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The guy who made it is called Mike, so Mick you are wrong.

@Paulhauser The strings spacing at the bridge of a Yamaha TRB-6P is 19mm. I had a few, even some defretted ones that sounded really great, but they were all on the heavy side so they went away.

@Aidan63 : Can you put the link to the webinar as I never received it (from Steve Bailey) ?

I'm going to sell everything that doesn't have 6 strings. That said 3 of them are too heavy for my broken back, so why keeping basses I don't play ?

So you must be accustomed to yourself. 😉

I explained what really happened earlier and the guy oiling a maple fingerboard must be dumber than dumb. 🤦‍♂️

It SimS to be a pickup. 😎 I'll get my coat.

Put them in a pool of mineral oil... 😎

New adjustable ramp including the pickups, called Octavio by Christophe LEDUC, some 22 years ago...

There's some bass appeal in this design, Harry. Congratulations, it looks even more beautiful now that it's finished. Waiting for the soundclips now. 😉

May we team together against those less than 6 strings villains ?

That's utterly flipping stunning gorgeous !

Sounds like one half of your P pickup is out of phase with the other. Try reversing the two wires of the bass side half.

Another vote for the ToneRider set, amazing pickups, as good as Fender Custom Shop or any PJ boutique pickups. It's not because they are cheap that they are crap, in fact it's the opposite, other conventional pickups, and PJ's are the epitome of conventional pickups, are just way too expensive.

The impossibility to advertise it here in case you'd want to sell it. And buy a fake one, they are better than the originals. 🤣

What I see on this photo is clearly some real bad work done by a self called luthier. The previous frets have been removed without any care, resulting in very tiny smalls cracks in the wood along the frets slots and then refretted without taking care correctly of these usual very tiny small cracks. So what we see here is just these non corrected defaults that have taken the filth and humidity. Keep on oiling or even waxing your naked wood, and only naked woods. And if your luthier is telling you the above mentioned bullsh*t, change for a qualified one.

Play fretless : problem solved !

And vihuelas were the Spanish vision of the Italian lute, which itself was the fretted iteration of the Arabian oud, still played today, and which eventually seems to be the original ancestor of all our Occidental plucked and bowed instruments.

Not on a Status or typical reversed working British truss rod... Always check first. 😉

There is also the "new" EBS MicroBass 3, which has a twin channel (clean and drive) that can also be blended... All you need to know is here : https://ebssweden.com/content2/effects/ebs-microbass-3-professional-outboard-preamp/

The Empress Heavy is the closest to your needs... but not exactly. Check this video at 3:42 : Maybe it can give you some ideas, otherwise there are a few twin channel freely assignable outputs preamps on the market, like the MarkBass Stereo Ground Pre (not made anymore), the BassLab StepAbout (still available, but expensive) and the FishTrick Trilobite (quite recent and "twin" Mike Pope FlexCore preamps). I had the three of them and the most transparent is the BassLab StepAbout (twin Richter BassXX preamps) that I still have.

Good news for the headstock as the grain of the wengé is just superb !