The answers are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bass_VIIt's hard on the fingers because it has a 30" scale and it's neither guitar nor bass fingering width on the frets, and you have to use the 30" strings available, I've always just used the Fender strings for this:
.095 .075 .055 .045 .035 .025 inches, Fender stainless steel
If I play it enough of course then I callous at the right places and my hands get stronger (though I am beginning to be arthritic in the left hand, ouch.)
I also have a Japanese Jaguar baritone guitar which is yet a different scale and a very cool guitar. . . different sounds, even has a built in distortion circuit. I have it in the same sunburst finish, I love that sunburst (I also have two Jazz basses in that finish, one fretted, one fretless, and a Custom Shop Classic Stratocaster in that same finish).
I love Fenders . . . and I like these offset smaller basses, they're different, they have a thick dark sound for guitar use, very jazzy.