LeftyJ

Italia tried this once, with a singlecoil lipstick pickup per string, mounted parallel:

Beautiful! If yours has the solid machined brass bridge I wouldn't touch it (wickedly expensive to replace, and a really solid piece of hardware) but if it's one of the molded bridges: Warwick sells black replacements in their webshop at very fair prices. The solid brass bridge + tailpiece is €385, but the molded one in black is only €55. https://shop.warwick.de/en/parts-for-instruments/warwick-spare-parts/bass-bridges-tailpieces

Those are double-ball, but not flatwound.

No double-ball end flats though, and looks like they're all NOS. Picato still has a website which isn't very helpful and directs you to Strings and Things.

http://stringadapter.com/string-adapter/compare-prices/ This adapter will hold regular single-ball strings without modifications to your bass. It anchors behind the headpiece. I'm not aware of the issue @Jean-Luc Pickguard pointed out about it not being suitable for flatwounds. It might be worth contacting the company to ask though!

Black maple? That's the first time I've ever seen a mention of such a thing. Looks incredible!

That ziricote fingerboard looks fantastic! The grain on that wood always blows me away, it looks so wild with all the overlaps and randomly appearing and disappearing lines. Olive can have a similar effect, I love it

I think he quit a few years ago. His site is gone, he never posts to Leftybassist.com anymore. I tried contacting him on LinkedIn recently, but he didn't accept my request to connect.

I'm not really into dance, I'm more of a metalfan myself. I do enjoy dance acts that actually play live with a real band, like Faithless and The Prodigy, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Pendulum sometimes play with a real live band too! One of my favourite tracks of theirs is Watercolour: Frontman Rob Swire is actually a huge metal fan, they even did a collab with In Flames ("Self vs self") on the album that Watercolour is on too. I dig a bit of drum & bass, and can really enjoy some dubstep too.

When adjusting the intonation, loosen the tiny set screw that locks the saddles in place from the side. Then, adjust carefully by loosening the tension of the string that needs intonation and move that saddle. Be careful not to move the other saddles if they're intonated correctly. Keeping the tension on those strings will help avoiding any unwanted slipping. That's basically all there is to know The old Status bridges were roughly identical to the old Steinberger bridges but with the tuning assembly in a separate tailpiece instead of a one-piece assembly. There's a wealth of information out there on old Steinbergers, you might be able to find more info on those that might be useful.

Fingers Elixir Nanoweb .045-.125 or Status Hotwire .040-.125 on my 5-strings, .045-.100 on my 4-strings Wide range of various basses, but mostly my Status S2 Classic 5-string and 4-string or my Warwick Streamer LX4 or LX5 Spectraflex cables Pedaltrain Nano with a TC Electronic Polytune 3 Noir, EBS MultiComp, Darkglass B7K and EBS UniChorus Ampeg SVP-PRO 19" tube preamp. Depending on the gig, it either goes straight into the PA, with an EBS NeoDrome 12-150 as a personal bass monitor, or into an EBS HD350's power amp and an EBS Proline 410. At home I plug my bass straight into the NeoDrome 12-150. Awesome amp!

In 2000 I was just getting into metal, and this was the first ever album I bought that turned out to feature death grunts. I had never heard anything other like it and was blown away. It's still a fantastic record today, it was the first of four Opeth albums with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree as a producer (and guest vocalist). It got me into Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson's solo recordings too, and the excellent album Steven Wilson and Opeth's frontman Mikael Akerfeldt made together as Storm Corrosion.

Cool '54 Precision style bass by Regenerate Guitar Works in Seattle. The builder, Rod Banach, was on leftybassist.com for a long time: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Regenerate-Bass-Guitar-Left-Handed/324492836805 Didn't this belong to @leftybassman392 at some point? I think you had one of two Regenerates?

Not really! The gold label MEC pickups are active, and require 9V at all times to work. The push-pull only bypasses the tone controls. I'll keep you in mind, but don't count on it! Ever since I got it it's all I've been playing and it's awesome

Porn!

Back in the early days of Status, every model had its own range of serial numbers. So 154 is not a unique number, there can be several out there: a Series 2, an S2000, you name it. Impossible to tell from just the serial

Vanden Plas at Bospop in 2000 or 2001. They played a fairly small tent, and it was wickedly, painfully loud! The ringing in my ears lasted for 3 days. I didn't stick around for the entire set.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Left-Handed-Sandberg-Classic-Bass/184676623495?hash=item2aff95a487:g:UYgAAOSwfeJgM-jr There you go Odd indeed!

The Eagles of Death Metal

A new nut should only affect the tone of the open strings though If the overall tone of the bass has changed for the better to your ears (in the other positions too, as you're describing), it's more likely the Chromes are just starting to wear in. Or it might even be just being reunited with it after it sat with your luthier for a couple of days

Since the ends are clamped behind the nut / zero fret, you can just cut any kind of string to size

I have a few from some bloke named Jim Dunlop. Can't remember the gig or what band he's in

The pickup positions Leo Fender chose are actually very carefully thought out, they're exactly at harmonic knots of the open strings. They don't call it the sweet spot for nothing

I owned a Human Base from the late 80s for a while that was made for a bass store in Frankfurt that doesn't exist anymore called Mr.Bassman. They sold basses under their own name that were made by Clover and Human Base. Mine was the No Sweat model, which looks a lot like the current Base X model. It was through-neck, with big Bartolini soapbars and a lovely rosewood top. I wish I still had it, but it didn't suit me at the time. It was super comfortable and easy to play, but I couldn't fine a tone that worked for my band at the time. It looked almost identical to this one, but lefty: