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This guy made me special ones with a 10 cm width even including one with special radius (39.37 " or 100 cm) for an extra 10 Euros per 210 mm sanding block : http://www.luthimate.fr/fr/recherche?controller=search&orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=cale&submit_search= It was in early 2019. I do believe he speaks English.

Too much tea, maybe ? 🤣

A butchered one. I got the inside cavity photo and it's just awful. The tuners have been changed for incorrect ones and the pickups are now AXY, with the dummy coil still under the badly glued and matched top. Everything that makes a Series One has gone... Get ready for a heart attack. https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/alembic-series-1-1975.9359/ The seller is active here on BassChat, but didn't put it here for sale...

Yeah, I know, but Switzerland is really a strange country, nice but strange...

I see that you're attracted by the myth saying you can get a (quite decent) double bass sound out of a fretless... To do so, you'll have to buy a fretless bass fitted with piezos and tweak the EQ a lot as no cheap bass will do the job with just a P-Bass pickup close to the neck. That said, as a fretless player myself, I can only encourage you to do the jump and buy one. The ones mentioned before are excellent basses for the money, but there are many others. Also check the ads here.

Yep, both ways. Costs a fortune. You'll have to pay for the VAT, customs duties out of Switzerland, customs duties in the incoming country and extra fee for the courier : that makes a lot of money. Better asking if the seller can send from Germany, France, or Italy. Don't worry, they are used to this (if they really want to sell abroad).

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Without the strings. 🤣

And as you must be a Kraftwerk fan, here it is just for you, and me, by the way :

That's the best introduction thread ever. Welcome @Billy Woodfield

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That's it, I remember, the packaging was the same as the two sets of Fame strings I bought many many many many many many many many moons ago. The 4 strings set was quite decent (I mean dead after a few hours, just like the Rotosound's RS66), the fiver was awful. Go figure why... Maybe 2hd stands for second hand ? 😁

It could be worse, everything still in Chinese. 🤣

I know this packing too, from a different brand.

Then there's the AFR series, light and ergonomic too. This is the new series : https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/modern-bass-guitars/ibanez-afr4fmp-ntf-4-string-bass-guitar-in-natural-flat Or, if you like the more standard look, the Sivcak basses are pretty light (my fiver weights exactly 4 kilos) with very high specs and really fantastic sounding. Quite hard to find on the second hand market though... An example : http://www.sollerguitars.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=item&cid=29:seria-osc&id=596:osc-ii-4-067118&Itemid=101&lang=en

According to Bdonkey Direct there's a 9 month wait for custom orders. Indeed, the time to reprogram the CNC machine. 😁

Try the Ibanez EHB1500. A friend of mine has the 5 strings version and it only weights 3.1 kilos, so the 4 strings version will be less. It sounds very good, with Nordstrand pickups and Ibanez preamp, it's very easy to play and you don't feel it on your shoulder. It's also very ergonomic like most of headless basses. The price tag new is quite cheap for such a high quality bass : https://m.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_ehb1500_def.htm Here's the link to Ibanez website : https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/ehb1500_1p_01.html There's also a thread here on these new headless series by Ibanez : Worth checking out. 😉

Each time I thin down the herd, it's getting worse : I buy more basses with the money... as music is my hobby, being playing or listening, and like @Lozz196 I don't drink nor smoke. And it's always the same money, simply turning, so no family money is ever used. Ideally, I could end up with only one sixer fretless and my sixer EUB. Ideally... I played as a semi-pro, meaning I still had a job, for a decade with only one fretless bass. So ideally, yes ! But I love to try new basses or fretless things, so I'll keep having way too many basses.

In France, they even create their own streets names ... only known by themselves. I had some parcels coming back and then sent to the real official address at their expense. And not mentioning the holidays where you look for a street that doesn't exist. 😤

Indeed. I've been shipping basses and other items all over the world for years, but you have to admit that, in the UK, you have a very bad habit of complicating the addressee. I mean a correct address only needs this : Name and Surname Company name, if there's one Street (or anything that's close to this) and Number Zip Code and City. There's absolutely no need for the county, the ancient county name, the big city nearby or the neighbourhood name !?! Yes, each and every time I get an address in the UK, it's a nice game to put it the right way without all useless data you like to add. 🤨