet guitar, love the sound. The only things I could think of to improve on it would be a Bigsby, and a switching setup like my Kawai has (seperate on/off switch for each pickup, as well as a universal phase select).