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I still have a see through red Kramer The Duke (Deluxe). Great basses indeed. May put it for sale one of these days...

Looks like everything has been removed from eBay, including 2 other items (Tobias and another Ritter I was following). Hacked or blocked ? Did someone report these ads ?

Headless for sure, but also pointy headstock basses... But which one would become a collector apart from a Steinberger XL2 (already very pricey) : no ideas, nor clues.

I don't think he's been hacked as he's doing this for months and maybe even years (under other pseudos). Seen the email address before and reported it a few times to eBay, but he's still there... Or he's so easy to hack that you see what happens... 🤣

Look here (Tobias pre-Gibson) and you'll understand that he knows exactly what he's doing and the real value if his items. He also certainly has a reserve price friend too. 😉

Not at all, the guy is quite clever as the best way to sell at high prices when bids are involved is to start at the lowest price possible. I've been selling through eBay for years and always had the best results this way. Furthermore all his ads end on Sunday (local time), which is also another great way to get higher prices. 😉

50% discount on PSA, that's interesting. Too bad, I did my blood sample test two weeks ago and paid the full price. 🤣

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If it's well done, yes. If not it can be worse than nothing. You have to link each shielded cavity to the main one, so grounding will be complete. And please do a total star grounding, otherwise it may also be useless. Also try to avoid unnecessary grounding or you may create a ground loop.

Just in case, those green stamps were used from 1972 to 1980 and the codes for the instruments changed, so here it is deciphered for you : 01 : Precision Bass 03 : Rosewood fretboard 45 : 45th week 5 : 1975 2 : Day 2

Yes, totally, a bit hard to decipher, but right.

The Hipshot FM2 will work. Check this : https://hipshotproducts.com/products/a-style-fender-mount-bridges

Where do you see or read 6 strings ?!? Or I'm the one needing (new) glasses...

For the strap Lemmy was using for some time his own Richter Motörhead signature and their excellent Loxx strap locking system. https://www.richterstraps.com/screen/page/motorhead/language/en But way back in 1981, it was a stupid strap button as there was nothing else available.

I always plan my pedalboards, so that's what I did two days ago and arranged the pedals to have two channels for my new one. One dry channel and one wet channel using a "stereo" volume pedal and a two channels preamp with an always on tuner on the dedicated output. And a battery powered supply.

Or the seller changed the photos or you need glasses...

And the silly money, but terrific sounding ToneRider : https://tonerider.com/product/jazz-plus/

@Happy Jack The main board is on the right (you can see the screw) and the battery is elsewhere in its own free access lid cavity.

Hard to tell from the photos, but as @Jo.gwillim said, those solders don't look very trustable... And might short the negatives together, which means "Always On".

And get his brain checked over by someone who knows what they're doing. 🤣

And then come those stating that what makes the sound of an electric instrument are the pickups (and preamp). I'm saying it loud for more than 30 years : an electric bass (or guitar) is before all an acoustic instrument. If it doesn't sound unplugged, it will not sound plugged... You can try this to add mass to your headstock and move the frequency resonance just enough to suppress the dead spot : https://m.thomann.de/gb/fat_finger_guitar_chrome.htm Christophe LEDUC once told me, a very long time ago, that all instruments have a dead spot, even a Steinway piano or full graphite instruments, but the work of the luthier is to "hide" that dead spot. That said, he is an architect before being a luthier, knowing all these facts...

The only bass designed to be detuned all the way is this : http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/hyperbass.html But get ready for new mortgage and a divorce... Wow, this guitarist is really a ... guitarist ! Detuning because of string breaking : never heard something that stupid ... or selfish. You know after 20 years, strings can break... sometimes. 🤣