A couple of years ago I bought a very cheap Epiphone Rivoli reissue. It was dead cheap because it had a fixed neck break (a good repair, but visible from the front) and underneath the chrome pickup cover was a Jazz Bass pickup mounted. They'd just sawn off the sides to make it fit.
I still had a Darkstar and a Duesenburg bass humbucker (in fact a six pole guitar humbucker) and a friend of mine mounted it in the bass. It now has two volumes and a pickup selector switch. I pick it up somewhere this week and I hope I like it:)
The idea was to give it a bit of a The Strokes feel: A natural bass with black/chrome pickups. Here it is:
