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I'm still using the one my father bought 50 to 60 years ago, but it only goes up to 10 mm and uses a screwdriver handle, so hard on the palm of the hand. 😉

Or you can use this tool, if you're doing it slowly, it will be very good: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264935588930

The best way to do it is with a router, Chris.

Not powerful enough to be efficient, your pickups will move way too easily. Good trick for guitar pickups, but not for bass pickups, especially if you rest your thumb on them to play. 😉

I'm using this neoprene foam instead of the very very very expensive short lengths sold by Fender, Thomann and the likes. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Longx150mm-Widex20mm-Insulation-Vibration-Furniture/dp/B09KTSNQY1/ You'll have enough for the rest of your life and you can reduce their thickness very easily with a simple cutter and create made to measure durable pickup height foam.

Excellent news!

And here, a young Hadrien proudly posing with my former Leduc MNV6 fretless that I sold him.

Not on fretless, but with the very difficult task to succeed Anthony Jackson with Hiromi and he's very good at it, too bad the end of the video is quite abrupt.

Listen to this excellent cover:

To me, Hadrien Féraud is better on the fretless as he's more expressive and less prone to show off. Thanks @lowdown for sharing these two videos that I saw when they were first released. Too bad I can't find a physical support of these sessions, a CD to put it simple...

This debate will be as sterile as tonewood. Some people believe they can make as much noise as they want as well as some don't believe in tonewood. The funny thing is that those preaching for noise tolerance would refuse to live in such a neighbourhood all year long, it's exactly the same as those complaining about people driving too fast in their street and doing it themselves everywhere else. Strange selfish world we're living in. And it didn't take 8 paragraphs to state my point of view as it was obvious from the start, but @Rich, you were only talking about one venue in peculiar and not in general, which is my speech: Empathy doesn't seem to be a part of your emotional panel.

£2740.40 GBP... Some people have more money than common sense.

It's all about noise, not what you're trying to make me say as it was absolutely not my point. Let me put it another way. You come to this place once in a while, enjoy the noise or even make it yourself, then you go away. It happens to you, as I wrote, once in a while, but the neighbours have to live with this each and every day with other people doing exactly the same as you, so this noise becomes a medical issue for them. This could be avoided if the noise is limited to the place mentioned, by simply using dampening or limiting the PA to what's legal, which is NEVER the case. It's not because it was there first that this is not a nuisance, and your b and c points are pure bullshìt trying to make me say what I didn't. What I'm saying is that if you want to make noise, go on, but respect the neighbourhood without annoying them and if this noise is coming from a pub or a venue, it's their obligation to tame it. Of course, I would never decide to live nearby some known noise makers, being it a pub, a venue, an airport or anything else and then starting to complain as I knew it would be a real nightmare from the start. But some people have not my choice or sometimes discover afterwards that there's a noise maker nearby that was closed for a period, but reopened and then the escalation starts. You know Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes: Does this make U.K. a German property?

Great job, congratulations!

Following. 😊

Of course you have the right to complain, noise above a certain dB level is a nuisance and is simply not allowed. And noise is a health problem as it can lead to serious health issues, stress being the first, leading itself to cardiac problems and neurological disorders. If you like noise, go and start living in a factory with 24/24 7/7 permanent noise, you'll certainly appreciate being in such an environment. Stop thinking you can make as much noise as you want without caring for the neighbours, it's so selfish.

This is the stupidest law project ever. Noise is a health problem, period. So noise makers must contain it within their properties and limits, so they are the ones to build the soundproof barrier, not the neighbourhood. It's also based on respecting the others. If you understand this, you'll live in total harmony with everyone. The freedom of one ends where that of another begins.

For £130 GBP delivered to you in the U.K., you won't find a better combo and it ticks all your boxes @sshorepunk ... it also has a tilting handle on the underside to use it as a wedge. Really the best buy for you. I toured with just this and a fretless in a fusion band (two electric guitarists and a light touch drummer/percussionist) for a year, and was always complemented for my tone by everyone including the sound engineers.

Not very small at all, but it's a great choice for what you want and really cheap:

Here is the link to the mod for the TC Electronic BG250-208 with the speakers I used ... 9 years ago:

This was my mod explained here back then. 😉

I used to own a few GR Bass combos, but all were fitted with 12 inches speakers, they sound quite neutral with loads of power and their ful carbon is certainly the lightest 12 inches combo on the market. That said, the most amazing sound wise combo I have ever played was the Hevos Midget 10, not cheap at all, but simply amazing: https://www.public-peace.de/hevos-midget10-combo.html And it can even handle a double bass without any issue.