screamin deals sale Jazz Bass

[new-killer-star]

I have mostly finished assembly of my Jazz Bass from the screaming deals sale last month...

I didn't take as many build pictures this time, honestly it just went together really fast but it plays and sounds great.

The pickups are Fralin hum canceling and switchable series / parallel.

 

[amigarobbo]

Blimey that was fast, fretless?

 

[Cagey]

Very nice! I'm a big fan of J basses when I'm pretending I know what to do with one. Used to have a 5 string version almost identical to that, but I gave it away because I don't know what to do with one and decided to stop kidding myself :laughing7:

 

[new-killer-star]

It's not fretless, I usually play guitar so I just pretend to know what to do with one as well. Without frets I would be clueless.

This is actually my first bass that I have purchased (I tried a drill for one awhile ago and I had a 70s jazz bass loaned to me *for a long time* in a college when they roped me into playing bass in the jazz band, but I digress).

Still to do:
- attach the pickup cover because I think it looks neat
- maybe attach a thumbrest
- get another string tree, I only have the top 2 strings but really all 3 seem to want a string tree
- get some decent bass presets for my sorta new ax8

I ended up shielding the control cavity and the neck pickup cavity (and grounding it to the shielding in the control cavity). I did not shield the bridge pickup cavity.

 

[amigarobbo]

- get another string tree, I only have the top 2 strings but really all 3 seem to want a string tree

I've just noticed the end of the strings poking out of the tuning pegs, http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=28174.0

I can't tell from that picture but if you start the winds at the top and go down you can get a tighter break angle at the nut.

Sorry if I'm teaching my granny how to suck eggs here.