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NBD! Valenti #168

lowendmafia

lowendmafia

Oct 11, 2007
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Boise, Idaho
#1
Well, I ordered this a while ago from Nino and just received it last night. The perk of ordering a custom build is that you get literally everything you want in a bass. The color is aesthetics are amazing and the tone and versatility at even better. Nordy pups with the Aggie OBP-3 is the perfect combination for me. This is the 4h Valenti I have owned and the first built for me. I have nothing but good things to say about the others I owned, but there was always one thing I would have changed... Not this one., its perfect.

I have owned a lot of great basses, lakland, fender CS, Mike Lull, and many others and Nino's stuff is absolutely on par with those guys. I'd give him extra points for always building light weight, highly resonant basses though.

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#2
Beautiful! And a heads up if you haven't noticed yet but the neck alignment is off a bit. That's why the strings aren't lining up over the pickup poles better, and the G string is too far inboard. Easy fix, enjoy and congrats!
 
#5
Grissle said:
Beautiful! And a heads up if you haven't noticed yet but the neck alignment is off a bit. That's why the strings aren't lining up over the pickup poles better, and the G string is too far inboard. Easy fix, enjoy and congrats!
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Won't straightening out the neck will make the pickup alignment worse? Almost looks like the bridge needs to be moved over slightly, or get some threaded saddles and move the strings over a notch. Beautiful bass, grats!
 
#9
I think the neck could be pushed on the tuner side of headstock toward the g string and it move the strings where they need to be in regards to the pick ups and fret board. If you look at the G string you will see it sits way to far in on the fingerboard. Moving the bridge would work but so would moving the neck. And that can be done in a minute.
 
#10
Upon a second look it may be the neck alignment after all. Before doing anything drastic I'd loosen the strings, then loosen the neck screws, push the headstock towards the G side to get it to shift a little, re tighten the screws, and tune it up again. Should take but a couple of minutes and as long as you don't try to force it won't hurt to try.
 
#11
Looks right to me. Every Jazz bass I've ever seen, at certain angles, looked like the neck of the bass was bent downward out of alignment, exactly like the third pic down. It's an optical illusion.
 
#13
Bass Fund said:
Looks right to me. Every Jazz bass I've ever seen, at certain angles, looked like the neck of the bass was bent downward out of alignment, exactly like the third pic down. It's an optical illusion.
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No the neck needs to be shifted some. Both pics show the same amount of space from the side of strings to the edge of the f board. Too much on the g string side.
 

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