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Author Message lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5042 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 8:46 am:    Great price for a Further, though the ad is a little questionable - limited pics and a guy who doesn't know much about Furthers, thought he claims to have bought it new 2.5 years ago: "the Further model was used for Phil Lesh's Bass" here it is. Bill, tgo pace Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 815 Registered: 4-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 4:19 pm:    that's an amazing quilt set. mica Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 7582 Registered: 6-2000 Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 6:26 pm:    Um, I think that's the guitar in the Vintage Guitar ad this month! pasewark Intermediate Member Username: pasewark Post Number: 139 Registered: 4-2003 Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 6:58 pm:    The description sounds a little half baked . . . wfmandmusic New Username: wfmandmusic Post Number: 8 Registered: 1-2012 Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 4:48 am:    Man that's one beautiful axe! davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10525 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 6:53 am:    I tried to match up the size, lighting and angle, but I'm a bit off. It does however look like the same top. The knobs are obviously different. The screws on the tailpieces appear to have the same alignment. I was focusing on the quilt rather than the neck in trying to get the pics close, but looking closely at the Maple neck lams, they appear to match as well. My guess; same guitar, but the knobs were switched out at some point, either by the dealer or the seller. 811952 Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 2131 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 7:32 am:    Or by photoshop, if it's a scam and the seller is trying to make it look different... lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5046 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 4:33 pm:    Isn't the tailpiece a little off-center? hehehehe Bill, tgo 811952 Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 2134 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 4:54 pm:    Bill, you're evil. ;) mica Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 7597 Registered: 6-2000 Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 5:15 pm:    Knobs are like jewelry, people change them all the time. I changed these knobs. But now for the rest of the story... I wanted to show a Further guitar for the NAMM issue of VG. I'm looking through all my snapshots (remember, these are not professional photos), and I find this gorgeous guitar that I know will print well no matter what. I got the ad all done then darn! I noticed the knobs were our black plastic ones. Quite often on custom Further orders, our customers prefer the metal knobs; and given that, I thought that there would be a preference for seeing the guitar with the metal knobs. Since I couldn't change the knobs on the actual guitar, I changed them in Photoshop, by taking the group of four knobs off another Further and placing them over the slightly smaller black knobs. The guitar in the ebay ad looks like it has legitimate wear from a couple years (see the bridge) and besides that the neck looks better in his picture from the angle, it's the same guitar, just with the original knobs. Even though the seller doesn't seem to know a lot of detail about the guitar, he's got the serial number right and apparently has excellent taste