"It is untypical bass"

[Panamonte]

Er, yes it is. Made to order - presumably as a travel bass. Um....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22-5-scale-Headless-Fretless-Bass-Luthier-Guitar-/121724055685?hash=item1c5751b085

[tauzero]

I like it. Guaranteed to turn heads at the Dog and Duck.

[Bassassin]

That's cool, whatever it is!

Not sure it's worth £150+ though, by his own admission the pickup's crap, and the neck (hopefully just a result of the camera angle) looks alarmingly twisted. And why's it strung with guitar strings?

Jon.

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1438947741' post='2838865']
That's cool, whatever it is!

Not sure it's worth £150+ though, by his own admission the pickup's crap, and the neck (hopefully just a result of the camera angle) looks alarmingly twisted. And why's it strung with guitar strings?

Jon.
[/quote]

Probably because he couldn't get any bass strings to make it sound good. The scale length is 22.5" which is shorter than most guitars. Even my Fernandes Pie-Zo travel bass has a longer scale length!

[Roger2611]

Cool, I like it...don't want it, but I like it

[alyctes]

Whoa! That is [i]odd[/i]. I like it a lot. No money, obviously...

[Annoying Twit]

I would guess that those steel on silk strings mentioned in a thread on uke basses would give a reasonable tension tuned to EADG, as the uke bass they were on had a similar scale length.

Personally I do think it's interesting, but don't want to buy it myself.

EDIT: Pyramid copper wound strings on a silk core, which are reported to work on a kala u-bass.

Edited August 8, 2015 by Annoying Twit