Hellzero

All the paperwork is on the side of the seller. The buyer has to pay all the duties, that's all.

I've sold a bass in the U.K. very recently with a Para rosewood (Dalbergia Spruceana) fretboard. No issues with the customs (CN23 correctly filled and pro forma invoice joined) and the bass arrived in 48 hours using FedEx Express.

Indeed, sound wise it's very close to my Leduc Masterpiece fretless basses with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard, not harsh at all, with a bit more harmonics. I'm a huge fan of the Vigier Delta Metal fingerboard fretless basses, which was first offered by Vigier in 1980 as the Arpège fretless bass, and have owned a few over the years, like this very early one, bearing serial number 004 (not mine). But I've always wanted a sixer metal fingerboard fretless, so my wife offered me, last year, the above mentioned Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block (that's its name !).

Just in case, here's how to get the best of both worlds according to the Dobbratz brothers, the two Le Fay basses owners. It's what they call the RHT which stands for Right Hand Tuning, so basically a headless with a headstock. It has become my number one bass. And yes, it's a stainless steel fingerboard.

There's a well known fact missing : Paul McCartney is a total cheapskate, hence buying the cheapest bass in the store. The rest is (extraordinary) history, but this proves that you don't need the most expensive bass in the world to become one of the most acclaimed musician in the ... world. That said, as a Beatles fan, I bought and sold almost immediately a 1967/68 Höfner 500/1 as it was a real pain in the *ss to play (the sound was as expected) with its permanent head diving, even if I tried the Macca strap attachment at the headstock.

He doesn't even know what the pots are doing !?! Worth watching the video. 🤦‍♂️

Just in case :

Freebasing as usual, why ?

What could be lost in translation as I don't translate ? This is becoming exhausting. You don't need to be British to speak or understand English, that's again very frustrating too. I also know exactly what a broker is and how the system is working in the U.K., which is very similar to the way it's working in what you call Europe, forgetting that U.K. was, is and will always be in Europe and mismatching Europe with the EEC. Do I have to tell you that most of the U.K. couriers won't refund more than £100 for a musical instrument whatever insurance you may have taken ? I don't think so as you know it too. So could you please stop this insulting process ?

Don't you think that we have brokers over here in Belgium, @Kev and that taking me for a fool is some kind of stupid sectarianism ? Really astonishing patronising behaviour, especially from a moderator !

Then explain why the brokers offer no service at all after having taken the money... For the OP, the contract has been made with P2Go whose responsibility doesn't go further away than taking the money : there is something wrong in this system.

There's something I really don't understand : Why stubbornly use cheap couriers when you know it will also mean cheap to no service ? If it's cheap, it means someone is not being paid in the chain or nobody is paid correctly, so expect problems. A broker is an unnecessary intermediate who must be paid, so you know where most of the money is going. It's too easy to say don't blame the broker, when the broker is the "person" with whom you've dealt, nobody else, making "him" fully responsible. I've used these brokers a few times, but stopped as it was a real pain in the *ss when you want to have an information or a status and I was fed up by the usual "it's not me, it's them" answer.

Now, I want a fretless vintage white fiver P-Bass ... with a tortoise pickguard, of course. 🤦‍♂️ Excellent job @Andyjr1515 ... as usual.

Exactly. That said as a (non lined) fretless player myself, I seek for the harmonics instead of relying on the supposed position, but I very carefully set up my basses to get the best out of them and an excellent set up always makes a huge difference.

No apologies needed, it's the right place to put this. Now, you just have the explanations about the condition of this bass. 😉

Check this, it's already been discussed here :

Which is the most perfect square as it's the sum of all possible squares. Squaring the square.

Check Leduc or Le Fay work. 😉

Yep, you are missing something. The harmonics won't be produced where they are supposed to be, but further one way or the other as it's a mathematical position linked to the string length and thickness. So, a badly intonated instrument will be a pain in the *ss to play and a pluck and pray for the harmonics.

There : https://www.thomann.de/gb/goeldo_distance_ring_wksrb.htm

10 and more strings are quite common by classical guitars. Check also Turkish music. 😉

For once, my OCD has been useful. 😉

I've noticed that the way I set up instruments (ultra precise intonation up to the highest notes of each string) makes the harmonics jump very very easily, so set up is part of it as well as construction and the type of fingerboard (the harder the more harmonics you seem to get). A neck through bass is supposed to have more harmonics, but I had the opportunity to compare two Leduc Masterpiece basses very close in construction, except the neck "fitting" : the set neck had more harmonics than the neck through. Funnily, my bass having the most harmonics is my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block (what a name, I know), which has a bolt-on Padauk neck with a stainless steel fingerboard (fretless) and a cherry body with a crazy cherry (CC) very thick top. The construction of this Le Fay is interesting too as it's a headless with a headstock and strings posts with a bigger body than usual. All my main basses are sixers around 4 kilos (a bit more or a bit less), so construction or craftsmanship is also definitely another parameter to take into account as they are lightweight.

I sold a high end bass from Belgium to the U.K. I used FedEx Express and did all the paperwork, but FedEx Express is taking care of the customs clearance, and will help you to create the CN23 and the pro forma invoice. So it was picked up at my home in the deep South of Belgium on Thursday the 6th of January and delivered on Monday the 10th in Berkshire, so on week days it's a 48 hours delivery. I don't know how much were the customs duties as it was paid by the recipient.