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Maybe worth asking Markus HOPPE at AER. He's a very nice guy, sometimes a bit slow on answering, but he will. It's a general email address, but adding a note for Markus will make the email reach him. [email protected] He is the service manager and is also taking care of my (now) AER stuff. 😉

The lightest (and excellent sounding) you'll find is definitely the GR Bass AeroTech cabinets (carbon) and their One or Dual heads. Bass Direct is selling them in the U.K. https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/GR_Bass_Amplification.html

Made to measure instruments are expensive, so yes your price estimation is correct. Check this then : https://public-peace.de/configurator/frog-headless/type This will be the cheapest you can find for a custom made instrument.

As you live in Berlin, go by the Dobbratz brothers owning Le Fay, they will make what you're looking for. Check their RHT (Right Hand Tuning) system for a headless approach, but with a headstock without tuners... They also make real headless basses. That said, the locking jack is a very bad idea as it's a real pain in the *ss for many reasons. A Status King Bass looks like another great option for you too.

Sh*t happens... I'll get my coat.

I don't think you can find any better than the Mono Bag M80. It's pricey, but hey it's Wal going inside and I put my even more expensive Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block in one of those without any fear. But first check this and you'll understand why it's the best protective gig bag to date : https://monocreators.com/ This : https://monocreators.com/pages/m80 And the two specific versions for bass : https://monocreators.com/products/vertigo-bass-guitar-case-grey https://monocreators.com/products/vertigo-bass-guitar-case-black

Ok, let's face it another way : the typical island and particularly typical British "need for" isolation. Living and studying in Belgium in the late 70's/early 80's we where more into hard rock, punk, new wave or cold wave, but at least one of us (he was a sax and keyboard player) was listening to some fusion and introduced us to Weather Report and Jaco Pastorius. I clearly remember not liking it that much, but being interested by the whole concept. That said I was more into Japan and the amazing Mick Karn or even Pino Palladino with Gary Numan or, a bit later, with Paul Young. I was loving Hawkwind and, of course, Lemmy with or without Motörhead. I really discovered Jaco Pastorius through Toots Thielemans in the mid 80's thanks to an extraordinary concert with Michel Hatzigeorgiou on Fender fretless Jazz Bass. Talking about Lemmy reminds me that he always liked to say that he was listening to Radio Luxembourg when he was young as there was absolutely nothing to listen to on the BBC, especially nothing new or non British, just the typical boring stuff labelled Made in Britain. With my best mate we also had a broadcasting show on Saturday evening on a local radio presenting almost everything musically different or obscure at the time, early 80's, with a real audience and some recognition too. The concept of the show was also different as the name changed everything 10 shows as well as the jingle that we were making ourselves. So why would Jaco be recognised in the late 70's/early 80's in Belgium and not in the U.K. ? Just check above.

Tort for me too, especially with aged white. Urm, urm, the aged white is not @Happy Jack... 😉

Use a caliper and simply measure the shaft as @Velarian suggested, it will be either metric (6 mm) or imperial (6.3 mm or 1/4 inch), then buy the ones corresponding. If you prefer push-on knobs, then buy these. That said if the original ones are already screw-on type, you can simply redrill them to 6.3 mm...

The Boss OC-5 has a terrific tracking. On my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 (Fretless), it tracks down to the low B... Check these 10 pages : Loads of comparisons with other octavers and BassChatters comments too, so real time ones.

Did Tim Tim with TIM ?

Congratulations, my bands last 5 years and disappear, to be polite.

Buy - bought - bought. Bring - brought - brought. Can you please use the correct one and stop confusing bought with brought ? And it's not only @Bean9seventy...

Terrific work as usual @Andyjr1515 !

Some new photos of the MP 524 from 2008. It has these very rare features for a Leduc : A very rare two pieces book matched flamed ash body with a quarter sawn Canadian hard rock maple set neck (stopping at the bridge) and a very thick Para rosewood (Dalbergia Spruceana) fingerboard that is very close to the usual Brazilian rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra) sound wise. It also has an optional nitro finish to let the wood resonate. Another interesting feature is that what seems to be an headstock veneer is in fact the extension of the thick fingerboard itself.

Waiting for some other photos from other owners...

I was only five, but already interested in music. Don't worry, it was the Hit Parade for me, but 1970 was the year of this jazz milestone. Miles Davis : beaches Brew.

Hipshot are "making" these Licenced tuners in Korea since around at least 10 years... 😉

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No, you are not alone. @Christine@josie for instance have sort of disappeared. I wonder what happened.

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