Regarding other pickup configurations on pre existing models...heres a news flash....we will in time offer all that you can dream of. Because we haven't yet doesn't prohibit us in the future.
I predict bedlam amongst the unwashed forum masses! I also predict that if any of this happens while I'm still alive, I'll be selling the children to medical facilities and taking out a 2nd mortgage on the house.
Or I'll have to get a job, maybe. I have to decide which would suck more.
I chose to do something different with the Bongo rather than the very obvious 2h Stingray and Sterling's,or hs Stingray and Sterlings.
And in spite of the naysayers and the people who - at least initially - thought it was just too weird looking, we have a winner! From what I've seen around ye olde internette, many of the detractors have come around - and how not? The Bongo works, and thank God we're not like those guitar players, always hoping that everything really turns out to be a Tele or a Strat.
Heh heh, just kidding, Jon. (Kind of.)
I've come to enjoy instruments that make people do a double take. I think this started with Heinz the Wonder Bass. Hardly anyone had seen a bass that color, and Heinz (a Stingray 5 in trans green for the uninitiated) was too good to not play in public. A certain other forum which shall go unnamed herewith, except to say that it is called the Dudepit, heh heh, went a little insane over Heinz. They called him ugly and unattractive and used all manner of insulting adjectives.
Meanwhile, Heinz and I had become a team and he remains, even after a short vacation around the USA and some neck-related adventures, the best Stingray 5 I've ever played. So I came to enjoy being identified with Heinz, and when I meet the occasional Dudepit Brother, guess which bass they simply MUST play?
The Bongo and I were perhaps a natural fit, then. Even I thought that it was a different looking bass, but you know what? One of the English guys on the forum - who was it? - published a very nice photo of a Stingray, a Bongo and a Stingray 5 out on his lawn, and it was only when I saw that photo that I realized...the Bongo really DOES look like a EBMM bass. It fits right in. It was only our initial shock that caused us to overlook that.
Anyway, I realized that 'something different' had just happened when I saw those NAMM photos of the first Bongos. And I'm still so happy that I could just dance.
....oh dont forget the five string.
Not I, sir. I never forget Heinz!
Jack
Anyway, there's not much room left on a HH Bongo, but you could probably slap a single coil in there... Freak. 
