Not quite the fastest eBay delivery I've ever had. I once bought a selection of used parts to make up a P-bass from a chap, whom no sooner had I won and paid, rang me up and said that he'd pop down and deliver them instead of posting (and he lived in Birmingham, about 100 miles/160km away). Within a couple of hours he was at my door with the parts! he turned out to be the bass player with the UK's leading Shadows tribute band (The Bootleg Shadows) and had bought the parts over time to make a Fiesta Red P-bass,. He'd never got round to assembling it, and then found a complete P-bass in the right colour, so the parts were now not wanted. He also gave me a DVD of his band playing live. He didn't even want a cup of tea or coffee, but got back in his car after only 5 minutes and drove home.

It took me a while to put it all together as well, as the neck pocket was a bit wide and I always planned to narrow it down and re-spray the body (it was a very pink 'Fiesta Red') but in the end I just put it all together and it made a great bass.