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Check these areas with care while moving the connector. Good light helps.

For me the power connector solderings looks bad. Try to move it, and look at the surface where solder meets the board. Are they broken?

Slightly steep price 289 €, but looks good, most likely sounds, too.

We need pictures, or it isn't back.

A torque wrench helps with adjustments.

Doesn't it feel good to be popular? Slow down sir, I'm not able to listen the songs at the speed you push them out!

Lane Poor Minima Stambaugh

In short: Chickenbackers.

Last summer I saw a garage sales. There was this pearl white Charvel. Beaten, 3 strings, dirty. If I was into 80's hair metal, that would have been it: cleaning, new strings, and lots of playing. The price was something like under £100, but it wasn't for me. Some 15 years ago I saw a pearl white (what?) Ibanez that was also beaten and dirty, but as I do not like white colour (although the fretboard was rosewood), I left it to the shop. £120 or so. Both would have been good instruments with some care (cleaning, setup, strings). Try to find one now, doable, but the prices are crazy.

Do that blind test with similar strings and come back to tell us your findings.

Fenders are from the 50's, and that was long ago. I don't think you have lost anything.

This is an old tune, but the interpretation is kool.

This was on sale here a while ago, wasn't it. Olive top?

15 strings could mean a harp bass. No frets, no fretboard at all.

Atlansia Overwater C bass was mentioned! Klein Bootsy Star bass

Jerry Auerswald Stenback Linc Luthier Spalt Pensa-Suhr Zon Manson (JPJ playing them)

My father decided to save machines and destroy young. He became a teacher. (But my grandfather was a player and had a garage until his death.)

Then, me as a player, and @agedhorse as a designer, we are interested in specs. Whether they are comparable or not is up to us players. We should want comparable, fair numbers, not marketing hype. 2 kW looks good, although it has not very good relation to reality, especially in this known case. And watts are not about loudness. dB is the right number, but without a cab and its specs, it cannot be given. (I understand marketing a bit here.) Try before you buy is the best option for us players. What is a problem, is the space where the combo is tried: I set my amp exactly the same way in big venues and in our rehearsal space, but the "thundering lows" are hidden for some reason (size matters) in the latter.

Couldn't you use a DIN7965 type of "screw" (threaded insert) in the body as an anchor? Then there would be no need to reach the insides of the bass? Maybe two M6s would be strong enough. M8s could be overkill. I use similar inserts in my electric bass bolt-on necks. To get more area under the bolts (DIN 7991), I have used spherical washers (DIN 6319). https://www.fasteners.eu/standards/din/7965/ Reminder: The slotted head is to go in first.

I am assuming this is a 3 x 5 string bass... Playing with a plectrum or fingers, then the order of the strings can be different. If there's a preferred string set (flat/RW, SS/Ni), I would start with that. Piccolo strings are pretty rare, there may be only few choices available. I suppose the bass has to be well made: to push three strings at once would feel harsh under the finger if the trio is far away from the fretboard. https://www.daddario.com/products/guitar/bass-guitar/xl-nickel-bass/exl280-nickel-wound-piccolo-bass-20-52-long-scale/

But the headline says: Final New Bass. Therefore you are still with us, belonging to Musicians Anonymous.

I have not used Dragster, although a pedal maker said that such units may not work well. Better alternative is to find a distortion that works with your basses. I tested several pedals after I found that not every pedal is functional with every bass.