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The Shuker Superleggera is a great idea too... But it will double your budget as you already said, just like a Biarnel or a Status (maybe triple here).

And of course Status has declined the KingBass in 32 inches scale with the BendWell thingy. Don't forget @skelf ACG 32" headless models!

Check Biarnel in Italy, they make at least one super light model, in Scorcio series, at 32 inches scale: https://www.biarnel.com/eng/biarnel-instruments/biarnel-electric-basses/biarnel-scorcio/

Yamaha B Motion MB-II: https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/annonce-2155344 But it's not headless... I need some more coffee. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Sivcak has a lot of choice, including Sadowsky/Pope like aluminium knobs : https://www.shop.sollerguitars.com/guit-control-knobs

Papa Was a Rolling Stone, So What, A Remark You Made, Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) and Take Five (as well as the sax part transcribed for bass).

At least, someone catched it.

Try ammonia first, it has the faculty to darken wood, but make light passes as it can really darken a lot.

8 posts on TalkBass in 8 years: I'm quite regular. 🤔😂 And 5,190 here over the same period, think I prefer talking bass here.

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There's a third option, which is removing the frets, sanding the whole fingerboard flat to the depth of the slots, then gluing an upper 3 to 5 mm (depending on the depth of the slots) thick ebony fingerboard radiused to your "needs" and moving the side dots to the correct position. It's fast and easy.

Yep, and the intro is really à la Who. Nice catchy tune with that Flash and the Pan vibe (big fan here). Hi @Beedster 👋

John McLaughlin riff is just hypnotic on Right Off. Yesternow, the only other tune on that record is excellent too, that said. One of, if not my favourite Miles Davis record and tune.

The neck plate serial number indicates 1976 not 1971! Check the pots date codes and the stamp at the heel of the neck. 5 years make a huge difference in terms of price!

The late Shawn Lane was an impressive all types of music player too, just like Ron Thal still is, even if he played with Guns N' Roses... Money can be tight sometimes.

Both, but a real community in the best definition of the word. BassChat is the one and only forum or social media where I'm active. I've also been banned forever from OnlyBass (oh, really 🤔 😂 )or jailed from a few fora over the years for excess of honesty, which is too often considered as patronising. Due to my also remote location, it's not easy to meet you guys, but I managed to meet of a few dozen of members in the flesh and have active WhatsApp communication with a lot. Last year, I had to take a break and came back (sorry for those who put me on their ignore list, something that I discovered a few months ago and thought didn't exist) as it's a real community where I noticed that even after having words with one or more members, everything is almost instantly resolved by common sense. And I'm proud of two threads that don't and won't exist anywhere else, because they wouldn't have last more than 3 posts, but here, because nobody has that big head from over the pond, they stay and last. The first started as a "rant" by myself and quickly became a non sense thread where you put anything you want to say without reading anything with 99 pages and the other where I've been active for a while is a complete delirious proof that delirium tremens doesn't especially mean excess of alcohol with 3349 pages (right now)! Cheers girls, yes it's so very rare to have you on fora, and boys!

These are not Seymour Duncan pickups as there's a magnet bar glued under, neither DiMarzio because there would be 2 magnet bars per pickup (humbucker) and Allen imprint pole pieces type. I think these are 80's Japanese pickups, maybe Matsumoku. Calling @Bassassin !

Always avoid surgery whenever it's possible and consider it the very last resort. If it's only palm contracture you can try Xiaflex®: https://www.xiaflex.com/ Most of the time, there are softer alternatives, but physicians won't tell it to you, surgery means big money. Furthermore, it's a genetic disease, better enquire in your family if there are precedents, before going any further. And here's how your hand could look just after the surgery, if you are lucky...:

Looks like your pickups are the Seymour Duncan Hot as it's what they are supposed to read. I've got an original 1981 set on my PJ Leduc BD3 and they sound amazing, really!

Indeed @Leonard Smalls, but I doubt The Clash knew they were playing modal music... I think it's called an accident. And to answer the question, a rock guitarist will run away as soon as he sees a partition. Old joke, I know. That said Christophe Godin is a hell of a player and has a terrific knowledge of music and he's always kidding and joking (saw him a few times live). And @bassace I helped him buy the ingredients and cook a tartiflette once by buying the CD's of The Mörglbl Trio when meeting him in a store in Paris, ... well that's what he said. 😂

I'm quite intrigued by the Gear4Music bass body as they are dirt cheap, but look very decent... That said a fretless P-Bass will guide you outside the Jaco tone and it can become very interesting, more into the slow and powerful groove territory.

Nice project too. 😉

Lovely cat. 😍