Sometimes parts are just meant to go together. It's their destiny. This is one of those times. I picked up the loaded neck here in the classifieds about a month ago, looked like a nice neck and it was a good deal so I figured why not? I didn't have anything to put it on in particular, though I have several p and j bodies running around here. But nothing seemed to feel right for the neck. Wasn't sure why, because I really like the neck.
Then about a week ago, a loaded body came up in the classifieds. It was a (warmoth) slab P body, which is my favorite, had split coil PBass pickups (EMG GZR's), A threaded Saddle bridge (also my fav), The bridge ashtray, and two pickguards... A black one and the white one ... and was also a deal I couldn't pass up. Anyway, I am at home recovering from surgery I had on Monday, not doing much of anything except lying down, and the UPS man delivered the body. Of course the first thing I had to do was try the neck in the pocket, and from there the deal was sealed. I bolted up the body, literally had to do zero tweaking to the neck, was perfect action right away, the only thing that I had to do at all was bringing in the E string saddle about 1/16 of an inch for intonation. Everything else was spot on ! As some of you know I've built and assembled a ton of basses, easily in the hundreds. It's extremely rare when you bolt them up and have to do literally no real tweaking to get everything to be in perfect harmony.
This bass sounds fantastic, looks great, and weighs under 9 pounds even with the ashtray!
It's a winner !
Then about a week ago, a loaded body came up in the classifieds. It was a (warmoth) slab P body, which is my favorite, had split coil PBass pickups (EMG GZR's), A threaded Saddle bridge (also my fav), The bridge ashtray, and two pickguards... A black one and the white one ... and was also a deal I couldn't pass up. Anyway, I am at home recovering from surgery I had on Monday, not doing much of anything except lying down, and the UPS man delivered the body. Of course the first thing I had to do was try the neck in the pocket, and from there the deal was sealed. I bolted up the body, literally had to do zero tweaking to the neck, was perfect action right away, the only thing that I had to do at all was bringing in the E string saddle about 1/16 of an inch for intonation. Everything else was spot on ! As some of you know I've built and assembled a ton of basses, easily in the hundreds. It's extremely rare when you bolt them up and have to do literally no real tweaking to get everything to be in perfect harmony.
This bass sounds fantastic, looks great, and weighs under 9 pounds even with the ashtray!
It's a winner !
drool
