Well FWIW
This is one of my basses I built and I use this a lot live. I do lots of sessions with people I do not know and the 1st comment is usually he's got a steinberger, it's the 80's again.
The balance is fantastic. I understand all about the problems of neck dive... one of my other basses I built is a telecaster shaped body with a long tele neck (like a G&L ASAT) and it dives so I have a special velcro clip to my waist belt and that works...
But anyway, the headless:
The body is bookmatched spalted maple top, sapele core, Bookmatched spalted back, the neck is an early Status off ebay (flipped the headpiece around to use as lefty), the electronics are 2 AXYs and separate vol and filter for each (photo is from when it was just finished, started with vol/vol/filter - it has 4 knobs now and is vol/filter,vol/filter, also photo shows fatboys, but I use AXYs now).
The output jack is a Neutrik locking, the hardware is ABM. It was built in my workshop in NZ, where I used to live. It sounds very bright and this bass is my most comfortable to strap on ergonomically. I use a leather Slap Strap from Germany.
Sound? Don't let anyone tell you that putting alembic pickups in a body gets you an alembic tone....it has the character but I have about 5 lefty basses now I have made with Alembic guts and they all sound different. This one is the brightest. Too bright for motown soul, but the filter cures that in an instant. It's got the hotdotz (fretfx) and this is one time Roz made a custom job for a headless.
I found a new german company making some bass bridges and headless hardware... and they will make me custom lefty hardware so I will start another headless bass.
www.ets-hardware.com/ I also do not pretend that this is anywhere close to my Alembic, my workmanship is OK but it is not quite commerical grade, but this is my bass and I like it a lot.
(Message edited by 0vid on December 08, 2006)
