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I just did a search to see if anyone had identified it and hit this thread. Just been watching and got this far: Sunburst 5 string bass Maple fretboard & neck Chrome hardware Stingray-looking headstock, 4+1 with a downwards point No scratchplate (hurrah!) P (neck) and reverse P (bridge) pickups Controls are three in a horizontal straight line, with three in an arc below them - my guess is V/B/T (treble cut) on the top, bass/mid/treble on the bottom I would guess at Sadowsky as that's their headstock shape and they do custom FSOs, generally avoiding the cheap look of scratchplates, although their controls tend to be in a J-sloping straight line.

They do line up quite neatly so they don't look out of place.

Regardless of the grooviness of it, it is jolly pretty. Now all you need are brushed stainless steel knobs and tuners to match...

Except that that isn't what we've been on about. Have a look at the bridge below and see if you can spot the grooves on the base plate.

Where did you manage to find that? I've been hunting for a comparison between the two. DuckDuckGo's search assist gets confused and compares apples and lunar landing modules:

IIRC you then see a fight breaking out between old and new band through the control room window in the background.

Go into "My Attachments". Open the particular image.png that you want to rename (I use Irfanview) and save it as a named file (preferably a .jpg), resized if desired. Then look at the right-hand side of the "My Attachments" page, open the post that the image is in by clicking on it, and edit it - replace image.png with the named file, then remove that particular image.png. A bit laborious but you get it done in the end.

Lovely looking basses, shame they're 4s not 5s (not surprising as they're late 70s when 5-string basses were yet to become established).

It would be handy if you did have that superpower though. We could deploy you every time Fender threatened to bring out another pointless variation on their limited themes, or anybody said they'd be bringing out another bloody relic.

String spacing again a bit narrow, but I'd forgotten Hohner - there's the B V (with body and head), Jack V (headless with body) and the B2AV (cricket bat headless) - the B2AV has a passive variant, the B2V, which IME doesn't sound as good.

I suspect that too.

So if Neeps buys it, they decide they won't make it?

Very cunningly concealed, they're completely invisible.

Gibsons are readily converted to headless though.

My preference is for neck-through basses, which is a bit limiting as it rules out FSOs and MMSOs (although I do have one of the former and two of the latter). That leaves me with hoping another Antoniotsai 5-string comes up, going for a Mazeti if one comes up, or looking at the Harley Benton BZ-5000 from Thomann or the Chicago 5-string through-neck from Gear4Music, neither of which I've played. Or maybe playing roulette and going for something from AliExpress. Or a second-hand Ibanez BTB (not the bolt-on ones).

For reference on the sound, Pete Trewavas has used the 4 string version with Marillion as well as his Warwick Thumb - for example

Not my cup of Earl Grey, especially as it's a P without enough strings, but it looks to have been very well done.

Every manufacturer must produce a fan-fret headless bass with at least five strings (a four string option is permitted), with the exception of Fender, who have been given a 50 year grace period to adjust and to find some other huge pointless piece of wood that they can put their logo on.

Just noticed that my old Cort GB5 Custom is now for sale, and relatively close to you.

With your preference for somewhat fatter necks, you could have a look for a second-hand Cort GB5 Custom (or the GB95 Custom, same bass, made in different countries). J/MM pickups rather than straight J, great build quality. I sold mine only because my preference is for the slimmer neck. They're not baseball bat sized, but just a bit fatter than I like.

There may well be no (noticeable) bugs but there's potentially more effects.

Lovely piece of work.

Or on video?

The jack end of the cable is easy enough, I've always hated soldering DIN plugs. Especially when you forget to put the body onto the cable before doing the soldering.

I wasn't talking about those posts, I was talking about the various posts (for example) in the NAMM thread about Sadowskys and how ridiculously overpriced the various custom shop and Metroline ones are by people who probably aren't interested in buying them in the first place. Like me.