marcblum Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Better than having a solution with no according problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 4 hours ago, greenolive said: It was modified by Christophe, He had to get around the original design , & went from this :- To this :- And I love it ! Cool, makes much more sense now! I appreciate how the original control plate was an extension of the pickup, very unusual! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenolive Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 3 hours ago, DaPhonque said: Thank you Greenolive. Yours (or the one wich was yours before) is also beautiful. 😍 I guess it's a few years older than mine, the Design changed a little bit. also passive? Now I wouldn't want the fret lines anymore, but when I ordered mine I was quite a fretless beginner, and had to jump right into recordings - so the fret lines were really needed by me back then. My absolute dream would be to have just the same one with frets. Yes it was passive also , I’ve not got too much experience with fretless - but can say it was the easiest and best one to play out of the few fretless basses I had 👍 I’ve got 4 Leduc basses and can say I’ve got zero gas at the moment ( well always interested in Leduc instruments ! ) I also play some acoustic guitar 🤫, and would love a C2 - let’s see if & when Christophe builds again! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPhonque Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, greenolive said: I’ve got 4 Leduc basses and can say I’ve got zero gas at the moment ( well always interested in Leduc instruments ! ) get ya - it's what I'm thinking about: one fretted Leduc and my GAS should be cured. Unfortunately there are not many Leduc on the second hand market - I wonder why And in that case I probably would let go one Stingray 🤭 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenolive Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Yeah I know what you mean , keeper basses for sure 👍 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Thanks to @greenolive and this thread I started looking at Leduc basses, due to getting the names muddled up I ended up with a Lefay 🤪🤣 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenolive Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 😂 still a good outcome Luke 👍 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPhonque Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Good morning dear Leduc community, today is a good day, a very good day💥 Finally after more than 20 years my MP 524 fretless got her fretted pair. Now I need to get back to play 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 Very nice pair, @DaPhonque ! 👌👍🍾 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPhonque Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Thank you Tony 🙏 I love it already - but I need to adapt to the much wider string spacing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenolive Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Great stuff Fabrice 👍 is it 20mm string spacing ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaPhonque Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 @greenolive it's 17mm - wich is like my MP 524 But at the nut it is 5mm wider, I need to condition my small hands to that But the tone is, the feel, the balance - all is just perfect. As known with Christophe Instruments. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenolive Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Very true Congratulations again 👍 I’m really pleased you found a fretted brother , here’s to another 20 years 🍻 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 (edited) Maybe not the appropriate place to share, so if this violates any rules please feel free to moderate, but there's a wonderful Masterpiece 6 fretless for sale in the Netherlands: Leduc Masterpiece MP 628 SF https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1928276532 I think this is one of @Hellzero's from page 1? Edited January 5, 2023 by LeftyJ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2112 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Good find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted January 6, 2023 Author Share Posted January 6, 2023 18 hours ago, LeftyJ said: Maybe not the appropriate place to share, so if this violates any rules please feel free to moderate, but there's a wonderful Masterpiece 6 fretless for sale in the Netherlands: Leduc Masterpiece MP 628 SF https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1928276532 I think this is one of @Hellzero's from page 1? It used to be mine indeed, and the guy selling it is the very one I sold it to in 2015 and I still clearly remember this very sympathetic deal as a friend had been commissioned by the buyer and traveled 500 kilometres round from Holland to my place in Belgium to buy it for him because he was very busy. Another real good Leduc, the half fret lines are original and where asked by the original owner (J-P C) who is a friend of mine. So the full history of this bass is known with "only" 3 owners. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 (edited) Here is my newly acquired Leduc BD3 fretted bass, bearing serial number BD3 060 A, so an early model from 1981, the tenth BD3 bass made in Fresse-sur-Moselle, France. It has a quite unique Canadian red maple neck through (only 100 instruments were made with this quite rare wood), a Macassar ebony fretboard with small Fender type frets and a bone nut, and two wings of French alder. Look at the continuous integrated ramp that became shorter after 1982. The scale is 33 inches. The pickups are the 1981 original Seymour Duncan Hot Jazz Bass (SJB-2) and Seymour Duncan Vintage Precision Bass (SPB-1), alongside a classic passive path (volume, volume, tone). The bridge is the excellent and original 3 points brass Leduc CG3. I changed the original Gotoh GB-7 for some very lightweight Res-O-Lite to totally avoid neck diving and replaced the original strap buttons by Dunlop Dual Design models for personal commodity. I, of course, kept the original parts. The total weight is now 3.960 kilos. I've put some DR Strings Legend Flatwound 45~105 on it as it was fitted with different brands of flatwounds when I got it and sounded nice (this certainly explains the lack of wear on the frets too). And these strings really serve this very bass: instant Motown on the neck pickup, terrific Jaco/Magma/Fusion on the bridge pickup and excellent scooped tone for chords or melodic progressions with both pickups on. So enough talk... Edited March 29, 2023 by Hellzero Spelling 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzbassist Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Some amazing basses in this thread, but as an aside look at AC's wrist position in this!!! 😱 On 15/12/2021 at 21:36, Hellzero said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 3 hours ago, franzbassist said: Some amazing basses in this thread, but as an aside look at AC's wrist position in this!!! 😱 That's indeed a real broken wrist position... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 It's not a new one to this thread, but may I present my entry into le club: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 Congratulations @Kev ! It's a beautiful and excellent bass too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 12 hours ago, Kev said: It's not a new one to this thread, but may I present my entry into le club: I wanted that one! It looks amazing, congrats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 (edited) Whoa, that's some proper porn! Beautiful bass. Perfect couch (and room) to start a Youtube channel. Or a porn site Edited April 6, 2023 by LeftyJ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 2 hours ago, LeftyJ said: Whoa, that's some proper porn! Beautiful bass. Perfect couch (and room) to start a Youtube channel. Or a porn site @Willfunk Food for thought? 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollo Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Already showed here, but it’s my new Leduc Masterpiece Fretless, one of the most beautiful. The sounds is just out of this world. I owned and played several very good fretless (Pedulla, Le Fay, Laurus, ACG, FBass, Status, Noguera, ESP, Takamine, others Leduc, etc…) and for me it’s just THE BEST OF THEM. And woods are so incredible on it, it’s a gem. Thank you very, very much @Hellzero. The woods : Neck : One piece of magnificent Bird’s Eyes Canadian Hard Rock Maple Fingerboard : Very dark Brazilian Rosewood from 19th century Body : French Ash Top : Wonderful Flammed Maple Pickups : Leduc/Benedetti Single Coils with Hum-cancelling Preamp : Leduc/EBS EL-5 Bridge : Aluminium Leduc with Brass saddles Tuners : Hipshot Ultralight Year of birth : 1998 Maybe I’ll make some sounds soon. 😉 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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