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As I like to say, with a wink, these are the best Fodera's ever. 😉 Congratulations, it's really beautiful !

With the way I copper shield instruments, strangely they become dead quiet... And I've done this on hundreds if not thousands electric instruments, even if the theory you exposed is totally correct and I'm fully aware of it, it seems that there's a glitch somewhere in the science facts. Otherwise, there's this solution for these recalcitrant instruments. For U.K. : https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Aero_DBuzz.html For EEC : https://bassmatters.nl/en/1703/Aero-dBuz-Cable

A good watch, no. A fun watch, yes.

All copper shieldings and bridge must be interconnected and then grounded to the output jack "earth" otherwise it's totally useless.

Nope, it's typical for Fender to buzz (not hum here as it's a Precision with a hum-bucker) as the shielding is poor to non existent. And graphite paint is really a poor shielding. I already explained it here :

I was indeed joking, hence the 😉, but even with that, some mandrel to not get it. 🤣

You are totally right and it's something I never understood. I can play without having any extra fret noise, clank or any fingerboard fretless noise, so why can't they do it ? Their answer is always the same : you can't hear it in the mix. Maybe, but I can clearly hear it right now as there is no mix ! Jonas Hellborg has really been disappointing for this and Eric Johnson too as he's always talking about the fact that he can hear the brand of a battery in a pedal, but doesn't hear all his guitar and amps humming like hell in his tutorial videos ! 🤦🏻‍♂️

They were indeed.

The cost is certainly due to the reprogramming of the CNC machine. 😉

Last year, one of my nieces brought her acoustic guitar for a check-up as she wanted to start playing again. The rosewood of her fretboard was almost white, I put two coats of Dunlop 65 that were almost instantly absorbed. The next day, the fretboard was back to a whitish colour, so I use the other well known trick of linseed oil (I don't like the smell, so avoid using it). A single coat was enough to feed the wood and give it the right colour that still is the same today. The other "issue" with linseed oil is that you have to buff it a lot to totally remove any oil excess and it takes time. For really too dry fingerboards I use food paraffin oil that is absolutely safe and the result is always amazing.

Mineral oil mixed with cement, then your fingerboard becomes as hard as concrete. 🤔

I always refer to the Daphne Blue, Foam Green, Sonic Blue, Surf Green, Shell Pink, ... as toilet seat colours... And I love them. I know, I know.

I think that Frosted Martian Sperm was instantly discarded by the R&D. I'll get my coat.

Naturally seasoning wood for lutherie work (what is called tonewood, ... I know) is way slower than you might think as it's 1 millimetre per year, so expect to wait 40 to 45 years before using your beech, but as it's already rotting it would be better to kiln dry it and then impregnate it, like @skelf is doing, to stop the destructive process. Nice piece, that said, and these spalted woods are just terrible fire wood as they hardly heat.

Motley Crue is certainly not a good example... That said, concerning U2 one of my close friend is more than a huge fan and he said that they decided from the start that they would divide the royalties in 4 equal parts whatever happens as long as they play together. That's the very nice part of the story.

Unlined sixer fretless player here, but I've always loved the challenges and playing in the dusty end has become an habit, just like playing chords anywhere on the neck. There's no secret : practice (close to 40 years now). That said I would not play fast chords changes on my fretless the way bebop guitarists do, of course. I've also played a Glissentar for some time and odd fretless short scale instruments too : that helps getting your intonation right. If you want to play chords on fretless, listen and practice some Alain Caron : he is a master at it. Maybe try this : https://isyourteacher.com/bass/teachers/alain-caron/

In hot summer : it's funk !

Isn't it a condo in the US ? Although it should be a flat used as an apartment with a room mate living in another room paying a part of the rent or being an associate in a kind of personal real estate.

I don't agree at all as having lefties, fivers, sixers or fretlesses should be normal in a shop in 2021, not by quantity, but quality. The problem is simply the shop owner(s) as I explained earlier (if you really read the threads, you should have seen it) who only sells what makes huge profits, just like 50 years. If they just understood what their customers want, they would be very rich, but as they just wait and moan, it will never happen. We have here in the village a shop selling only crap at delirious prices. I told them many times that they should have real instruments at decent prices instead and that people have access to the Internet to compare these prices, but they still act like 50 years ago : huge profits only !

Was it their Best Of ?

This is the good point for me with stores or even the Internet as I play six strings basses, which are mainly fretless... So absolutely nothing to catch my eye. That said, it's also the job of the store to sell things instead of sitting and moaning. If they were demonstrating and explaining the pros and cons of say fivers and fretlesses, they would certainly sell some. But most of these shops are run by people still thinking like 50 years ago. And it's exactly the same everywhere where things are sold. The worst sellers are those pretending it's their job : they are unable to know what would suit you as they don't give a sh*t about what you're interesting in and never ask you a single question, but keep enumerating specifications that are absolutely useless for you as it's not what you need and they keep insisting for hours without listening to you, the most important person of the moment, the potential buyer !

Punk rock died in 1976. Spread the information.

Nice work. Was there a discount on screws back in the day ? 😉

And you are right Tony.

Glad that you bought it and that it's fully playable or even better. 👌