Pictures are in the works! I need to clean up the paintwork and drop-fill a couple of dents, then fit the tug bar (and work out where to locate it).
Sound wise it basically has a P bass sonic footprint. Maybe a little less girth to the tone, but that is probably psychoacoustics at work! I will see how well I get on with the stock pickups, as a lot of folk seem to swap them out and generally not get on with them. The tone control is pretty powerful. If you roll it down it gets pretty dark and thumpy. At 10 however the bass is surprisingly bright. In a weird way it reminds me of my Ibanez Axstar bass: the tone seems to be more about the pickups and control settings, and it sounds like a more direct reproduction of the strings, and every tap and knock you put into them. Maybe not the most organic tone ever. I find that my P bass, and other I've tried, tend to 'level' the tone more into typical P bass territory. The P bass tone is in there, but it seems a bit more responsive to playing variables.
I will need to adjust my technique slightly, as I think I'm being a bit rough on it, having transitioned off my P bass which takes a bit of wrestling. The neck has maybe a wee bit too much relief, so I get that 'squack' sound off the higher frets, even plucking a bit lighter than on my 34'' basses.
Only thing I've noticed is that after adjusting the action and intonation the G string has quickly gone a bit duller and more typically 'flatwound' in tone than the other three. Not a big concern, trusting that there is nothing up with the string itself. At the moment the saddles are quite low, so I might build a shim for the bass out of plastic card. The set-screws for the saddles project quite far out of the saddle themselves, and I do palm-mute on occasion.
Speaking of bridges, I'm sure I saw reference to an early Stingray prototype with a Mustang bridge, P bass neck and pickup, albeit with a Stingray-shaped body?
