This may be a little premature but im super excited by this.
Ola strandberg posted this on fb with the phrase something is cooking #bodenbass.
my main bass is a sublime xylem custom so its rare for a new bass to excite me but ill be preordering one of these asap.
I treated myself to a boden os6 guitar last year and its so far ahead of the competition in terms of playabity and erganomics. The endurneck really does make such a difference, strange at first but so comfortable.
Since my initial post above, having ambled through the various music shops in Tokyo, the picture hasn't changed much.
More of the 4 and 5 strings have come into stock, and almost invariably they sit around for a long time. The 4-strings have already experienced a first round of discounts (15% or so?), but they're mostly still there.
Every one i've seen, or picked up, comes with high action from factory, and the finish-quality is the same as the very first one I tried... so that was not