Hopeful...

[TheGreek]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bass-guitar-5-strings-blue-There-is-a-little-chip-on-the-back-of-the-guitar/233309998297?hash=item36525c0cd9:g:vkwAAOSwTj9dTqSQ

[alyctes]

Nice colour, but about 3x the going rate... so I'm going with "hopelessly over-optimistic" rather than "hopeful", personally.

[LewisK1975]

£100 a string innit. 

[prowla]

Now trying at £300...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bass-guitar-5-strings-blue-There-is-a-little-chip-on-the-back-of-the-guitar/233315507718

[Maude]

I'm generally a fairly placid chap but stringing like that does bring out the psychopathic masked chainsaw murderer in me. 

[BreadBin]

3 minutes ago, Maude said:

I'm generally a fairly placid chap but stringing like that does bring out the psychopathic masked chainsaw murderer in me. 

The string routing is correct, it's just the lack of trimming that's wrong 👍

[Maude]

Poke the string down the bloody hole first. 

I'm mixing up the two stroke as we speak! 

😄