Even I find that tone of the gold hardware unfortunate with the fin. My God, they could have done something just a bit more special, couldn't they? It would have given me a reason to get one.
And isn't bullion a French freedom soup anyway?
No mention of walnut content either in the text:
"The core of this exceptional bass lies in its “through neck” construction, with the neck and body core crafted from the same rugged multi-ply mahogany tone wood blank for unparalleled strength and sustain. It takes more work to build a bass this way, but the effort pays off in every aspect of the instrument’s feel and response."
or in the product features:
"•Neck-through Mahogany neck with comfortable, rounded profile".
Might be an oversight, but they have done two-ply maho-only necks on modern TBirds before, eg on the Goth mini series. The very first Revs in 1963 had massive maho mecks too, but I doubt that it was a conscious move by them to recreate just that aspect.
