Hellzero

Can you put a photo of the output jack with the wires connected, which let us see where these wires are coming for?

Sorry, couldn't resist after seeing @ziggydolphinboy collection...

This is where Jaco is at his best, listening to the others and playing music. Well maybe his solo part is not mandatory here, but as Joni Mitchell said, it was the price to pay. The two studio albums are excellent too: Hejira and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. You can also try listening to Bright Size Life, with Pat Metheny too, where Jaco was not on the booze and dope at all.

To be very clear: somebody assembling parts IS NOT a luthier, he has to craft them, neither is the guy only changing strings and tuning (when he can) an instrument. There are so many people pretending to be luthiers and who are just wallet emptiers.

A crazy squirrel is mad.

Just see above...

The official definition of luthier, which is a French word is: crafter of stringed instruments. Hélas, this is not protected.

Then it's not the one I know as it didn't go to Austria.

I think so.

How was the setup @SurroundedByManatees ?

It's a GSS proprietary module. I owned one and Didier went nuts when I said it looked like a Pascal module.

I reckon that the Thomann website is quite a mess. 😉 If you don't have the exact reference, you may spend hours trying to find what you're looking for...

You can buy the Rotosound RS88S here: https://www.muziker.de/rotosound-rs88s And the LaBella 760N-S at Thomann: https://www.thomann.de/de/la_bella_760n_s_black_nylon_tape.htm

@SICbass, your bass is a short scale, not a medium, if you try to put some medium scale strings, there's 80% chances that they will break at the tuner's post as they are not meant to be at a ... broken angle (no pun intended).

The Ibanez set is good too, and the files are round shaped not V shaped. I have both. But the price is the same...

Erm,erm... 😉

So where are the pictures @ziggydolphinboy ? 😂

Go to a real tech, it's the best you can do.

That's, hélas, quite typical to make everything wrong compared to the classical way, which is certainly the best one: you can't go wrong with 4 centuries of knowledge. That said you are right about taking classical lessons. 👍

The luthier seems to still be active, here is his website: https://www.richardvanderhoevenguitarsandbasses.nl/ And his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RvanderHoevenGuitars/

If you don't ground the pickup cavities, then what you did there is totally useless as the sensed electronic parasites won't be grounded and will pass in the signal through the pickups. Furthermore, your own body will still act as the more powerful antenna around and you'll still have your free taxi radio turned on... Simply solder a wire from the pickup cavities to the copper of the preamp cavities and everything will become dead silent, especially your Vigier with the amazing Benedetti single coil pickups (that I know very well as my Leduc basses are equipped with Benedetti-Leduc single coil pickups with a third hum-cancelling "pickup" à la Alembic).

Calling @RonC who owned a Leader bass...