Installing pickups on a bass like a pro

[Rob]

Wish basses always looked like a grade 6 shop project to me.
Huff's basses looked like presumptuous efforts to disguise a lack of balance.

PS
Didn't Wish get burned out this last year?

[Dave W]

What I find beyond ironic is that one of the cats who were trashing him at the time was Darrin Huff...

At least Darrin Huff can build a functional instrument.

After all these years, I'm surprised no one has paid Huff a personal visit and tried to physically "convince" him to make good. Might not get your money back but a good boot to the head ought to bring some satisfaction.

But back to the subject of exaggerated credentials, after about 20 years on forums, I've certainly seen a few, including one former member here who shall not be named. He claimed to be a luthier working for a custom bass builder, yet the pics he posted of his own work all looked like poorly done parts guitars. A couple of years ago, he left, after 18 years, because an arm injury left him unable to work. Turns out that he got the job because his uncle was a cousin of the custom bass builder, and the uncle was paying the builder to let him work there doing cleanup and chores and allegedly teaching him luthiery. So he wasn't getting paid, the builder was being paid to let him work there. And from the look of his work, he must have learned little or nothing.