It’s good to have a project now and again to work on, if you like the bass and fancy restoring it are you able to get the seller to accept a lower price given the work you have to do , looks quite cool
I used to anchor on the pickups to play all strings until I switched to 5 string, when I started using the floating thumb thing, now I only play 4’s I rest on the string below automatically, basically the same as ez mentioned above