It is true that ram pig up any manufacturing effort takes time and planning. One of the main issues is we all want something from the past and, I think, we'd like it to be a reasonable facsimile. Maybe I'm off but I don't want an NR bird with no hardware harking back to the bass's roots. That's no fun! I liked the SG RI because it was pretty darn close to the original look of an EB-3 minus the rotary switch, even though it sounded different (maybe even better in terms of usable tonality).