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Hi Ben, just look here for headless designed basses as he is still using this design today : Another headless specialist is David King as he only builds headless basses : https://www.kingbass.com/

It's kind of obvious that he simply is a retailer for this unknown brand, which is quite common and not suspicious at all. 😉

Time to learn to read, Mick... The bass was made in Italy, but the seller is in ... London, U.K. 🤦🏻‍♂️

And I had the opportunity to play a BassLab fretless sixer in the early 2000's as Music Store in Köln was an official retailer. It's a bit strange at first, but then you understand the ideas behind the conception quite quickly. It sounded huge with some kind of inherent reverb, but was way out of my league money wise...

Roland started the G-707 (synth guitar) in 1983 and the G-77 (synth bass) in 1984, both with the Stabilisation Arm aka Bow. Jerry Auerswald only started building instruments a decade later. So definitely Roland, @itu. 😉

The Basslab preamps have always been made by Andreas Richter, just like the StepAbout (I owned one and it's a very versatile dual preamp, and expensive). There's a collaboration between the two since the beginning. That said Richter preamps are simply, to date, the most transparent preamp you can find. You can find Richter products here (only official retailer for Europe) : https://www.bassparts.de/epages/61038859.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61038859/Categories/Richter-Elektroniken

Nice work, Harry and good idea to keep basses under 4 kilos, which is something all manufacturers should do to spare our backs. 😉

Don't take it bad @Andyjr1515 but ebony is not as stable as maple when it comes to drying and taking (and releasing) humidity, so you better glue two ebony reinforcements in the neck otherwise this scenario will reproduce itself during the winter. During this very hot summer all instruments I know have been moving a lot including my Le Fay with a stainless steel fingerboard!?! All instruments? No, my Leduc's didn't need any single truss rod tweaking. Strange? No, the explanation lies in the way he's making the necks and the woods used. My main bass is a Leduc MP 628 SF with a slim one piece hard rock Canadian maple through neck, a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and a single action truss rod and this bass never moves. This is a strong alliance of woods. I have another sixer Leduc (HMP 624) with a Macassar ebony fretboard and to prevent it to move, Christophe makes the neck in 5 parts of the very same Macassar ebony and hard rock Canadian maple all glued together, this way the neck is as stable as possible. Check this: His woods are also stocked at permanent same hygrometry for years or even decades and this helps too. In fact, if you ask for an ebony fingerboard, the 5 pieces neck becomes ... mandatory. So, one will ask why don't classical instruments move even without truss rod? The ebony fingerboard is way thicker and ... rounded stiffening the whole neck a lot more than conventional modern electric luthiery approach. It's all about mass or even masses and mastered rigidity. 😉

Woods moving at different speed like ebony and maple. If one wasn't as dry as the other, this may result in this scenario.

That said the terminology used is against the common sense. I think that using correct and non subject to interpretation words like concave and convex will make explanations way easier to understand. 😉 It's just like the front and rear pickups... 🤦‍♂️

Or the trussrod. 😉

Amazing build as usual @Andyjr1515 and some clever ideas too. 👏

You know, it's like the padauk fingerboards...

After more than a year and a half in its company and as there is no thread dedicated to the phenomenal Le Fay basses, I'll start with my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block photographed on the mandatory 400 years old oak floor. Big Block meaning is explained in the specifications, so RHT stands for Right Hand Tuning, CC stands for Crazy Cherry, and CAP is explained in detail here: https://www.lefay.de/index.php/EN/most_recently/news-events There is a QR Code, because the bass as an embedded chip to protect it against theft. First, here are the links to Reiner and Meik DOBBRATZ creations: Website: https://www.lefay.de/index.php/EN/bass_models/overview Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lefaybasses/ Old YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LeFayKiebitzreihe New YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCxNVglUiNZC9uw40NHgeLA/featured Second, the complete specifications (with the price, sorry I'm not showing off as this was a gift from my wife) of my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block: Third, the photos, of course : Fourth, a tune recorded with this very bass to hear the tone of the stainless steel fingerboard, which is between Brazilian rosewood and ebony (one take directly in the soundcard, passive mode, 2/3 of bridge pickup in parallel, tone closed at 70%, slight reverb and Elixir nickel plated strings): https://tonybertrand.bandcamp.com/track/i-wish-i-was-swiss

This fan is dead silent and is a direct replacement : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noctua-NF-A6x25-FLX-Premium-Quiet/dp/B009LEKGGE/

And especially for @LukeFRC, here is the video showing how to change strings on an RHT model, which is fast and easy:

The Dobratz brothers call this RHT for Right Hand Tuning, and the idea is to still have mass behind the nut and thus having a less typical headless low mid emphasis and sometimes too fast attack.