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funny and unusual shape indeed !
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I think you already mentioned this one before, @TheFeister! Did you end up buying one??
I tried one once, but was not convinced… cool shape though! Designed by a Swiss architect, or something along those lines???
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Yes, mentioned it and bought one.
Edit: Design by Rolf Spuler.
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This is a Spector Chris Kael CK-4 - a little bit similar in shape to the ESP @howard had shared earlier:
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I know 
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I like that ! Don’t know why but it’s simplicity appeals to me
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I like that bass!!! (and Five FingerDeath Punch ) 
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This looks exactly like the one I had. Funky vintage tone, hot pickup. Perfect for the ZZ Top, Skynrd and Allman Brothers my band played.
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I think the Longhorn, the Kala U-Bass, and the Hofner Viola Bass are probably all tied for me in the “wait - that bass made that tone?” camp. I was shocked the first time I heard an isolated Longhhorn. It did not sound like tiny single-coils.
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Exactly. I sat in a one-off/non-chain guitar store years ago, and tried out every bass they had, which, being Austin, was a hell of a lot. All the usual suspects: Fender, of course, but I had been down the Fender road a few years before and I wanted something different. At first, I was repelled by the looks and color of the Longhorn, so I just blew off auditioning it.
Until I had tried everything else. Then, holy crap! That little Danelectro short scale sounded like pissed-off thunder! Even my bud who managed the store came over to check out what I was playing. He said he hadn’t dug its looks when it first came in, but that it was a stone player. He was right and I came to love that bass that only a mother could love. Wish I still had it.
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I was going to post this anyway, but that Ampeg Scroll Bass has a successor in the current Eastwood EUB-1, described as “a tribute to the AMPEG AEB model from the late 1960’s”:
Eastwood also has these other uniquely shaped basses:
Airline Map Bass
Jetsons Jr. Bass
and the
TB64 6-String Bass, another like the EUB with a through-the-body cut-out.
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5FDP
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i think that nobody does crazy/cool basses like brute does these days. NOT for everybody.
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