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It's not hard to find dreamers out there! I just point and laugh.

You lower the tone...

Last night, played with Nine Lives at Wilsons in Aberdeen. Honestly, it was merely an OK gig - it wasn't very busy, but the few folk who were there were into it, including a hilariously incoherent guy who was sitting in his chair, fist pumping the air and occasionally shouting out incomprehensible things. Well, he seemed to be enjoying himself and not harming anyone so it's all good. My best mate came down to the gig as well, so cheers for the support, brother from another mother! As long as you're getting something back from the folk who are there, it makes it worthwhile. It was a "weird MIJ LP shaped bass" kind of night, with the Burny LSB-80 followed by the Greco LGB-700 into a couple of yellow and black boxes.

I've done worse, lol

There's not an appropriate reaction icon for that. Wanna give you a hug, truth be told. Best of luck, mate.

I don't even notice the fingerboard when I'm playing and I don't think I'm particularly delicate when I'm pushing down on strings. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. It's a purely aesthetic choice for me, and it sounds like I'm fortunate, because agonising over what a thin strip of wood is made of sure seems to torture and torment a few folk out there.

I never was on board with the gold knobs...

Is the bass in question fretted?

76 cents for 1.5 litres of Coke Zero? How old is this picture?

If you can find one - a G&L Tribute LB-100 or SB-2

Looks like that's the plug pulled on the website

Might not sit nicely on a carved top though...

Or, in meme terms

Your main trouble is the nature of the electronics in a JC. The pickup is low impedance, it uses a transformer tapped at various points to make the signal up to the levels required (that's what the rotary switch is controlling) and the pots are weird values like 2.5k - you can't just stick any old pickup in there because it won't work, or at least won't work properly. Coupled with the fact that mounting pickups in a hollow body bass is a lot trickier than a solid body or even a seml-hollow bass (because you are limited to pickups which can be suspended from a pickup ring) and you will perhaps understand why you don't see a lot of JCs out there with added pickups. I'm not saying it can't be done, but you're either going to have to source a second JC pickup (good luck with that) or some other low impedance pickup, or have completely separate electronics for the second pickup from pickup to jack, or you'd have to gut the whole bass and start from scratch. To that end, Mama pickups in Italy make a drop in replacement pickup for the JC, a traditional high impedance pickup which could be a starting point for a complete, ground up rewiring and at least mean you don't have to worry about finding something to fit the existing hole. Good luck whatever you decide to do, but for most people, changing the bridge or tuners on a JC is as brave as they're willing to go.