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Would anyone know where I could get ETS (German) hardware from in the UK. Specifically for a headless design. I'm looking for headless bass hardware that will use normal single ball end strings. I got the idea from a previous post on a previous bassworld site but cannot find that builders post any more. Cheers all.

[quote name='Gizmo' post='19885' date='Jun 18 2007, 08:43 PM']Hey Cail thanks for your kind words glad to see someone else is digging the single cut vibe UPDATE: i got a bit more done today on the control cavity and back plate as well as some work smoothing out the heal and lower horn there still not where i want them ut better than they were (u can click these thumbs for larger images) [url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1306/565690726_0835b68824_o.jpg"][/url] [url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/565690738_516fbd46f9_o.jpg"][/url] [url="http://"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1062/565690790_12be2d41d4_o.jpg"][/url] [url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1094/565690800_4092280e57_o.jpg"][/url] Thats a fine piece of dedicated work. I was looking at the backplate. Matching piece but how? Did you cut a veneer off that half body section before routing the control cavity on the body and then use the veneered piece to make the matching backplate? [url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1062/565690790_12be2d41d4_o.jpg"][/url] [url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1108/566052657_4b3817f16f_o.jpg"][/url][/quote]

Top man, good communications, nice to do business with.

[quote name='Weird War' post='10651' date='Jun 1 2007, 04:57 PM']I'm thinking of installing some noiseless pickups in my Jazz, and am looking at these: Fender Samarium Cobalt Noiseless (SCN), Fender Vintage Noiseless, and Nordstrand NJ4SVs. Have BCers tried any of these?[/quote] I have a near new pair of Bill Lawrence jazz pickups for sale at £40 +post. Have a look at Bill's site www.billlawrence.com ( 3 letter l's in there!) where he goes in depth about his pickups. Bill designed the pickups for Fender that I have on my Roscoe Beck bass's. These that I have for sale are noiseless, have multiple magnets in them and the camber of the fingerboard/strings is followed by the centre magnets curving up towards the centre strings. I have a for sale post on this site for them with photo so contact me if you want further info. cheers, Pete

I think the guy at Watford valves is a "tube head" bassist himself.

Wow, sorry to see that damage, looks like it has been caught out by a forklift or something. Jeez, I cannot look at that photo too much! As a part time luthier, I can envisage how much pressure is needed to snap a neck with truss rod in it. Perhaps you can get a pro luthier to write a "report" on how difficult it must have been for a parcel force worker to snap the neck with their bare hands. In other words, this was done by mechanical means and then a blind eye turned on it. The worry is now sending basses off myself. Probably best to buy a cheap hard case and encase it in toughened steel and titanium! I know when sending stuff thru the PO I can insure over the "usual" amounts by paying extra. As I have yet to try parcel "Force" (!!!) to send stuff, I will surely check out all the print.