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Gorgeous! I love Birdseye, and definitely need to order one sometime.
On a related note, you mentioned this instrument being "vintage", and apologies if this has been covered already somewhere in the hundreds of pages of this thread, but I'm curious if there is a general consensus amongst G&L fans as to what would constitute vintage, given that the brand is relatively new when compared to Fender or Gibson.
Is it age? Anything under Leo's watch? I know that GC's completely useless definition is anything 25+ years old, which would put that recent ASAT Special I just purchase (awesome, btw!) on the cusp of being vintage, even though it's post-Leo in 1994.
I checked in with TGP to get an idea of what they thought across brands, and apparently there isn't much consensus there, so I was wondering what would "vintage" mean in the narrower G&L world.
While the term "Vintage" is tossed around quite a bit anymore, in the case of G&L's I use it to describe an earlier production G&L. Maybe from 87 and back. Do I think of a bass from 1982 as a vintage instrument? Not really.
I wouldn't call my '89 "vintage," even though GC would. Honestly, I'd be hard pressed to call anything <40 years vintage, but for whatever reason I'd be more inclined to call an '82 L2k vintage than an '82 Fender. Just something about the age in the spectrum of the product line. I don't think it's an easily-definable term, though I get why people try and define it with an arbitrary number.
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I will share a review for sure...I plan on tracking with that option engaged
Thanks! 
Five weeks since making my order for the LB-100 and am starting to get really excited, even though I know it's heading to the dealer from the factory for set up. I am stoked to work on some old school P lines and make that baby hit those classic mids. I am fairly new to bass, and wonder if I should eventually move to flat-wounds on the P? My Fender AEPJ and Lakland long scale HB both have rounds.
Only you can decide that. I have been a roundwound player forever, I like the brighter snappier tone from rounds. I have tried a couple of flats over the last couple years and removed them with in a month of putting them on. I tried one more time nearly a year ago with Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats and I really like them. They sound like rounds to me and they have lasted, the 1st set has been on my P bass for that long and they still have not gone dead or mellow or whatever you want to call it.
I will caveat that by saying I think strings are highly dependent on a persons body chemistry and what works for me may not work for you. For instance, I don't get along with GHS Boomers (among others) they go dead in 2 weeks on me. I know many people swear by them and get great life out of them. Me, not so much.
Anyway your choice of strings depends on what you're after tone wise.
Strings are cheap. Buy lots and try them all. I have two electrics with rounds, and two electrics with flats (both my acoustics wear flats).
That new CLF L-1000 looks awesome. I like it in the Pharaoh Gold Firemist, which I hope becomes a standard finish:
Colors only with basswood and there's nocolor
choices
. Not Icons, Travesties.
I think that if a builder is gonna paint a body anyway the body wood doesn't make a whole lot of difference as long as it's a typically accepted one for that type of instrument. A lot of them are using basswood for bodies.
I haven't shimmed it. Next string change I will, Im lazy haha.
A store I shop at gave me some thin wood shavings I am going to try. Its thin like a veneer. Typically I just use old business cards, really depends on what the job calls for. ive even used those big Triangle fender picks.
