Poor critter looks like it’s missing it’s right arm.
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That’s cool. Every taste is valid.
Personally, I totally dig the unique, bold bass design choices this custom builder made, with the size/shape/color of the pickguard being a great canvas that makes the hardware and controls pop beautifully.
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I get replicating features. But the features aren’t there, just an empty mounting hole for that feature…not sure I can justify that.
Yep this is my take too. Fender is just weird this way for manufacturing new instruments with all the design flaws of the original. They should never have made an instrument with the crazy neck heel truss rod after the first ones, the tug bars were just a bad idea mis-anticipating how people would play the instrument, and the pickup covers are often removed because they got in the way. Making an instrument now with all the original mounting holes is just twee.
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Back in the early days of electric bass, players made use of the tug bar and plucked with their thumbs. Some are even still with us. Keep on thumpin’!
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I like the shape of this bass, but not the shape of the pick-ups, although they kind‘a work with the other straight edges. Pick-up shape for a multi-scale is something that Dingwall have absolutely got right, IMHO. The Dingwall rounded edges provide a great thumb anchor point. I assume with this, you would end up anchor in the ‘valleys’ in between…
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This is probably not orthodox teaching: but with a lot of 5-strings, the thumb anchor often is the B string 
It is for me, and then the thumb moves to the E and sometimes to the A string, but usually never further. Leaving the thumb always in place on a thumb rest would require your fingers to spread more as you pluck higher strings (especially on a 5er) and also render the thumb useless for muting.
So, I would think this is a non-issue with the non-rounded corners, but, of course, personal preferences do matter and will come into play 
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Interesting point. I’ve not played a 5, so it didn’t occur to me that you might primarily be anchored on the B.
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This^^^
anyone got £20k to £40k so spare?
“The auction value of a bass guitar once owned by The Who’s John Entwistle has dramatically tripled, following a remarkable discovery linking it to Queen’s John Deacon.
Initially forecast to fetch £10,000, the 1986 Warwick Buzzard is now estimated to sell for between £20,000 and £40,000.
This significant increase comes after a meticulous analysis of the instrument’s distinctive wood grain. Experts confirmed it was the very same bass played by Queen’s John Deacon during their iconic 1986 Montreux Pop Festival performance.
The grain-matching technique also revealed its appearance in Queen’s 1986 video for their top 20 hit, ‘Friends Will Be Friends’.
The bass guitar is now thought to have been lent to Queen by Entwistle.”
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To be fair that’s only 10x what a new masterbuilt Buzzard costs.
No, no, it’s still ridiculous.
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I never really started using true floating thumb (not to be confused with moving anchors) until I started playing fivers, and that just feels super good to me now. I don’t really anchor per se now, other than laying the thumb over the top of whatever strings I’m not playing. As such, these pickups would be a total non-issue.
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I began using floating thumb years ago. I came from playing fingerstyle guitar Country Blues/Travis style), where my thumb played the alternating bass line as my three fingers on my plucking hand played the melody.
Anchoring my thumb for playing bass always felt alien and wrong to me. So I just use the side of my thumb to mute lower strings as I pluck higher ones. I came to learn that’s what fiver jockeys do. Who knew? As far as I’m concerned, it’s just been my natural go-to playing style.
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Probably a nice bass, but I caught epilepsy by looking at the picture! 
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Reverend Mike Watt Wattplower MKII Bass Guitar - Watt Yellow
I think I want one… interesting pickups
Also comes in root beer
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These have always looked cool to me. Actually most Reverends do, seem like really interesting basses. Pretty sure @faydout has that first one in that color.
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Oooh root beer…
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