This #bass got a new life today as a Tenor 5-string - E-to-C. It had frustrated me for years in tone and playability and now that I changed the strings and gave it a full setup, it sounds and plays so much better.
Relatively short scale (compared to my other basses), neck-through for sustain and high-register access, narrow string spacing. It makes so much sense for it to be the way it is now, in hindsight.