I'm playing a 2009 Eastman 815v that I got from an old friend and our son is playing a 2019 Northfield NFS-F5. The NF was an impulse buy not long ago because the Eastman seriously needs a refret and I came across what felt like a good deal. They're both pretty nice.
Between the months long wait (and it's not "take a number" and we'll call - you leave the instrument sit there) at the best guys around here and the eye-popping prices being charged right now (plus actually having done a lot of guitar/bass refrets myself), I'm going to dive in and do it myself. I figure it's going to, effectively, knock a few hundred off what I paid for the NF. I just need to allow time to get it right and not feel rushed, because I know how that can turn out... (Like me, my tools are old and dull, so going fast is almost certain to end in tears
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Yeah, well, Herr JSB is pretty well considered to be the peak of that period of music. Glad we pulled it off and kept the feel, even though it was written about