OK, please allow me to bring this bass into existence. I bought it about a month ago at GC San Marcos, where it had been hanging on the wall for what seems like a year. I finally got in a position to rescue it.
It's a 2001 Amercan Jazz Deluxe V. It had a lot of neck relief and resulting high action, but a couple turns on the truss rod fixed that. I strung it with some new DR High Beams and got a lot of fret buzz. Why? Because 4 of the 5 strings in the set are taperwound (usually its just the B string or B and E), so I had to raise the bridge saddles. Buzz gone, still medium low action, my preference. The new strings were too boingy for me at first, as usual, but they're starting to mellow out just right.
I've been playing it through my WW Ultra, D-210XLT and D-115XL. It has great tone, from a nice, aggressive bark from the bridge pickup to plenty of boomy bottom from the neck pickup. The neck isn't quite as fast as those on my Lakland and Sadowsky basses, but still quite playable.
I don't know what they call the color, but it's cool, and I like the mint green pickguard on this one (I usually prefer tort, but this works). So there you have it. This will have to hold me over another month or so until the Tuxedo Bass shows up from Roger's shop.
