Hellzero

Just put a new clip connector and maybe some Deoxit in the pots: Your bass will be ready for the next 15 years. 😉

Nope, but it's an old trick used to counter balance headstock diving as used by Bernard Paganotti (Magma's bass player) in the 70's and other bass players too.

Very nice, with a touch of class.

Same for me, a bass bought from this very parish, before Shitbreaks, that came totally unprotected in a too big hardcase without anything inside preventing it to move and, which is the most "delicious" part, with the shipping label sticked on the case itself that wasn't even locked by any means. Thankfully, when the driver presented it to me, he agreed with me that this wasn't secured at all, so he opened it before me and the ACG bass inside was there and intact. I was a bit upset, but the bass was fine. That said, I still love this place. 😉

You know, me, and modern dances...

Buy them at Mouser @steantval, they are the original ones and the price is way lower. I even put the two official wiring diagrams in the link above.

Look here...

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/epiphanies-less-paul-custom-lite-white-the-code-it-s-and-it-s-hard-made-guitar-/1496636425

Epiphanies less Paul, but there's no Paul in Epiphanies, so how could he become less.

Wow, Janek Gwizdala is simply an amazing guy! Congratulations to him and his friend Ian Allison to organise this on the go so fast and on the same day!

That's good for Reverb as I really don't know how they really make money with all these overpriced items... I've sold a very few items there and bought even less, as you have to be posh to buy as everything is overpriced all the time. That said, I once lodge a complaint for a set of pickups I had bought that weren't new as mentioned and after a few photos and text exchanges with Reverb's service, I got the partial refund I had asked. But I had no audio files to send that said @Beedster. To me, eBay complaint management is way worse as they only protect the seller and have always done so.

Subprime crisis in 2008, no?

Oasis?

Maybe it's already been done, but I don't seem to recall it: Ultravax.

The "It's certainly not a big deal and an easy fix" is a sentence I can't here anymore as I've heard it too many times when I had my own workshop (as well as my father when he was an independent mechanic, so nothing new here). At the end, my answer was always the same: "Go on, help yourself, the tools are there." And guess what the embarrassed answer always was... If it's under warranty and you know nothing about electronics, but have done all you could do, which is putting a new battery and it's still not working, do what's been proposed to you by the store: Send it back and get it fixed. This is what warranty is for. 😉

I've been tempted many times to buy the AliExpress Lemmy signature bass. I'll certainly do it one day as I've always found it esthetically appealing and I had a lot of good surprises with these far East instruments. Of course, even if I'm a fretless player mainly into jazz, Lemmy was my first bass inspiration and I've seen Motörhead so many times: It's always been a delight as his presence was so huge and different.

Another trick with fretless is to use opened (sorry, but it's a past participle) strings to check your intonation while playing. Use your ears to play, not your eyes and you'll improve very quickly. I really started playing on a fretless bass something like 40 years ago (wow, I'm that old 😳 now) and I now suck on fretted bass as I tend to make it sound like a fretless... 🤦🏻 You can also add a tiny bit of reverb on your tone, it's great with fretless. Welcome to the family!

Dlido?

It's Lemmy's Rickenbacker signature model.

https://monsterbolts.com/products/socket-set-cup-a2-3-48 But I think these are the right ones: https://monsterbolts.com/products/guitar-fender-saddle-screws-inch-a2

And if it's an M2.5 than the UNC equivalent will be 3-48 or if it's closer to M3, it will be UNC 4-40. Imperial measures are quite a nightmare when you're not used to them. 😉

By the way, there's loads of information about original Kramer here (I chose the parts section): http://www.vintagekramer.com/parts.htm

@Andyjr1515, my 2013 Leduc U-Contrebasse 6 EUB has EMG pickups at the end of the fingerboard and adjustable via a locking screw. A bit like @RonC Safran bass (I owned one, but sold it as I'm Leduc aficionado and endorser).