This bass was bought by myself new in1999 as factory built lefthanded, I in fact made the scratchplate myself from a blank bought from Allparts UK, as I did not like the the original, the lined fretless neck conversion was carried out by the great Marten Peterson at The Gallery Camden Town, a superb job he made of it too! he also replced the original controls with chrome ones, this intsrument has quite a unique sound and is near mint condition as most of the time has been in the studio or hanging on my wall, shame but that is why it has to go!