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Aug 19, 2012
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So, its not completely finished yet, but its up and running enough to play! So I'm going to give it a crash course at a 4th of July party tomorrow.

I'll still make sure to have a backup, but I'm just jazzed to finally have this badboy in playing condition!

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Gig report!

Hot as balls, of course, so I wore shorts. Yeah, shoot me.

The bass....it needs a LOT of work. Only made it through the first set with it and had to switch back to the VM Jazz. BIG difference.

Frets still need lots more work, the strings I bought (Power Slinkys) were too much for me. I was hoping the extra tension would be fun and allow me to dig in harder, but it was just...painful. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a weakling.

Action was awful, but I'll blame that on the fretwork not allowing it to get any closer.

The neck got terribly sticky, and made me realize that I LOVE a lacquered neck. So, that'll be happening.

The neck dive really wasn't all that bad. Go figure, the only thing I was worried about and it was the last on my mind after everything else.

The pickup (no-name) is SUPER hot. I needed to keep my volume on my bass down to near nothing to keep it from overdriving/fuzzing out. I'll have to look into that.

All in all, if it were a car, I could say "runs great, just needs a motor" lol

Hope all you other folks had great holiday gigs. Thanks again for the encouragement!
 
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