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That ash body looks like a nice bit of wood. It would be a shame to cover it up with paint.

There's no electrical detail for the 10.5 but it's half an Omni 10, so the two relevant options are Parallel - gives higher sensitivity for a brighter sound Series - reduces tweeter output if option 1 is too bright My guess is that the switch is simply to cut the tweeters out. The tweeters go in parallel with the woofer, + to +, and the speakons go 1+/1- to + and -. You could get all sophisticated and work out a way of switching between no tweeter, series tweeters, and parallel tweeters. But first you'll need to work out where the other ends of all the wires go, and maybe label them all.

Thomann have a couple of 32"/812mm scale 5-string acoustic basses, so they do exist.

I have the plans for the Omni somewhere but can't find them at the moment.

The Phil and Holly of the bass world.

Preferences for neck profile, through neck or bolt-on? Push the boat out and go headless? There's Cort and Hohner as well as your list, and you might even find a Shuker at a bargain price.

Warwick JD Thumb 5-string. I've only ever seen one and it was when my finances were at a rather low ebb so I couldn't buy it.

ITYF (as I've said twice already) that it's not 5 x base plus 2 octaves, but 15 separate strings (see video immediately above) as string selection for a 15 equivalent to a 12 would be similar to the string selection for my 10-string Dean (BEADG plus octaves) but with 5 extra octave strings.

I'm not.

Yes. EDIT: SB310, MIJ.

This is one of those ironing board 15-strings, isn't it, not the next step up from a 12-string (a 5-string with two octave strings per base string). I'd take off the middle string, defret the treble half of the fretboard, and have a seven-string fretted alongside a seven-string fretless (B-F), like a bionic Ashula, then I'd never touch it again.

FB marketplace, Gumtree, Ebay - Squier, Harley Benton, G4M and possibly Cort, Ibanez, and Peavey.

Have you got any way of powering the QMX from a 9V battery? Just wondering if the power supply might be the problem.

OTOH, I bought my first Warwick after splitting up with my first wife. I subsequently had a number of girlfriends and two further wives (mostly consecutively) and so I would conclude that owning a Warwick (or two, or three) made me more attractive to the opposite sex (no experiments were performed to find out if I was more attractive to the same sex).

I had a fretless. Really nice to play, the reason I moved it on was that it was incredibly light and I was coming from a succession of basses that started with a Hayman 40/40, then a couple of Ps, then a Warwick Thumb, and it just felt so insubstantial. I'd like to try a fretless 5 sometime.

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Is that obligatory?

Cast around for open mics. I've encountered a wide variety of them, from being almost the youngest and rockiest there at one to being the oldest and folkiest at another.

I'm not so sure that no-one can play half the stuff in the videos - that's going to depend on whether the people creating the original content were able to play it at the speed at which it was shown in video, rather than the ability of the content thief to play it.

Check if there is actually some relief in the neck (hold down a string at the first fret and the top fret and make sure there's clearance in the middle of the string). If you have relief, you could try shimming the neck to raise the headstock end.

The bag I mentioned upthread is a fishing bag, and the smaller bag that sometimes lives in it is a tool bag.

Not as far as some. 280 miles or so round trip to pick up an Ibanez EHB1265MS from Surrey. And a 380 mile or so round trip to pick up a Trace Elliott 4x10 combo. That didn't stay long after my first gig with it was up two flights of stairs.

So you could go one way round out, the other way back, and make it a genuine round trip.

A fundamental point about Thumbs is the year they were made. Early ones have lovely slim necks, then at some point in the 90s they became horrible engorged monsters, and apparently they've slimmed down again. Also, how many strings? And Thumb NT or BO?

Could it just be that the headstock has been banged very hard on something which has sheered a section off along the grain?