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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...

Theoretically a power amp should not have any volume or gain control... So put it full on when there is one and use your preamp master volume.

Here is the full explanation : It was well documented that the first versions of the Streamer were near exact copies of the NS-Bass. The Spector NS-Bass was designed by Ned Steinberger for Stuart Spector in 1977, five years before Warwick was formed. In the May 2012 article titled "Meet Your Maker: Hans Peter Wilfer of Warwick", an interview with Warwick founder and CEO in Bass Player, the following history is given explaining Wilfer's decision to make copies of the highly sought-after Spector NS-Bass: "'We didn’t see any reason to build Fender copycats, which players could get easily and cheaply from Asia, so we decided to focus only on high-end, innovative instruments.' In the mid ’80s, the Spector NS was tracking well in the U.S., but these basses proved hard to come by in Europe. H.P. saw that problem as a potential solution for the direction of his company and took up the task of designing his own version of this popular, ergonomically friendly instrument. That venture resulted in Warwick’s first widely successful instrument: the Streamer Stage I."[2] At the annual Musikmesse Show (Frankfurt, Germany) in 1985, Stuart Spector became aware that a new German-based company was producing exact copies of his now famous NS-Bass. Spector, along with Ned Steinberger, confronted Hans Wilfer and he agreed to pay a licensing fee to both Spector Guitars and Ned Steinberger in return for being able to continue to produce the Streamer without legal action.[3] Shortly after this agreement was reached, Spector was sold to Kramer Guitars. The new owners had no interest in pursuing Warwick to enforce the licensing agreement and Warwick continued to make the Streamer without any consequence. In 1990, Kramer became insolvent and filed for bankruptcy. In the wake of their financial failure, Stuart Spector formed Stuart Spector Design, LTD. in 1992. In 1997 after a lengthy court battle, Stuart Spector was awarded the trademark and copyrights to Spector and threatened to sue Warwick to enforce the 1985 license agreement.[3] The pending litigation was eventually dropped because Warwick had changed the Streamer design and it was no longer an exact copy of the NS-Bass. In time, Warwick has evolved the design of the Streamer while Spector has sought to preserve the classic elements of the NS-Bass. Since 1984 very little has changed regarding the design, electronics and hardware of the Spector NS-Bass, whereas the Warwick Streamer has evolved into its own unique guitar and can no longer be considered a "copy" of the Spector,[according to whom?] although it still has some of the general shape of the original. This was from PJ Rubal's email, National Product Manager and Artist Relations for Spector. "The truth is that Ned designed the NS curved body shape for Spector in March 1977. This was Ned’s first musical instrument design, and an instant hit. Warwick came on to the scene in 1984 with their Streamer bass, a different version of the now very popular Spector NS. When approached by Spector, Warwick did agree to and did pay royalties (for a while) to Spector for their error. Stuart sold Spector to Kramer after that. Warwick stopped paying, Kramer chose not to pursue them."[4] 2. Taylor, Rod (9 May 2012). "Meet Your Maker: Hans-Peter Wilfer of Warwick". Bass Player. Retrieved 29 May 2018. 3. Spector, Stuart (June 1997). "Body Snatchers". Bass Player (June 1997): Letters to the Editor Pg. 2. 4. "Spector NS body shape and Warwick - What´s the bottom line?". 2004. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

The Wilkinson pickups are absolutely not original like the Zippo lighter-thumb rest or whatever it is.

Very nice, with the first generation awesome Benedetti pickups. Just in case it's confusing, the jack on the table puts the pickups out directly after the 3-way switch (or on some models, it's only the bridge pickup), which means no volume or EQ controls.

Wow, terrific work @Andyjr1515 ! Congratulations, it's almost invisible !

The brown underwear ?

So @Happy Jack is eventually ending with a one string bass ?

That's why I bless Boris and the Brexit. Good name for a band, that said, please put the envelope in the pigeon hole.

Someone did !

To be fair Neanderthals were absolutely not rough, stupid and brutal, that's the Homo Sapiens who are stupid rough brutal destroyers... That said, I've seen, in the late 80's, the guitarist of The Scientists destroying the black early 70's Stratocaster he's been lent by the La Muerte guitarist at the end of the show. I've seen the smile on the La Muerte guitarist's face slowly fading out while watching this Homo Sapiens totally destroying his newly acquired vintage guitar. I would have jumped on the stage and finished the work by smashing the remains on his idiot junkie head. That's certainly why I'm very reluctant to lend my instruments except if I know the person well, but there would be a lot of recommendations and the first would be to wash their hands as I can't stand greasy fingers.

With rockers, you would have got an instant ... fight. I'll get my coat ... like the mods. 🤦‍♂️

Congratulations, there are some mates here that are in a wedding/covers band, so I guess they will propose their services. That said I love the idea of a punk band playing at a weeding. 🙃

There's nothing wrong with a lined fretless but the problem is that you'll end up playing with your eyes instead of your ears and often out of tune, because you'll rely on these lines more than on what you're hearing especially if the rest of the band is slightly out of tune, which happens more than often. 😉 Should I recommend you to listen back to early recordings of Pino Palladino and you'll notice that his intonation is not perfect at all and he's the first to say it... Practice is the only known secret with developing your ears with anything that helps being it lines, opened strings or a strobe tuner (a strobe tuner is better as it's so accurate you'll start hearing even very very slightly out of pitch notes or chords and it will improve your intonation or get you completely nuts 😉 ).

That's why I said to learn the most academic way as for me it's now too late to go back to the correct double bass technique as I'd have to relearn all automatisms linked to the muscle memory (I'm now learning the piano at 56 years old since September with a private graduated teacher, so the classic way and I love it). Furthermore I have never had any issues with the way I play the double bass as I've always been careful with my tendons when it comes to playing, I also can really stretch my fingers easily and I can play what I need to play effortlessly, BUT I wouldn't advise anybody to do so as it can get you into big troubles and issues, hence my recommendation to learn the orthodox way.

My deepest condolences is all I can say.

The 1-2-4 technique is a double bass technique as the spacings are much wider (41 inches scale vs 34 inches scale). That said I use the one finger per position technique even on double bass, which is academically wrong... If you have very small hands, you can use the 1-2-4 technique on electric bass, otherwise take your time, stretch your fingers slowly with warmed up hands (tendons don't like being stretched when cold) and you'll be able to use one finger per fret (or position or case) even in the lower register. You'll also have to give more strength to your pinky as it's your weakest finger. The thumb is a neck guide and you should be able to play without even using it. We all started with this "difficulties" to face and ignoring them might be worst than you might think when you'll make progress, or if you decide to take lessons and you'd have to start all over your technique because it's completely wrong and a teacher will tell it to you within the first minute.

The preset bias and grading valves idea is a way to get people to buy your valves if they want to be sure that their amp will run the proper way, when it's so fast and easy to correctly bias an amp when you know how to do it. I also know that you've done this to avoid people (bad techs included) to put their hands inside a valve amp and die because of an electric schock, which was, hélas, quite common during the all valves items era. Thanks for confirming your valves rebadging and selection system, which is a clever idea (the late Aspen Pittman was a visionary) as you do the good tech job, but being more transparent about it would be a great step forward. That said, I still love the Mesa Boogie 400 and 400+ heads which are still terrific today, just like the Studio (and DC too, of course), the Rectifier and, of course, the Mark series.