Yeah I won't name names, just say in the end it was just communication/expectation issue. And Jason has always been incredibly helpful with me.
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Yeah I won't name names, just say in the end it was just communication/expectation issue. And Jason has always been incredibly helpful with me.
I figured but thought I'd reach out to them and check just to cover all my bases
It’s definitely worth looking into. I think I’d be hitting that luthier up for a head stock repaint thou unless you can actually see the paint peeling up on that head stock as in it didn’t bond from factory
Regardless, Good luck on both fronts.
On a more positive note, What kinda Canadian model are you lookin to dress up?
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I'm alread it with the luthier!
My shoulder tells me an ABZ, I've heard they are the lightest. My heart tells me a Super J! Anything around 8-8.5 lbs is about all I can deal with these days. I have no idea how much Super J's weigh... I know they can't guarantee the weight but earlier in the thread someone mentioned you can have your dealer let them know to be weight conscious when they build it so that helps ease my mind
Super 4
A Super 4 can be made pretty light! I recently got a Super P 4 that is passive, one pickup, and has maple neck/pau ferro fretboard (wenge is heavier, I think). The kitchen scale says 7 lbs. 7.875 oz. (just under 3.4 kg for our saner non-USA friends). I ended up with a wide strap on it, it feels featherweight.
If you ever see an older SPZ or maybe SJZ that Z used to indicate light weight. I believe I’ve only seen them on a P but who knows.Super 4
if you keeps some specs down like no Xtop, 2 pick ups, maple neck, it’d help you get closer to that weight you’re lookin for
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The stock nuts are more than a pain to remove. I've replaced 3 with Graph Tech nuts this past year.. Each time I've had to do it, i've had to saw the nut down the middle so it would collapse upon itself (if I was lucky). Most of the time it ended up coming out in little pieces and shards. "Normal" nut removal was next to, if not impossible. That's just my experience, others may feel different...
EDIT: these were NG's and a combustion, not the Domestic line.
Lol, and my experience is the nuts usually pull out by hand if they don’t fall out on their own.
man.. I wish that was the case on the three I swapped out, lol. The first one took me almost 2 hours to get that thing out without any damage to the bass itself. The next two I had a slightly better idea on how to approach them, but still took an hour to get out without damaging the finish. Tapping with a mallet wouldn't work, heat didn't work... sawing down the center of the nut lengthwise with a .010" saw, and then carefully chipping the remainder out was the only way I could do it.
Both my Super P4 and AB-1 4 string are 7.5 lbs. Alder body, maple neck. Single pup P and two Pup AB.
I wouldn’t mind a bridge pickup on the Super, but that’s a tiny quibble.
The four strings can be very light.
I wouldn’t mind a bridge pickup on the Super, but that’s a tiny quibble.
The four strings can be very light.
Sounds like a huge pain. Good solution though, Keeping the tension off the wood edges.
Obviously both cases exist.
another would perhaps be to hot knife down the middle of it in the same fashion. smellier of course
Hot knife! That sounds way easier than sawing through it. Good suggestion. Another reason why I love TB, lol..
Thank goodness this was my personal bass. You can see the area where a little chip of wood was sacrificed on the tuner side, lol. The other two got away rather cleanly.
I'm obviously sad it happened but relieved in a way to know the nuts on the NG/Combustion have given others a hard time to.
My guy has always been very good and consistent, he's been a luthier longer than I've been alive and I'm pretty old but mistakes and accidents happen!
Thanks all!
I have an electric hot knife which is great for stuff like this.
I remember when I was a kid tinkering, “building” things how easy it was to chip the surfaces away around my “construction” areas and it always pissed me right off. I wonder if there is a name for this disorder I have now!!! Hahah.
Chipaphobia?
JFB is the gold standard, IMO, in customer service. Jason at FretNation is also excellent.
I had an excellent interaction with JFB. It was just over a new gig bag, so not a big order for him at all. But the customer service was as though I was spending $8K on a new custom build.
Also, I contacted Dingwall ([email protected]) about some RF interference I was receiving on my 2010 LSS when in active mode. They sent out a ferrite bead free of charge for a 12 year old bass - pretty classy!
Also, I contacted Dingwall ([email protected]) about some RF interference I was receiving on my 2010 LSS when in active mode. They sent out a ferrite bead free of charge for a 12 year old bass - pretty classy!
