Mr38th and Carlaz very cool! Your guitars look nice.
Ta, man! :) Barring the BKPs (not shown in pic ;)), my Gibson is just a stock LP Std in workingman's black. I'd like to replace the kinda chintzy tuners, but it's otherwise a solid guitar which I'll use forever .
The Ric bass -- which I'd load with BKPs if I could! --
is actually kinda nice. At gigs, other bas players always come trotting over to ask me about it! The tuners and pickups are replacements, and the electronics are modded to give the bridge pup more bottom. It looks pretty and plays lovely; the neck is fantastic, and I put only medium-light strings on it to help keep it that way (4001s weren't really built for roundwounds), but as a transplanted guitarist that's kind of a help to me. :)