At last. It's here.
I knew it had an old neck break coming loose again.
But the neck break is worse than I had hoped it would be.
There's a crack on the E-side of the neck that runs from the top down to the 9th fret. The seller did not make a picture from this side of the neck.
The other side shows a clean short crack that would have been easy to fix.
I am happy the bass is finally here. And slightly disappointed I won't be able to fix it myself.
I did have a worst case scenario in the back of my head. So now it's over to plan B: The luthier.
The M-85 fits my Hobbit family well. Lots of similarities.