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Looks really good. Headless is so much better than headed. On the practical side, can you stand it up without the tuners touching the floor?

It'll be quite tricky making it a headless though.

I think if I was going to use a certain set of effects all the time with the same settings every time, just switching the effects on and off as required, my inclination would be to go for separates. But as I want to experiment with different effects and different settings, a multifx makes more sense for me.

Is the pickup in the Stingray position? It may be that given a choice between a Music Man Stingray and a Squier Stingray, people opted for the former.

Possibly, but the body shapes aren't that similar - the top and bottom horns are quite different. They curve in towards the neck much more on the HB than on the Kala. IMNSHO the HB horns are better looking, but HB don't make a 5-string solid bass uke - yet. Come to that, Kala have abandoned the SUB. The HB does look very like another bass uke though - https://www.basscentre.com/bass-centre-ashbory-bass.html although I'm not sure if stocks of that will ever be replenished, and they're not doing a 5-string version (I asked them a few years ago).

Mine too. I'd have preferred a Cali as you can get them in fretless, unlike the SUB, and I prefer fretless for rubber-string basses.

"both necks are straight /no truss rods fitted" - translates to "Both necks are straight until you get it finished and put some strings on".

Oh good, a YOB bass for me. I think I may be able to resist.

If Jaco was alive, he'd be turning in his grave.

Peavey Cirrus 5 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266086577602 Nice all-caps description, ending "THE GUITAR HASN’T BEEN USED IN ABOUT A YEAR AND NEEDS TUNING.".

The slivers of paint may be re-attachable with a drop of glue. Better check whether you get on with it first. If you keep it and decide to refinish it, it looks as if the old finish will just chip off, which would be handy.

I find the mandolin a bit cramped on my left hand - I got an Irish bouzouki which is more comfortable, tuned to GDAE rather than GDAD.

Experimenting with the Dwarf and Duo is something on my to-do list, after some other projects are completed.

No, decided I'd got enough half-finished projects and fretless 5s.

My own fairly pointy instrument: Warwick 5-string Buzzard (the headstock is the normal Warwick paddle). Now gone but it was good fun and balanced well despite that short top horn.

Refin. That would halve the value.

I had a Rosetti Bass 7 - my first bass. From my experience of that, I'd say that the body and the electrics deserve each other.

Most of these are Precisions with a beak though.

I'm just not going to change the strings on mine. Ever. The Ibanez EHB1265MS comes with D'Addario EXL170-5SL on it - £38 from Thomann. The standard length strings are £33. Measuring up the B string on the Ibanez, it's about 37" from the ball end to where the taper is. That seems to be the same distance as ball end to silk on the Elites on a headed Warwick Thumb. So a standard set of Elites may fit on the Ibanez. I'll check it out when I next do a string change on one of the others.

So the battery can be attached at either end of the strip?

The Smooth Hound is fine, but one thing that niggles me is the choice of a centre-positive power supply. Would it really have been so difficult to go centre-negative like every[1] other pedal? [1] Hyperbole, before the pedants[2] charge in [2] Like me

Brian May doesn't play his signature bass. Or his signature guitar either, come to that. U2 have to play sets at least two hours long so Adam Clayton can play all his signature basses.

When they first came out, they were generally referred to as droopy headstocks. If there's no point on the body, it's pointless.