While looking here for a thread to add info to, I realize that I have never featured this bass by itself. I have mentioned it but only briefly here and there. I meantion this because having owned it now for 7 of its 11 years (7/11, lucky for Dice or a quick snack on the road, lol), I have a chromatic ebony C-extension made for it by its maker, Jeff Bollbach. This would be carved around the Lion with the string running thru two separate wheels without drilling a hole in its head.
This is the bass on Jeff's 'site when he made it in 2003.
Here is the bass on my site pictured in 2007.
Having a C-extension allows me to use the bass more often as most time, I need the low notes for the local orchestra gigs I do.