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Amazingly amazing and even more amazing work! Lovely looking and excellent sounding unique bass! 😍😍😍😍

I had one in my early days too, really good bass, and I also like headless basses a lot.

Some explanations here, on the same microtonal guitar YT channel: watch instead of laughing, Turkish and Oriental music is just amazing. Of course, I'm a subscriber to this channel as I really enjoy microtonal music.

Indeed, and add the shipping fee and administrative fee to the equation plus the import taxes to calculate the VAT. We are closer to 33% than 25%... That's why I stopped importing things even if the original price is low. These taxes are a real deal breaker.

Very expensive firewood... 🤢🤮

The Sadowsky VTC is a direct replacement preamp, so it might be interesting too, just like a lot of John East dedicated models as said before: https://www.east-uk.com/product-category/j-style/?v=d3dcf429c679 Check the J-Tone as it seems to be what you're looking for. John is always there and you can talk directly with him to get exactly what you want. And the volume potentiometers not doing much is quite typical for a Jazz Bass. 😉

Not really a prototype, but a 1992 model, when the design was still not (quite) definitive. There's also its sibling fretted version that was sold for peanuts a few months ago, but needed a lot of work that João Godinho in Luxemburg did under Christophe Leduc remote supervision.

My brand new Leduc U-Basse 6 Fretless Custom ordered a bit more than 5 years ago was delivered to me by Christophe for my ... birthday. What a self gift ! I'll post way better photos later. The specs are: One piece Brazilian mahogany body. Red cedar patented floating sound board, Set in Canadian hard rock maple neck, 128 years old Brazilian rosewood thick fingerboard, Luminlay's as dot positions markers as well as on the 3 quilted maple knobs, Macassar ebony bridge as well as the 6 tuning knobs, Original Q-Tuner magnetic pickups, Fishman BP-100 twin piezo pickup at tuned locations under the sound board, Fishman PowerChip preamp buffer that allows "stereo" splitting or "mono" mixed output with a stereo or mono cable, Blend of the magnetic pickups, volume of these, volume of the twin piezo, Weight is 3.490 kilos.

This French guy makes some amazing instruments and he can play them too !

If the truss rod tool you ordered doesn't work, this one will: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grover-8020-Autoharp-Tuning-Hammer/dp/B0002F7IEE/

My favourite "cover":

Literally extraordinary. Thank you for sharing @Rich !

On a record where I used to play a fretted and a fretless bass depending the track, afterwards it's hard to tell which is which as I was able to play the fretted Leduc U-Basse in such a way that it sounded like a fretless and the fretless Leduc Masterpiece was sounding like a fretted bass under my fingers on dole tracks So it can work both ways @Linus27. 😉 @Rayman : You could try the Fodera round wound nickel strings on your fretless as they are really excellent, but hélas quite expensive. I stopped using them because of that.

This is the string packaging that is patented, in fact! 🤦🏻‍♂️ https://patents.google.com/patent/US8839952B2/

I tried a few sets on my fretted basses. The 4 strings set was engaging, that's why I bought a fiver and a sixer set, and there came the utter deception: both B strings were dead sounding and C string was really dull and I also had a weaker sounding A string in one set. Cheap, but not reliable and the patent they pretend to have doesn't exist at all. I came back to the good ol' Elixir's.

This link is working correctly : https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003985410165.html

You don't have to have Facebook (I have no Facebook account) to lose your time watching videos or other useless things there Douglas. 😉

So no need for a logo. Do you have some sense of humour?

Thanks a lot @Linus27 and it confirmed I don't like fretless P-Bass hollow tone, but that's only me, and it's only a question of personal taste, so no need to start a war here. 😉 Thanks a lot for your tone examples.

Strange notion of fake... Are you Chinese? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Exactly what I said earlier, the shielding is not grounded... The bridge must be grounded too.