Well guys, i'm going to make a TF-like claim and say this will be the last guitar i want to buy (acoustic anyway).

I wrangled myself a Guild F412 12 string (at a significantly lowered price) from Guitar Guitar. It is without a doubt, one of the best sounding guitars i have ever played, and is just gorgeous to look at. Turns out the reason the price was down on it was because they case was knackered, but the guy in the shop just gave me a new better one anyway, highly recommend shop!
The bass is a birthday and christmas present for my little brother, who turns 21 next april and has talked of nothing but jazz basses for quite a while now. So i figured i'd just kill two birds with one stone and get him it for both. It's a Squier Vintage Modified Fretless (Jaco Pastorius anyone?). I'm no bass player, but i can tell it's a good sounding one, these Squier guitars are getting seriously good these days.