The Last Bass Outpost

So are there many different sizes of TB pickups, then? The more I read about this, the more confused I get... (leave the building to the pros, Daan... )

I thought I read somewhere that the pole pieces don’t necessarily HAVE to be right under the strings, so if I used a 6-pole “guitar” pickup in my bass, it would still work. Again, “I could be wrong”...

What are the pickups in the Les Paul basses? Are they the same size and construction as "guitar" humbuckers, or are they something completely different? I've only ever really seen pictures of these basses, I've never actually handled one...
I had a Hondo Jazz copy, with humbuckers (sort of mini-HB sized) and I'd kind of like to make something like that again, except this time with good materials. I saw an unrouted J-bass body online, and I could probably get a standard HB routing template and not screw it up too badly... and there are eleventy-billion flavors of guitar HB's, so I'm sure I can find something I like. Unless LP basses are something different, and I'm barking up the wrong tree...

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/46705484
OK, so there's a website that will do nationwide searches of Goodwill stores (for you out-of-towners, Goodwill is where people donate unwanted stuff, and it gets resold and the $ is supposedly used for charity. I've heard stories that they only give a tiny percentage of what they make, but I'm not an expert, or anything.)
Anyway, I like looking on there for stuff. About a million years ago, I got an Ovation Viper, with case, for $20 that I played for years. And, once I found the website, I got a couple Harmony/Silvertone lap-steel guitars, and sold the pickups (the "gold foil" ones all the kids go nuts for) for $ for my projects. So I just saw what looks like an Ibanez IC-300 bass. Has anyone on here had one of these, are they good? Right now the bidding is at $99, and these seem to sell for around $300. Assuming it isn't unrepairably broken, and the bidding doesn't go nuts it looks really interesting.
I haven't played one in person, but I've always been interested in these. A freind had the guitar version, a real one from the 70's with the weird triple size humbucker and it was cool.

That's 'cause Matsumoku made, like, 54326257624562 versions of these. I have a guitar like this, and the body is "caving in"- the neck joint has a tiny little block in it, and the body is completely hollow. I keep seeing these at stores, for unreal prices-$4,5,600. And almost all of them have the 3/4" action, or are missing parts. So maybe I should go sell my guitar, if it's really worth that much...

I had no idea they still existed.

THey put out a record a couple years ago, with the "Franz Ferdinand" guys, it's fun to listen to.

But that upper horn sure doesn't look good. All wobbly curve without nice tension.

Yeah, it does kind of look like it got stung by something, and swelled up, doesn't it?

I promise I'm never gonna make fun of my parents for not being able to program their VCR again! I'm sure someone who knows what they're doing could have posted these in about 30 seconds, and not the 90 minutes I've been working on this...

Let's see if this worked: