The Last Bass Outpost

I never made music to make money. I just wanted to make music with people I like. And try to be a good as possible within the limits of my talent.
Most of the tribute bands are just proof of poverty of creativity. And lots of them just plain suck. (wearing a tophat and a curly wig doesn't give you the talent/skills of Slash for example)

Well that's true as well.  But there is a trend to tribute bands being composed of older musicians.  Maybe not so much trying to make money at it so much as not losing so much money at it.

LOL I wrote a song about my divorce and jammed it with a bud for a few months and the dear didn't have the heart to tell me I totally ripped off that song.  It was a pile of cheese anyway. ... but somehow not as cheese as the original; yikes.  Eldrich had Patricial Morrison on the album before (which serious OG goths love to hate; at least one prominent music blogger loathes it enough to mention repeatedly - especially now that there's been a bit of a resurgance in popularity), and lost her due (in part) to under-utilization and exploitation - she was there for eye candy and it was a bit obvious. 

Not just in Germany. And also if you're ten years younger.

Tribute bands have become a plague among live bands.

Nobody cares about your art - they wanna hear the new Drake Collab.  And as a musician ages they tend to want a steadier paycheque - some of those tribute bands make good cake.

Good catch.  Can barely see the thing.

. Technology is basically the same.

Exactly, all that the usual suspects added was voicing - sometimes accidentally. As well as other guitar/bass focused bells and whistles.

The first Sunn was a Dynaco kit, with a custom preamp in front of it.  The Dynacos had been around for a while but not in a form factor good for gigging and no 1/4" instrument input.

That makes it very likely it is indeed a set neck.

Not 100% certain though.
I built a bass which is nine ply neck through. And I gave it a step heel just for aesthetetic reasons ;-)

So just because you did a silly thing that Gibson has (and IMHO never would have) done this is an uncertainty?

Additionally, I think you would be in the minority re the neck heel step being aesthetically better.  Il ove your bass - it is beautiful, but I never understood why you did that one thing - the only thing that occurs to me is being accurate with the doublecut EB) shape, while adding the TBVird neck thru (which to me seemed like flawed logic/not a good reason - we can disagree on this), but you realise that totally does not apply to the G2 bass situation right?  Why would they do that?  The answer is that they wouldn't.  They never have and there is no reason for them to even think of that like ythere is in your case - a false comparison, but yes, a proof of concept that it can be done.

Anyway, you have to separate what is possible, from the facts of Gibson modus operandi.  They have never done these things, and for a company so steeped in and always marketing themselves based on "tradition" that cannot be easily rationalised away or disregarded.

Another thing that would imply set neck is the neck being just mahogany, (sure I'm not certain we can trust the dubious-looking specs list 100% but assuming they got that right at least, because it would be a selling point - the 9 ply costs more).

Basically at this point, you need to show us where it says it IS a neck thrrough, because all indicators suggest otherwise and despite your not-wrong claims of it being technically possible, the probability is not in your favour by a wide margin.  It is a shame the product specs are completely silent on this point.  I suspect that might be intentional (also "[Neck] Profile: Rounded" is ROFL).

Yeah you can see the neck joint in the rear pic in the link in the OP.  Also no raised middle - another dead giveaway.