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Thank you! That part has been nagging at me, so I appreciate the positivity. I don't mind the angle, saddles zig-zag in their natural habitat.

I appreciate the tip. I should have been more clear. What I meant was that I need to attempt intonation. This was my first floating bridge. I have no problem sliding the bridge around when necessary, I was speaking to what I have read about this design, and only being able to get both top and bottom string properly intonated, moving bridge saddles around etc. , and eventually saying "good enough".

The original controls weren't wired correctly, not that the Hofner design is any more desirable (to me). Made a new control panel (poorly) with crude hand tools. Removed bridge pickup, may make a cover, but as is, is semi acoustic at the moment. 500k volume and tone (push-pull, currently disconnected), .022 capacitor (what I had on hand). Orange amp knobs. I am aware the bridge is likely placed wrong, when I have $50 for decent strings, I will then start the laborious (I have ocd bad) task of mean intonation. These changes didn't result in the outcome I hoped for, but did seem to remove a lot of honkyness (best word) from this bass, that it has always had. I expected these pickups to be of a design similar to what I had seen online of disassembled epiphone viola bass pickups, but instead they are a ceramic firebird design. I would expect the covers to be brass, but I am not a metallurgist. I should have taken pictures of that, but it made a better cat toy.

Sanity is an aspiration of only the delusional in these parts.

Thank you everyone.

I'm in the midwest of the u.s. now. Been making noises in the seclusion of my bedroom on and off since the 90's with a bass (and guitar). Only a few years back even got a proper bass amp, an Ampeg BA112 v2. Then a lil' Hartke HD25, and recently an old Peavey TNT 160 that has seen some things, and then more things. My basses are modest, a Harley Benton Beatbass VS that I've crudely rewired the control panel, and an Ibanez TMB100. Zoom B1 Four for effects. I just really like bass lines, played fingerstyle preferably.