Marvellous phone, bought my gf a new sony, was choosing between z and z1, chose Z since it's basically the same as Z1, just a tad smaller and camera has less pixels. Also Z was a lot cheaper over here .
I got an olympic white Jazz bass body, a 22-fret Moses carbon fibre neck, a pair of vintage noiseless Fender J pups and all the assorted body hardware. Now trying to decide whether to put a hexaphonic pickup on it for MIDI control. I really want to do it but it's expensive and I'm from Yorkshire. :/
I bought a Warmoth 'Dinky J' body, a Moses carbon fibre neck, a pair of Fender J pups with hum-cancelling dummy coils, a pickguard, control plate, Gotoh bridge, Gotoh reverse gear machines, a pair of 250k exp. taper volume pots, and a 500k linear taper pot with an integrated push/pull 2PDT switch, oh and some sweet black knobs.
And I made it into this, which has insane sustain, no dead spots anywhere, and a massively beefy sound when the pickups are switched in series. I'm putting a hexaphonic pickup on it next so I can send an out to a polyphonic pitch-to-MIDI converter.
You're sitting on a high horse, don't you think? 9th* tier, really? Just because someone won't buy / can't afford the best brands, doesn't mean you have to act like a sniffy spoilt rich kid.