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I just remembered one more thing worthy of a complaint…. This was the first thing I worked on, so it got buried in the back of my mind over the course of the build. The pickup cavity is routed very tightly. I had to remove overspray from inside the pickup cavity with a Dremel. I actually...

If I had to complain about anything, it’s the truss rod channel cut into the body…or it could be the 7/32” Allen wrench for truss rod adjustment. In the past, with the parts Jazz basses with Warmoth necks I have put together, I bought my own wrenches. The necks were installed onto Squier...

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Oh, and one more thing. I watched a bunch of Aaron’s videos in anticipation of doing this build, and I have to say that one piece of advice with the Roasted Maple neck is worth a million dollars - add a light dab of bees wax to the screws entering the neck, be they neck attachment screws, tuner...

I already have a couple of Jazz 5 parts basses, both with Squier bodies and Warmoth necks, fretted and fretless. But I wanted to do a full-Warmoth build. Since I discovered the Jazz bass for myself about 10 years ago, it’s no wonder that you can have multiples of one bass and still need more...

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Continued from above: Fretted

I have 2 roasted maple Jazz 5 necks, one Fretted and one Fretless. The Fretless is from November 2018 and the Fretted is from January 2022 I really love the feel of these necks unfinished. I can’t believe how smooth Warmoth gets them. They are much smoother than my G&L neck, which I think is...

My opinion: If I’m getting an exotic fretboard, say like Flame Maple or Birdseye Maple, I will opt for dot inlays for the exact reason you mention. A large block inlay on a Flame Maple fretboard just takes away a lot of real estate of gorgeous flame. Plain Maple - blocks galore! With Wenge...

Another tidbit I noticed is that when building a Custom Body, the MM 5 Sweet Spot pickup does not appear in the visualizer. It is just a blank body without a pickup route. Like so: Above body built as Roasted Swamp Ash Rear Route with 4 controls MM5 Sweet Spot pickup Hipshot A Bridge...

But if Warmoth already carries Hipshot A bridges, I don’t see why Warmoth can’t carry Hipshot KickAss bridges…just sayin’… (And it’ll be a better product, too)

I see there is a Hipshot A available for 5-string basses, along with the Schaller 496…but that’s it. I am really hoping that the BadAss option will return as time goes on…even though the BadAss is no longer in production, at least 2 other companies make clones…including Hipshot in the...

But dammit, this one doesn’t look half bad… https://warmoth.com/index.php/bass-necks/deluxe5-4-1/d5n-1599-30306 https://warmoth.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/d/5/d5n-1614a.JPG.jpg...

The bass will be a Stingray-inspired build. Rear route, no PG or plate, one pickup. I only used that photo for color and neck reference.

Right now, there are a few Roasted Flame Maple Deluxe necks in the showcase (none of which have spec’s I want…like 1-7/8” nut and 22 fret with cream dots). But they don’t seem to be all that “flamey” https://warmoth.com/bass-necks/deluxe5-4-1 What I normally compare flame quality to is my G&L...