I don't want to hijack the thread, so i'll start and end with, that Cali is seriously cool. Great job all around. Todd - great to see you here in the forum. I had a CO done a couple years ago through BCRGreg. You guys in the shop knocked it out of the park, plain and simple. Every CO i've seen since then has been just as kewl (the "Tiger Eye" Tally, the black quilt-top12 string standard bass, the red SS2 with tumbling Boomers, the Impact bass, etc...) You folks have done a lot of great work, and you should be very proud of the legacy you've created. We all hope that the status on the Hamer brand will change (i'm still in denial...), but in the mean time, we have a lot of killer guitars out here thanks to you, Mike, Tom, Gary, David, and i'm sure others that i've missed. Thank you all. And that Cali is seriously cool.