Built by Terry or Pat??

[TheGreek]

Cos it's definitely been butchered..

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/custom-short-scale-bass-guitar/1302022615

[alyctes]

How are you supposed to tune it?

[Happy Jack]

I have a horrible feeling that it involves using a screwdriver on the screws shown in photo #6.

So this is what - a sawn-off, fully-loaded Strat guitar body with a Jap headless neck screwed to it? Even if the neck came from a short-scale bass (30.5") it's hard to imagine that the frets will be in the right place for a guitar (25.5") hybrid monstrosity like this.

[TheGreek]

Not content with ruining one musical instrument - needed to do two...

[Bassassin]

It's a chopped-up Strat copy with home-made string retainers/"tuners" & strung with bass strings.

Odd thing is, if they'd used budget headless hardware (the Chinese Hohner copy stuff that's about £30) they'd have saved themselves a lot of metalwork & could have spent that time routing for P/J pups & making a scratchplate.

And they'd have had something that worked, too.

[Dan Dare]

"Real bargain for the festival season". Great for banging in tent pegs...

[paul_5]

Erm, through body stringing should involve a shallower angle that that shouldn't it? Those just nose-dive through the body!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The neck looks like a standard cheapo strat copy with the headstock sawn off rather than an originally headless neck. It looks like the string retainer thingy might make it difficult or impossible to get an allen key in to adjust the truss rod.