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Just like most of the florid text we spout when describing the virtues of whichever new bass flame has been taken home

Sounds like fun but I can't afford things this nice. Can vouch for Estonia, though. Well, Tallinn at least.

Unfortunately there's not much standards when it comes to full size tuners. Usually just a little bit out unless you do a 100% like for like replacement.

Mmm, that's probably the nicest colour the 414 was issued in.

Fill and redrill really isn't a big deal of a job. If you get new tuners with a similar shaped/sized baseplate then they'll cover the filled old holes. You'll spend longer searching for that perfect drop in replacement (if it even exists) than you'd spend with some glue, some cocktail sticks and a drlll...

I don't trust anyone who uses a verb as an adjective...

That's pure incompetence, coupled with laziness - "they won't vary by much" - uhh, wood be woody.

So, safe to say that you lean to the right then?

Bad reasons are still reasons...

No.

Going a bit older there was a BB350F

Right, if I'm being super strict (must be able to walk into a shop, today and buy) it's slim pickings up here but I'd go to Kenny's Music in Aberdeen and buy this for £250: https://www.kennysmusic.co.uk/yamaha-trbx174ew-4-string-bass-exotic-wood-tobacco-brown-sunburst-p148 I would have a poke about in RamJam (2nd hand guitar shop) to see what they had first.

Looks like a Squier Paranormal Jazz '54 to me: https://www.fender.com/en-GB/squier-electric-basses/jazz-bass/paranormal-jazz-bass-54/0377100500.html

The bass body is just the chair next to it after Salvador Dali was finished with it?

Ooh, props! Haven't tried that yet.

Yes, it can. Might be quite a hot/loud signal - the DI out from my amp needs to be padded at the mixer. Assume it's hot and work your way up rather than the other way round.

In a song like that (I'm looking at you, Highway to Hell), I don't do nothing while I wait for the chorus. I ham up pretending to sleep. I get a chair and take a seat. I go sit with some punters at a nearby table. I annoy people into getting off their butts and onto the dance floor. I clap above my head.

Multitasking is the worst

I fear I may have misinterpreted your remark as snarky, my apologies for doing so and sorry for the less than constructive response to that perceived snarkiness. Having looked at the vid and website again, it certainly is different and pretty nifty but I can't really get along with the execution. Like I said before, I really don't like the visible wire to the pickup on the outside. It doesn't look like it's going to work for people (like me) who rest their thumb on the pickup when playing the E string. The headstock is not great - very anonymous and why do it in such a way that the strings have to go at such angles after the nut? The whole thing just looks a bit "prototype-y" and unfinished while also looking like a lot of work has gone into it - does that make any sense?

Black and gold. ONEOFUS. Lookin' good

I didn't really want to open a (lack of) tonewood can of worms...

Supplemental question - if I rest my thumb on the floaty pickup, like I do on all my other basses, am I just going to push it south?

It would help if you could enlighten us as to why you posted it then. You didn't even attempt to guide the narrative, so you can't really complain when it doesn't pan out the way you had hoped.

I'll just leave these here. I really don't like the visible wire on the Verso.

Small venue? Your amp alone ought to be fine - what amp is it (speaker size, power)? Sometimes I take the DI out from the amp and put it through the PA, but it's at a low level and just for a bit of "width". The majority of the bass comes from my amp.