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Funny, because the Just Intonation tuning sounds perfect to my ears as there are no more notes wobbling. To my ears it's a delight, but it's something I know for as long as I can remember. Next Thursday I'm starting to learn the piano (which is the epitome of Equal Temperament tuning) : wish me luck as I think the intervals will hurt my ears. My teacher has perfect pitch, so it will be great fun. That said I know a piano tuner who tunes the pianos his way (he's a master conservatory singer) and it's closer to the Just Intonation than the Equal Temperament.

Very good catch @spacecowboy, these early Zak-Mayones basses were, for sure, Warwick copies, but at the time, they were better than the original. As @LukeFRC noticed, the structure of the neck wood looks like walnut (bete) indeed. The stripes are certainly wenge just like the fretboard. If you look here, it seems right except for the fingerboard mentioned as palisander which means rosewood, but is clearly not. And bodo, which other name is boire (another wood close to the afzelia) is maybe the headstock veneer... For the record, loads of Jerzy Drozd basses have an etimoe, close to afzelia (Warwick filiation again) without being one, body.

Don't let me in.

Check just before, here is what you asked for @Nail Soup !

Here's the most interesting video concerning the difference between 4 ways to tune a guitar (and also microtonal guitar) including the Equal Temperament and the Just Intonation. If you don't want to hear without knowing what is what, go straight to 3:32 and you'll get all the explanations needed. It's a part of a Bach piece, by the way. Check this YouTube channel for microtonal guitar, it's a gold mine... Maybe time to listen to music differently... 😉

The fretboard is not glued anymore. The rust can be removed with some TLC. The bumps are not that big. But the main issue is definitely the fretboard. If it stays around £100~150 GBP, that's ok, over this the highest bidder will be losing his time and money. So sad to see this...

As a fretless player myself, when I practice I'm bloody perfectly pitched, but when I play with others I have to adjust my pitch to be in tune with them. That's the magic of fretless : you can play a solo with each and every note perfectly in tune and then play the rhythmic accompanying part slightly out of tune to be in tune... Here is the question (that sums it all for fretless instruments) I asked to Alain Caron during a masterclass I attended : Doesn't it bother you to play out of tune to be in tune ? He clearly understood what this meant and explained it to the assistance that was staring at me as if I was completely nuts. It took me decades to be able to listen to the piano without becoming dizzy because of this fixed temperament tuning, especially when chords or even triads were played.

Oops, wrong forum. 🤣

I don't know a Fender that doesn't have a dead spot...

I really like it !

The first Fender with an ebony fretless fingerboard is the Tony Franklin model, so 2 decades later (introduced in 2006). 😉

Sorry, this is not a Fender job at all. 😉

Ebony fingerboard in 1977 (and up to 1980 with these serial numbers) didn't exist. The logo was under the lacquer, not over it in the 70's and after. Wrong headstock size. Wrong tuners. Skunk stripe on a non maple board ?!? Fender Corona California in the 70's. 🤣 ... Run away !

Diamonds, certainly, according to the delirious asking price.

And really nice looking bass too !

Use @Andyjr1515 trick with a wire soldered to some adhesive copper. 😉

Looking at the bass, I truly think the hole is for a big pure Havana cigar, no fake skint rocker cigarette, there's the Telecaster for that.

Doesn't seem to be that urgent...

What do you need to know ?

Here is your answer : 80% on the volume on an old Trace Elliot (often with no fans or underrated ones) means it's been so hot you could have cooked on the amp and then it simply started to burn.

Fixed for you.

Natural as I love the look of wood.

My Fake Flea Jazz Bass has a set of these excellent pickups (to me the best "standard" pickups ever, period) and like GR Bass, it's something I recommend all the time ... with some huge success with GR Bass...

Lemmy was a fan... Enough said, no ? If it's not enough, listen to this : They are a great band and they have a great sense of the melody and composition. Like most of us, I discovered these facts only when I grew up. It was so easy to hate them back in the day. That said, I have none of their albums, but I don't turn the sound off when I hear them. Muriel's Wedding was also a fantastic film for (non) Abba fans, and with an amazing Toni Collette !