Sweet lord lifting jesus

[Dave W]

I'm not sure it's that bad. On my Hofners the bridge is at about 40% the body length, and there's no problem with either pick or fingers (other than tight string spacing of course). The Ric bridge looks like a bit more but not dramatically more. A Gretsch Country Gentleman has the bridge at about 53% into the body (rear to front strap button), still a playable guitar. And when playing seated, what matters is the bridge location in relation to the bottom waist of the guitar body.

I can play a guitar with my arm angled like that, but that's not a comfortable way for me to play bass.

[Chris P.]

I think I told this before here, somewhere. I have a modern Höfner Verythin short scale and I reviewed the long scale. Those basses are exactly the same, neck and body wise! For the long scale they just put the bridge to the back, a couple of frets less and that's it.

[morrow]

I had to try it . Didn't work for bass at all ...