I picked up a Squier Affinity from Sweetwater a year or 2 ago to have as a backup and as a practice mule both to play and learn to set up. Last week I finally had the parts and time to do the mods and set it up. I got a string action guage from stew Mac, a set of DiMarzio pups from a friend, a roll of copper tape, and a Squier bridge off eBay. I used resources on TB, YouTube, and bass guitar for dummies to figure out what to do. I did all the hardware swap in one day.. my shielding is kinda sloppy, but effective, and it was not difficult or scary to do the soldering as I've done it before on other things. The next day was actually the harder part of adjusting the action, intonation, and pup height. I got it pretty well dialed in the first time, but I'm still making micro adjustments particularly on the action. I didn't mess with the truss rod at all as the neck is straight and takes very low action. I'm glad bc that part makes me kind of nervous :/. Anyway the project was super fun and rewarding, and it turned a cheapy decent playing bass into a great playing and sounding axe. I think the biggest surprise was how nice the neck turned out to be on this thing once I got it set up. It's no MIA pbass but it's really sweet nonetheless, and the fretboard is a really nice piece of rosewood with dark and light streaks..
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