DaPhonque

thank you, it is absolutely amazing! 😎
 

Christophe Leduc is a wellknowned french Luthier.
He built this HMP524 in 1993.
Since he retired his basses become rare.
 

The specs are :
Maple neck through, Broadneck,
Para rosewood fretboard,
Bodywings Ash,
EMG soapbar pickups,
Leduc-EBS EL-5 preamp,
Leduc Headless aluminium bridge with brass locking saddles.
Only 3,7kg (personal scale)

All potis has been renewed recently.
All technical things are in good condition,
but it got some dongs (shown on the photos) in the last 30+ years.

Comes in original Gigbag.

The price for a new one has been around 4000,-€ - 4.500,-€ the last years.

http://leduc.fr/index.php/basses/27-solid-body

@greenolive it's 17mm - wich is like my MP 524
But at the nut it is 5mm wider, I need to condition my small hands to that

But the tone is, the feel, the balance - all is just perfect.
As known with Christophe Instruments.

Thank you Tony 🙏

I love it already - but I need to adapt to the much wider string spacing.
 

Good morning  dear Leduc community,
today is a good day, a very good day💥

Finally after more than 20 years my MP 524 fretless got her fretted pair.
Now I need to get back to play  

3 minutes ago, greenolive said:

I’ve got 4 Leduc basses and can say I’ve got zero gas at the moment ( well always interested in Leduc instruments ! ) 

get ya - it's what I'm thinking about: one fretted Leduc and my GAS should be cured.
Unfortunately there are not many Leduc on the second hand market - I wonder why   

And in that case I probably would let go one Stingray 🤭

1 hour ago, greenolive said:

It was modified by Christophe, 

He had to get around the original design , & went from this :-

 

To this :-

 

 

And I love it !

 

 

 

 

I'm not quite sure about it - it is a perfect and esteticl solution for sure!
Perfect Thumb Ramp!
 

1 hour ago, greenolive said:

Lovely masterpiece DaPhonque 👍

 

Love the grain in the bubinga , I wish I kept hold of the HMP528SF, but I’m not really a fretless player , sure @alaink is still loving it .

 

 

 

Thank you Greenolive.

Yours (or the one wich was yours before) is also beautiful. 😍
I guess it's a few years older than mine, the Design changed a little bit.
also passive?

Now I wouldn't want the fret lines anymore, but when I ordered mine I was quite a fretless beginner,
and had to jump right into recordings - so the fret lines were really needed by me back then.

My absolute dream would be to have just the same one with frets.

dear Leduc Community,
Hellzero invited me to show my Love here.

I ordered my Masterpiece 5 fretless in 1999, and can still remember the lucky day Christophe told me that I could pick her up.
I kept it all passive. A real candy is the (now) 120 years old rio rosewood fretboard!
That was such a nice day, driving to Christophs luthier-shop near Metz (before his move).
Since then it's my favorite Bass, in sound, ergonomy - unbeatable.

So enough talking here are some pics.