BadComrade wrote:It just seems weird that anyone would have a "real" TB3000 with dot inlays, since everyone seems to "know" that they were only made with the block inlays. Although, Tim was selling that one TB3000 (was that Steve's too?) that had the neck set in to the body just like a TB500, so sure... someone could have ordered a TB3000 with dot inlays I guess.
everything i've read about Travis Bean suggests that they did not do any custom orders. i've also heard and read that at the very end of production, after the shutdown and reopen, right before they wrapped it up, the employees were sometimes paid in guitars. and that when the facility closed, remaining parts were bought up and/or taken out by named and unnamed folks alike.
so it doesn't seem at all unrealistic that this 3000 was the one that had not yet been assembled when they shut their doors. like, had they stayed open, this would've been the next one they made. only they didn't. and somebody grabbed a neck that would've otherwise gone onto a 1000S, and put it on this body.
and he made a decision to put the controls in a much more sensible location than they were on the production instruments. i'm looking at every guitar and bass i own... let's see... do *any* of them have the controls located way beyond the end of the bridge? no? maybe that's because it doesn't make any sense to put them so far away from where the player's hand will be...
this is of course pure speculation since i was a little kid at the time, but my guess is that an employee grabbed himself a body and a neck from two different lines, and he had his own idea about where he'd like the controls to go, for it to be more utilitarian.
LVP wrote:If, say, 10% of lions tried to kill gazelles, compared with 10% of savannah animals in general, I think that gazelle would be a lousy racist jerk.