It'll only be an investigative rub, so to speak.
I'll definitely be refinishing it as I'm not a fan of natural wood basses. I'll just get the blue/purple off as I don't know what paint that is and see what's underneath paintwise. Hopefully it'll still have the original paint, or more importantly, the sealer/primer so I won't need to go back to bare wood. So many people seem so insistent on stripping all the finish off when refinishing and then have the issues of painting bare wood, unnecessary work stripping which then needs more work painting.
Thanks for the advice on pickups, but I'm not sure I want to spend ยฃ200 on them yet. I'll see what's available. Mounting dimensions and method for whatever I get is largely irrelevant as I'll be making a new scratchplate, just string width to worry about.
I've got a Hofner Club so not massively worried about get that Hofner shortscale sound as I've already got it.
I'll probably gather some parts, get the body painted and do it as a little over Christmas project.
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