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Nice work, Harry and good idea to keep basses under 4 kilos, which is something all manufacturers should do to spare our backs. 😉

Don't take it bad @Andyjr1515 but ebony is not as stable as maple when it comes to drying and taking (and releasing) humidity, so you better glue two ebony reinforcements in the neck otherwise this scenario will reproduce itself during the winter. During this very hot summer all instruments I know have been moving a lot including my Le Fay with a stainless steel fingerboard!?! All instruments? No, my Leduc's didn't need any single truss rod tweaking. Strange? No, the explanation lies in the way he's making the necks and the woods used. My main bass is a Leduc MP 628 SF with a slim one piece hard rock Canadian maple through neck, a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and a single action truss rod and this bass never moves. This is a strong alliance of woods. I have another sixer Leduc (HMP 624) with a Macassar ebony fretboard and to prevent it to move, Christophe makes the neck in 5 parts of the very same Macassar ebony and hard rock Canadian maple all glued together, this way the neck is as stable as possible. Check this: His woods are also stocked at permanent same hygrometry for years or even decades and this helps too. In fact, if you ask for an ebony fingerboard, the 5 pieces neck becomes ... mandatory. So, one will ask why don't classical instruments move even without truss rod? The ebony fingerboard is way thicker and ... rounded stiffening the whole neck a lot more than conventional modern electric luthiery approach. It's all about mass or even masses and mastered rigidity. 😉

Woods moving at different speed like ebony and maple. If one wasn't as dry as the other, this may result in this scenario.

That said the terminology used is against the common sense. I think that using correct and non subject to interpretation words like concave and convex will make explanations way easier to understand. 😉 It's just like the front and rear pickups... 🤦‍♂️

Or the trussrod. 😉

Amazing build as usual @Andyjr1515 and some clever ideas too. 👏

You know, it's like the padauk fingerboards...

After more than a year and a half in its company and as there is no thread dedicated to the phenomenal Le Fay basses, I'll start with my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block photographed on the mandatory 400 years old oak floor. Big Block meaning is explained in the specifications, so RHT stands for Right Hand Tuning, CC stands for Crazy Cherry, and CAP is explained in detail here: https://www.lefay.de/index.php/EN/most_recently/news-events There is a QR Code, because the bass as an embedded chip to protect it against theft. First, here are the links to Reiner and Meik DOBBRATZ creations: Website: https://www.lefay.de/index.php/EN/bass_models/overview Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lefaybasses/ Old YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LeFayKiebitzreihe New YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCxNVglUiNZC9uw40NHgeLA/featured Second, the complete specifications (with the price, sorry I'm not showing off as this was a gift from my wife) of my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block: Third, the photos, of course : Fourth, a tune recorded with this very bass to hear the tone of the stainless steel fingerboard, which is between Brazilian rosewood and ebony (one take directly in the soundcard, passive mode, 2/3 of bridge pickup in parallel, tone closed at 70%, slight reverb and Elixir nickel plated strings): https://tonybertrand.bandcamp.com/track/i-wish-i-was-swiss

This fan is dead silent and is a direct replacement : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noctua-NF-A6x25-FLX-Premium-Quiet/dp/B009LEKGGE/

And especially for @LukeFRC, here is the video showing how to change strings on an RHT model, which is fast and easy:

The Dobratz brothers call this RHT for Right Hand Tuning, and the idea is to still have mass behind the nut and thus having a less typical headless low mid emphasis and sometimes too fast attack.

Thanks for your comments Douglas. That said, I can't find any resemblance with my melody, yours being closer to the French national hymn in fact, when mine is closer to Words by The Christians, without being a plagiarism. 😉 I noticed the above resemblance when playing my tune, but the melody was so obsessive in my head that I had to play and record it. The tone of the fretless is quite close in both melodies (yours and mine) and the breathing (I wouldn't say rhythm as I try to forget it) are quite close, but not the same at all. Thanks to you I have the title of the album: Loneliness boredom of mere solitude. 😂 My approach is to show the fretless as it is, quite raw, for sure, but mere solitude is quite spot on, and I like it. That said as all the tunes will be without any overdubs, the balance will come from the flow of the music within these tunes. And you're not harsh, but honest, which is different and I appreciate it.

Hi mates, Here's the link to Bandcamp where you can find the first track for an album dedicated to fretless bass only : https://tonybertrand.bandcamp.com/track/i-wish-i-was-swiss I hope it will be finished early next year... or sooner, who knows. I love ambience and repetitive loops for music and fretless bass is the only way to achieve my goal. Thanks for your comments, they will be more than appreciated.

Here are good photos of this ufo : https://vintageguitars.fr/produit/burns-split-sound-bass/ https://www.guitare-village.com/occasion/pawnshop/pawnshop_105.php https://www.guitarecollection.com/produit/basses-vintage/burns-split-sound-bass-sunburst-de-1962 https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Burns-Split-Sound-6-String-Bass-1963-Sunburst-44691 Here with a video: https://reverb.com/item/4936443-burns-london-split-sound-six-string-bass-1962-sunburst And here some threads and infos about this not so rare bass : https://www.talkbass.com/threads/burns-6-string-bass-split-sound.1503882/ https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33604 https://blackguitars.com/burns-vista.html

Except that it's Reverb. 🤣