Hellzero

For polishing the Delta Metal, I've always used the good old Sidol. If you're still looking for the right strings, the Elixir's are the best suited for metallic fingerboard. Very nice one you manage to buy, even if the preamp has been changed and the pickups upgraded. 👏 I love these fretless Delta Metal Vigier's.

Clearer than this schematic is impossible as everything is exactly stating what it means. Sorry, but if you don't understand it, don't start using a soldering iron or it will end up with a disaster. Go to someone understanding it and the pickups will be fitted in no time, especially as EMG is using connectors since at least 25 years, so there's no need for a soldering iron, except if you are mixing old and new items... The red wire on EMG's is always the + battery wire. The white wire is always the hot output of the pickup. The braided shield is always the ground of the pickup. The ground is, ... well, the ground. The output is where it goes to the next stage, which can be the volume, the preamp or the output jack, depending on what you need or want. The black wire here is the ground of the pickup (= braided shield).

Otherwise, there is this, but it will become quite expensive : http://www.glockenklang.com/en/products/bass_systems/impedance-transformer.htm

If you make a total copper shielding with each parts interconnected and the whole to the ground, you'll be amazed by the silence of the original single coils pickups and the loss of the typical Fender buzzing when not touching the strings. People buying my basses are always amazed by their silence, but it's really simple to achieve.

Calling @Bassassin !

You must be... 😉

This brass (or sometimes copper on the reissues) strip must be soldered to the brass (never copper) plate of the bridge pickup as it's the grounding of the bridge. Check if there's a grounding wire under the bridge if you want to remove it as it might be purely aesthetic. That said, it wasn't centered on the original pre 1962 Jazz Basses as it needed to run between the screws of the damping system, so I guess this one is an add-on to look like the original. It was abandoned when Fender started putting 3 separate knobs (volume, volume, tone) instead of the 2 stacked knobs (volume, tone for each pickup) of the early Jazz Basses.

@BELA, here's a good way to check if your pickups are too close to the strings and therefore attracting them so much they will generate false harmonics as the issue you describe. Simply press your string at the last fret on the treble side and check the gap (distance) between the bottom of the string and the top of the pole piece and then repeat on the bass side. For such a pickup, I would recommend 2.5 mm on the treble side and 3 mm on the bass side for the bridge pickup. For the neck pickup, start with 3 mm on the treble side and 3.5 mm on the bass side, so both pickups will have balanced outputs. If the neck pickup is really close to the ... neck, go for 3.5 to 4 mm. Use Allen keys (as they come in these exact dimensions) to check the gap, it's fast, easy and accurate.

If you open an original Trace Elliot, you'll find a sticker with the date on it. As easy as this.

When music sucks, you've got to find a way to attract the fools...

Vendu means sold. 😉

Maybe a Steinberger-like headless bass could be of some help as thanks to the design the lower notes are more easily reachable. That's a problem a luthier who is interested in challenges might want to give a (successful) try, but those able to achieve that peculiar goal are quite rare.

There's a Vigier Passion II for sale at a very decent price (some may say cheap) in Germany : https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/vigier-passion-2-4-saiter.23562/

Don't try unlined fretless guys... 😉

Maybe it's a mistake too. 🤪

That's why my wife offered me the Le Fay as I've always wanted a sixer fretless with a metal fingerboard. Lucky man I am, I know. 😉

The first generation Delta Metal fretless basses were "lined". 😉

Wow wow wow, an original Delta Metal fretless, that's quite rare. I've owned a few Vigier with this Delta Metal fingerboard and they sound really great. That said I'm delighted by my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block (what a name 🤣 ) that is a 6 strings fretless with a stainless steel fingerboard.

That said, they are not Wood & Tronics anymore, but Pasini, even if they are the same. Don't know why he changed his brand name to his own name.

I'll be back.

There are some round wound 0.018 or 0.020 F strings made by Pyramid, Newtone and Dean Markley, for instance. 😉

Indeed, some awful plastic badly glued...

It's not new...