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Added fret lines to the Black Beast. Not especially for exact intonation but for ease of playing the beast. For me a fretless with lines is just more relaxed to play.

More practical, these caps give you more surface to hit and the tops of the caps are also a bit higher so less risk of changing the settings knobs.

Plastic after market caps, by Mooer.

The zero fret on my Basic 5 Ken Taylor is 0.4 millimeter higher than the other frets, it has the same grooves in it and given this appears on quiet a few other Sandberg's I assume it's standard for Sandberg.

In my experience it is, they go dead rather quick, used several sets on some of my six and five string basses and they all started dying after a few weeks and were completely dead (in my opinion) after three months.

You could probably loose 2 cm at the headstock but it won't look nice.

106 cm by 30 cm.

Two Notes Le Bass, beats (in my opinion) all of the competition with that real tube edge and as @Bigwan already mentioned extreme flexibility.

17 inch! I can always put a capo at the 12th fret on a 'normal' bass. But this will spoil the advantage of having a small instrument!

Don't see that trying happening very soon, I'm a lefty! And to build one just to find out if I like it, or not, feels a bit like a waste of time to me.

Looks fantastic but I don't like the short scale. With this scale it's not really a true bass.

The neck feels and plays identical to my V7 and VV7, preamp is also the same, the main difference is the body shape and the sound characteristics of the P pickup. The tuners are also different from the ones that are on my V7's. Cheaper? Better or worse? I don't notice any difference in use. The finish is very good, the preamp is extremely versatile and there are no sharp fret ends.

Newest member to the herd, Sire Marcus Miller P7 5 string. This is the second one Thomann sent me, I had to return the first one due to a non working P pickup and scratching preamp pots.

My ever changing board. Removed a few pedals, added a few new ones and moved a few pedals around and slightly changed the order. Gone: Spectracomp (barely used it), Black Teeth (RAT clone) and Bass Sweeper (also barely used). New: Golden Halo and Alpha-Omicron. The Darkglass Alpha-Omicron is in a league of its own, whatever setting I try it sounds great! I think I'll be busy for quiet a while searching for my favourite settings.

Smart system, only disadvantage is that in fretless mode the action will be high.

Those few kilograms the bass weighs aren't going to add much to the tension the strings are already putting on the neck!

Restored this Westone a bit to its original glory, put in a P and a J pickup again, the J already wasn't stock I put this one in over 30 years ago.

I like this upper horn shape a lot better than the previous one. Didn't want to tell you before but I felt the old horn somehow looked wrong to me and in the end it's your design.

In my opinion the backsides of all three looks even more spectaculair than the front sides.

You could check out MR. LEE over on BGF, he knows his stuff. There are a few more amp experts over there but he has a nice topic on his adventures in amp land, if he can't help you personally he probably knows other folks who can.

Home use. Just for my personal amusement. Gigged and played in a band a long long time ago - hated every moment of it - the nerves before a gig, the endless practising of the same thing over and over again and the pressure of having to do this practising at regular intervals.

I don't like these all in one pedals, I'm always having problems coming to grasps with the user interface on these things and if it breaks everything is broken. In my current set-up now I can change or move a paddle whenever I want to.

Moved around a few pedals to get a visually more pleasing board.... Better for my OCPD , and it resides in my living room so it must look as nice as possible as well! No change in the chain order.

Added a few pedals (Luxe, Green Russian and a RAT clone), removed one (Ditto), also did some changes to the order. Made a secondary board and reinstated a few old pedals. I just couldn't get to grips with the one switch control of the TC ditto. Do I need to stamp it once, twice, hold? This makes me think while recording... and there goes another attempt at making a decent loop down the drain. That's why I bought a extra switching pedal for my Boss looper, blablas can cope better with more switches. Also placed my old Harley Benton compressor in front of the looper, this gives me the illusion of having just a little bit more control over the quality of the sound I want to loop. The two boards in one picture.