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In the meantime I have some more information about the build quality of the trapeze. The connection between the trapeze and the string holding metal piece fortunately only looks glued but is in fact welded at three points of the construction. The one I received seemed to have contact only at two...

Thanks for the hint. I will bring it back to the shop and first try to exchange with another one, that might not have this problem. Since I only read about this once until now there is a chance that some basses from this series are OK. By the way: how much was the Hofner style part you got and...

Do you have a solution in the meantime? Can't you give the whole bass back since this seems to be a manufacturing / construction quality problem? I own this bass for a week now and just came across this potential problem when changing the strings to flatwounds. The outer "tooth" of the metal...

I just put on Daddario ECB 81 Chromes (Long Scale) yesterday and that works very well. The sound is awesome now. On this occasion I recognized some deficiencies of the bass. The construction of the trapeze tail piece holding the ball ends of the strings seems to be a predetermined...