guess we will all have to wait and see. my guess its the photo....
seller did answer on shipping q

Purdy bass Jeff.  
Looks like Keavin likes it too.
It looked like an Excel at first glance. Nice inlay..the collection expands..and now you'll have an excuse to look at your 'fingers' when you play !
Man, I just cleaned my spectacles, she's wearin a girdle ?
You should have many an hour playing and looking.
 
Gary

My guess is you'll be playng the 6th fret alot from now on jeff. i know I would ;-)
 
graeme

Excuse me for my poor choice of words in my non-native tongue, but Merriam Webster OnLine does give a woman's close-fitting undergarment often boned and usually elasticized that extends from the waist to below the hips. I won't comment on the boned bit, but okay - what's the proper word here?

I'd say it looks more like some sort of long skirt. She could be wearing a girdle underneath though (to hold it all together). We'll have to get Jeff to strip the top layer off the inlay to find out;-)
 
graeme

Sorry Adriaan..The word just stuck me because I havent heard it used in a long time. It is correct in that context.  
That garment seems to have gone out of style years ago around here..either that or the elastic is far weaker than it used to be.
 
G

i think its a long skirt,,,,,,
time will tell

there is now a dragon inlay version available
very pretty

It would be nice if those nipples were LEDs.........got milk???

well i just got this- pretty good delivery
yes caveat emtori- or whatever
there are 1 maybe 2 uneven frets and your eyes were better than mine.. i cant say at this point how badly they affect the notes. need to open the backplate to see how the controls work
may be a master volume and 3 tones- does sound very good though.needs a little tweaking on the intonation.
i looked over the dragon currently on ebay and the frets appear to be better

Jeff, congrats! Worse case, consider going fretless... It would kind of blend with the topless theme... FWIW

jeff, did you sell your (our) persuader?

yes

just wanted to follow up
after going through paypal i was offered a refund upon supplying a trakcing number
so before i did that
i put on new TI flats
reset the string heights and lsightly increased the bow in the neck
aside from 1 fret that was sitting high- ah pliers did the trick with a couple of taps
it actually sounds pretty good and i cant hear any difference on the frets in question
so i am going to keep the tittybass.
it will come in handy now the direwolf has to go back to alembic