NBD (Warning, Perfect for Metal) - also bonus stratbass content

I can't find much information about this bass. It was listed on Ebay as a Burny ILB-105. We know Burny is a name used by Fernandes. I ordered it last Saturday. After prodding the seller Ms_Tokyo about shipping information on the following Tuesday, I got the message, "sorry for late, will ship it today". So it just showed up (Saturday), all the way from Japan, and the good news is, it kinda is very very good. 8.3lbs and the one pickup that is working sounds great.
It needs to be cleaned up, the electronics sorted, frets seen to, etc, but it plays great.
The neck graphic says Illumina.
Perfect for Metal? I'd say.

I might even gig it tonight (always fun to shock fellow band members).

Next to it is a Strat project I just started. Wow paulinia is a light wood (Empress if it's a G&L).

So ugly it's pretty? A true work of art? Stick it in a closet and forget about it? Starkly iconoclastic?

 

It actually hangs pretty good from a strap. Unlike some aggressively pointed basses, the upper horn doesn't protrude high enough to get in the way.

 

Yeah, so I got "The Skull" all cleaned up (that name has stuck for me now), put some Roto flatwounds on it, and yeah, I'll break it in tonight at "The Cougar's Den", a top class first rate establishment I'm sure. Classic rock with a good dose of Metallica, Sabbath, Ozzy, and Ozzy. Should be fun.

Question for anybody who happens across this. Their are four female threaded holes at the corners of the bridge assembly. What would have threaded into those? A cover of some sort, bandaid dispenser, fake blood vials? Any ideas?

 

Awesome. Thanks guys. I was able to dial in the string heights with the saddles, but it's good to know there is that functionality also. Ah, shining a light does in fact show little hex head sockets down in there.

 

Thanks guys.
The only other bass I impulse bought because of it's odd looks was my beloved Danelectro '64. If I like this one half as much as that, it was money well spent.