Heh, the deposit on this one was put down 33 months ago, and the balance was paid off ~2 years ago ;)
That's just insane - there's no way I would do that.
Nor me, though it must have been oddly satisfying to receive a guitar that you paid for so long ago that you could almost have forgotten you did it :)
I looked at HairyChris' 2 BMs at the Croydon meetup, they looked unbelievably nice, almost too nice for my grubby mits, so I didn't pick them up...