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Sure, I'm sold out at the moment. I'm going to make a batch of these plates during winter.

For bridge ground wire I've made a"drill" out of a bicycle spoke. Tap one end flat, file it like a spade blade and drill away. Just big enough hole for ground wire.

I've used ABM, ETS, Hohner and Nova headless tuners. Nova is by far the smoothest and easiest to tune. They are also the lightest.

On my latest headless I made the neck about 15mm past the string clamp. When I cut the strings they were still over the neck and somewhat protected.

My RB800. Refinished, truss rod and fretboard changed, custom Wal-like eight coil pickups. All done at my shop. Next is filter based preamp. Nice player and great sound.

That inlay idea looks great, it has a sort of M on the legs. I like it!

Wow, one of my tinkerings on an international discussion forum! Glad to hear you like the bass! Marko

I took a mold of an original Steinberger pivot plate. I’d need an original lefty pivot plate for taking a mold of a lefty. I guess lefties are even more difficult to find than righties. I coul make a lefty, but for one I’d have to make a reverse version of a righty (quite a lot of work as the plate is concave 3d shape) and make a mold of that before making sellable plates. For even some monetary value for time it’s not worth making as I guess there’s not too many buyers for lefties.

Sorry, no left hand ones.

You mount the pivot plate thru the middle hole. A countersunk screw (or bolt if you prefer threaded inserts) and a rubber washer is all that’s needed to mount the plate. The plate svivels and strap mounts to the two remaining holes. Just like the original but with simpler mounting hardware.

80€ plus shipping, (about 10€ to Europe).

It’s basically just a 1:1 shape and contour copy of the original Steinberger plate with simpler mounting.

If anyone is interested in buying a carbon/glassfiber composite Steinberger pivot plate copy please pm me. I have three plates for sale atm.

Making a carbon fiber instrument is not more difficult than working with wood. It’s just different, in many ways even easier. If interested, please check out https://www.talkbass.com/threads/winter-2017-build-off-carbon-headless-bass.1259505/

I think Moses Steinberger neck and Hohner tuner/bridge will not match. The neck is for narrower string spacing.