You know in whose collection this should rightfully be, hmmmph!
And who is this upstart Petersson anyway? Never heard of his band, Sheep Track, or whatever they are called either.
I have to check but the body shape of this bass mirrors a four string protoype I have from the end of the nineties I have which with its Bartolini TCT circuit is very likely a Phil Jones creation too, in this case one of the last ones before he left Gibson. So he must have resurrected the body shape. I know that he was always hung up on the doublecut shape and wanted that to grace the nineties LP basses, but Gibson's marketing department went for the more popular and Gibson-ingrained single cut shape.
Anybody have Herr Petersson's phone number? I hear he always needs money ...
Re truss rod, I believe Gibson is there in the ultra-stable department. I have that eight-string T.M. Stevens ordered singlecut LP Bass and the neck is so stiff all I generally have to do is release it to heighten action not the other way around. It's just an eight-string, true, but the way that neck interacts with the eight-string pull i believe it could easily handle another four octave strings.