tauzero

For moderately or very common instruments, check Ebay sold listings. That will give some idea.

Funnily enough, I keep thinking that @Supernaut's avatar is Scooby Doo when I see it out of the corner of my eye.

You do know that "disposable" means it's disposed on rent/mortgage, food, utility bills, etc, don't you?

Presonus Studio 24c connected to Pi 5 and recognised straight away. Configured to 48kHz sample rate, 64/4 for buffers, showing a latency of 5.3mS. Now I've got to work out how to connect something up to the input and the output, with everything precariously balanced on my desk and my chair occupied by my circular saw until I can get the new blade for it and take it back to the shed (the floor is fully occupied). Things will get better once Mrs Zero gives me the go-ahead to move into Sub Zero's former room.

"Hello police, this is FMIC. Someone has raided the dumpsters that we were using to carefully store our newly acquired inventory and made off with lots of stuff".

Same as you, when I was working in the office I took lunch in with me, and a copy of Private Eye, so I didn't buy anything form a newsagent either. The I was WFH from the start of lockdown until I retired at the end of 2022. It saves companies money because they can get shot of their offices, and saves employees money because they no longer have to pay to commute. So that means more available money to spend in other ways than on petrol, and for companies the possibility of either better pay rises or other investment.

Procell. If the clip is loose, it can be gently squeezed with a pair of pliers to make it tighter.

If you can hold out till December, Gardiner Houlgate have a left-handed Wal Mk 3 five-string with both fretted and fretless necks in their next auction - https://www.guitar-auctions.co.uk/sale/249/161/1989-Wal-Mark-3-frettedfretless-lefthanded-bass-guitar-made-in-England. That give you time to save up.

It's also not a standard scratchplate and the routing on the OLP bodies is just massive trenches (shame, a clear scratchplate would be nice otherwise) so the previous owner might just have decided to relocate the controls. Although I would associate a diamond layout more with a two-pickup bass.

If you've got an airing cupboard, put the heads in there to help them dry out. Might be worth doing a bit of a strip down to the soldering station to see what's happened in there.

I had one - it couldn't keep up with a quite quiet band which didn't have a drummer, just a cajon.

I'm halfway to making a circular saw sled inspired by @Bill Fitzmaurice's sled as outlined in his subwoofer plans - I've screwed a length of batten the same length as the width of the ply sheet to the end of the ply sheet. Next stage, when I've got a decent blade for my (t)rusty Black & Decker [1][2], is to cut across the sheet with the batten as a guide, and then all I have to do is put the edge of the sled along the line I want to cut and it will cut along it. That's the plan, anyway. [1] Whose sister Carol did such a magnificent job of singing for T'Pau [2] That should double its value

The finish is lovely. Or at least it is on mine. Photoflame? Seems to be quilted maple according to every description I've found. Neck is chunkier than I like, but it would be a good donor body for a graphite neck. Just deciding whether to order one off @Kiwi.

Mine are both fabric backed over the neoprene so no more grippy than the average strap. Can't answer for the squeaky end tag, mine are all Schaller straplock equipped and don't make any nasty noises. I have one each of the ones above, no problems.

Electronics or pickup issue then. You could try connecting the pickup(s) direct to the jack socket and see what happens to the volume.