Ein Schotte!!! Willkommen, you direct descendant of Mary Stuart!
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Do you tend to write longish, stream of consciousness posts? Or short ones that are still difficult to understand? Some of your countrymen do, but I'm not giving away names, that I kennot do. 
It's a pleasure to have someone here who - unlike most of us, see the pictorial evidence in the above post -has not served in the American Civil War and/or breathes like Darth Vader.
No pic of the Vic, Matt, how come? G-3 is a good choice, a very snappy member of the family with quite some versatility. And what didn't you like about the original Epi pups in your Epi LP?
Uwe
Hi Uwe (and thanks folks for the other welcome messages)
I've got no "action" pics of the Victory yet as I've only had it (back) for a couple of weeks! It has been an ongoing restoration project since last year, but the weather got in the way of refinishing. The full story can be seen here:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732644 but here is a quick pic of Excalibur:
As for the Epi, I bought it purely on looks but I found the sound rather thick and ill-defined, a bit mushy and uninspiring. I decided to make a thoroughly modern sounding bass in a classic body. So I fitted EMG-HB active pickups (like in a Steinberger) and fed that through an EMG-BQC 3-band EQ system. I also fitted a pickup selector switch, because I found fiddling with volumes to manipulate pickups rather annoying. The Epi had routing in the body up to the switch position, but no switch! Long story short, I have now a Les Paul bass which I believe is superior to the "grown up" Gibson variety in terms of both looks (love that flowerpot headstock) and functionality (22 frets). This is it as it is now (live pic had no selector switch)
Good to be here. I am always on the lookout for interesting Gibson basses, I love their quirkiness, and frankly I love the fact that they're not Fenders
