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Bassheart365 said:
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drool

A Dingwall with a Wenge neck is a real dream of mine!

That ABHS in the classifieds has me all wound up because the exact bass I've wanted for quite some time now...but I can't swing that kind of price tag.

I'll be getting my 2017 bonus at work this Friday (don't know what it will be yet...), and I've convinced myself if I somehow win the bonus lottery and I am a rich man on Friday that I'll buy it....buuuuuut life doesn't tend to work out that way.

A Z3 with a Wenge neck is one of those "someday" things for me...
 
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#19,722
Waltsdog said:
Pretty sure your 2017 Combustion would have shipped with nickel strings.
The clank is most likely a combination of brand new strings and the action being a bit low for your preference.
Play it for a couple of weeks and the strings will mellow, loosen the truss a 1/4 turn and you’ll lose a lot of the clank (quicker and easier than adjusting the string heights imo).
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Personally, I love a low action. But of course can't stand buzz. I actually haven't seen a single Combustion/NG2 that I would consider set too low. And I did recently get in another type non-Dingwall bass where i felt a 1/4 turn off the truss rod would be helpful, and it was. Of course we all like them somewhat different and it is always possible one arrives set too low for someone's preferences, as it appears to be so in this case. Although once the strings get broken in he may want to lower it again just a bit, depending.
 
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Hambone70 said:
OK... getting used to the new Combustion!

I notice that the first two frets on the B and E strings (C, C#, F, F#) are extremely sharp (especially first-fret F on the E string). Is that a fanned fret thing? Both strings are tuned solid to B and E, and octave intonation is good. A, D, G strings OK.
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If you raised the saddles to get higher action, intonation is critical. Its not rocket science, or I couldn't do it lol.

Sheldon has a series of YouTube videos that walk you through step by step how to set up your combustion to your tastes. I'd check those out before I do anything to the nut.

I may have missed it, but was the bass set up for larger strings/differs tuning at any point?
 
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EMoneySC2 said:
drool

A Dingwall with a Wenge neck is a real dream of mine!

That ABHS in the classifieds has me all wound up because the exact bass I've wanted for quite some time now...but I can't swing that kind of price tag.

I'll be getting my 2017 bonus at work this Friday (don't know what it will be yet...), and I've convinced myself if I somehow win the bonus lottery and I am a rich man on Friday that I'll buy it....buuuuuut life doesn't tend to work out that way.

A Z3 with a Wenge neck is one of those "someday" things for me...
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All in good time my friend...
 
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Jeff Roller said:
If you raised the saddles to get higher action, intonation is critical. Its not rocket science, or I couldn't do it lol.

Sheldon has a series of YouTube videos that walk you through step by step how to set up your combustion to your tastes. I'd check those out before I do anything to the nut.

I may have missed it, but was the bass set up for larger strings/differs tuning at any point?
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Yes, and even neck relief will change intonation. I'm working on a similar 2017 Combustion/NG and the intonation is dead on down low. I do lower the pickups on all my Dingwalls, so that's in my mix too.
 
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Also this:

This showed up towards the end of the week last week, but with a good weekend slate of shows, I held off until last night. P-Tone going into the neck position of my NG-3.

-The operation is pretty easy, you do have to remove the middle pickup to access the channel to the control cavity, but beyond that, simple. I soldered the Black/Green together (coils in series), then a little heat shrink.

-The wiring IIRC is a little different then some of the other variants, but the provided info is intuitive. The 3X switching has you putting the negative (white) and ground (clear) to the switch's pickup-negative terminal rather than a separate ground pole. Easy stuff. I actually did this while sitting on the living room couch.

-I also returned the switch from 'reverse 3X' to standard 3X. I had found that the neck/middle series position that I'd hoped would be a winner wasn't usable on stage. Not in a tonal sense, but I did find that it was just pushing too much signal and I was having hard time with clipping along the way, even after lowering the pickups. I'm not sure where along the line there was a problem (the Monique is pretty forgiving, but that's just one of many gain stages), or if it was the strings overloading the actual pickups. It was also low-end heavy enough that I was pretty much leaving the DG 'low' control flat or result in more popping/overload when digging in, and I like to have a bit of leeway to gain or boost. But either way, back to standard for now, thinking I'll have 2+ viable switch locations between N/B parallel and maybe P-Tone solo?

-Tonight I'll test it out, only had time last night to make sure it was making sound and that the switching options sounded correct. Tonight I'll give it some time, and I want to make sure that it's playing nice with the other pickups in terms of polarity, etc. It'll be fun because I'm also working on integrating a Frazz Dazzler V.2 into my setup, so strange sounds abound.

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#19,727
Bassheart365 said:
@AB Nate - ask and you shall recieve. A couple of neck shots of my Z3. What other woods did choose for yours?

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Nice. My incoming Z will be a swamp ash body, walnut top. I'm not sure if the contrast later will be ebony or wenge. Still waiting to hear back on a few things. Neck will be wenge with mac ebony fretless board.

I decided after borrowing my friends Zon fretless for awhile that it doesn't get much better then that which had a similar body spec. The neck of course was composite with a diamond wood FB. Truly amazing instrument.

That is one sleek neck. I'm pretty stoked. I've got wenge on my SJ, maple of the Z6 and walnut on the Z5. All are amazing.

If CITES hadn't of changed things up I feel I would have introduced some bubinga into this build.

This has me thinking a bit. I know nobody really cares that much but I'd love to see the backs of some of these custom basses. Especially ones with burst finishes.

The SJ i parted with not too long ago had the most gorgeous back I've seen IMO. I'll start with a couple of back photos and if anyone else wants to humor and contribute to this "gallery of backsides" please do so.

Let's get some backside love happening here. Lol.
 
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AB Nate said:
Is that northern ash body?
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I don't know that Sheldon ever specified. It's dual density, but often times the differences amount to weight over species anyway IIRC. While Zebra spec has sort of flexed over the years it traditionally was 'dual density ash' with black filled grain (Thus the name Zebra).
 
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BurningSkies said:
I don't know that Sheldon ever specified. It's dual density, but often times the differences amount to weight over species anyway IIRC. While Zebra spec has sort of flexed over the years it traditionally was 'dual density ash' with black filled grain (Thus the name Zebra).
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I see. Did not know that. I actually had an assumption in my brain that the northern ash had the darker more eye catching grains where as the swamp is the more traditional in appearance ash. hmmm a little research may be in order.
 
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AB Nate said:
I see. Did not know that. I actually had an assumption in my brain that the northern ash had the darker more eye catching grains where as the swamp is the more traditional in appearance ash. hmmm a little research may be in order.
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"swamp ash" I don't believe to be an actual species. It usually connotes lighter wood than otherwise. From when I was working with USACG on a custom Telecaster, I found out some interesting stuff...like some trees have both light (less dense) and heavy woods depending upon the part of the tree it's taken from.
 
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