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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...