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It's nice.
Bridge ashtray doesn't fit over the Kickass.
I was only going to have it on for pictures and stow it away so it's whatever. Would have looked super cool in pictures, though.edit: Build wise, the biggest takeaway from it is how badly I wish I had done the front + rear route on my PJ. No trying to tetris and squish everything in under the control cover. I also had tons of room to go nuts on shielding, and initially thought I had a cold solder joint or otherwise goofed something up because when I plugged it in and turned it up it was *100% silent.* Nice!
It's such a different vibe than my other basses! The nickel strings, alnico III pickups and 60's bridge pickup position give it a completely different voice. It's really fun for slap stuff.
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Very nice. I ALWAYS have rear route done, including double battery box, even for passive. A, it deletes the need for a pickguard, and B, it takes extra wood off, reducing weight.
I love the smooth backside, but I appreciate the weight reduction. We're old school, and do 4 one hour sets plus encores when we gig. At 68, soon to be 69, it really helps, especially since we do a 3 1/2 hour straight practice once a week beginning April.
I believe it, I utilized the option to have Warmoth hand-pick me a light body from their stock, so I'm not downplaying the benefits of weight-reduction. But for me personally using light(ish) wood is where I draw the line.
I wanted to use a "traditional" Jazz pickguard and control plate on this guy, so I needed the front rout, but I knew for sure the Nordstrand preamp + pots would be a tight squeeze. Doing the rear rout too and having that big cavity accessible from both sides made it the easiest bass to put together I've ever done.
(It still looks like a rat's nest on the inside but, hey, what are you going to do?)
I should clarify. I like the rear route for the front-side aesthetic. It has the added benefit of reducing weight.
I never would have thought of adding the double battery box as a weight-saving measure.
Here I'm playing MacArthur Park on my Warmoth black limba body/wenge neck PJ.
As a double bass player I've never played an electric bass bass with a plectrum but you did it excelellently, sir!
Man, it's been so long since I've played with a pick, I've forgotten how.
(It's not like I ever really knew how to begin with, though, to be honest. I had a problem either dropping picks or keeping them oriented properly in my fingers -- they always seemed to rotate a little bit so the pointy part wasn't the part that was contacting the stings. If someone had made a seven-pointed pick, I would have tried it, and possibly I'd still be playing with one.)
(It's not like I ever really knew how to begin with, though, to be honest. I had a problem either dropping picks or keeping them oriented properly in my fingers -- they always seemed to rotate a little bit so the pointy part wasn't the part that was contacting the stings. If someone had made a seven-pointed pick, I would have tried it, and possibly I'd still be playing with one.)
My build got sidelined indefinitely, but it also gave me a chance to re-evaluate what I want in “perhaps the last bass I will ever buy”.
It started as a straight up passive Jazz V with bound/blocked neck, rosewood FB, natural
ash body.
That morphed into a tobacco-burst body and single MM sweet-spot pickup.
I have recently realized that I no longer crave the MM sound, and one of my Franken-Squier’s with dual MM pickups gets me close enough for my satisfaction.
So now, I’m thinking passive Jazz once again, but with Aguilar DCB Jazz pickups (too bad there is only one sound sample available at this time, but I like what I hear this far), or Duncan NYC pickups (EMG 35 shape).
I would use the Jazz body shape since I have an Obsidian control board for Jazz that I bought 2 years ago.
With the NYC’s I would do a rear route and use 4 ON-ON toggle switches for Series/Parallel/Neck Coil/Bridge Coil - 2 switches per pickup, each pickup switched independently.
I would also forego the neck binding & blocks, and just go with a roasted flame maple neck with cream dots - elegant and classy. 6150 frets.
Something like this:
But...
Now that I just found out I have to get the condenser replaced in my Jeep, it’s getting pushed back even further than indefinitely...
It started as a straight up passive Jazz V with bound/blocked neck, rosewood FB, natural
ash body.
That morphed into a tobacco-burst body and single MM sweet-spot pickup.
I have recently realized that I no longer crave the MM sound, and one of my Franken-Squier’s with dual MM pickups gets me close enough for my satisfaction.
So now, I’m thinking passive Jazz once again, but with Aguilar DCB Jazz pickups (too bad there is only one sound sample available at this time, but I like what I hear this far), or Duncan NYC pickups (EMG 35 shape).
I would use the Jazz body shape since I have an Obsidian control board for Jazz that I bought 2 years ago.
With the NYC’s I would do a rear route and use 4 ON-ON toggle switches for Series/Parallel/Neck Coil/Bridge Coil - 2 switches per pickup, each pickup switched independently.
I would also forego the neck binding & blocks, and just go with a roasted flame maple neck with cream dots - elegant and classy. 6150 frets.
Something like this:
But...
Now that I just found out I have to get the condenser replaced in my Jeep, it’s getting pushed back even further than indefinitely...
Thanks! How about playing double bass with a pick?
At least a bass doesn’t have a sound hole for you to drop the pick into.
Some picks have a rough, textured surface that helps in gripping them.
Hello my Warmoth brothers and sisters!! How is everyone?? For funzies, when did you buy your first Warmoth? What was it? Still got it?
I will start.... I bought a 1 piece Black Korina archtop Dinky P in 1999. It has a oil finish that has never been touched up since I did it in 1999. I have a Modulus Genesis 4 neck attached to it. Can't find a pic at the moment. Still have that beast. Don't play it much any longer, but I did have it out for a gig over this past summer. You can find a pic as post #1 on this thread
I will start.... I bought a 1 piece Black Korina archtop Dinky P in 1999. It has a oil finish that has never been touched up since I did it in 1999. I have a Modulus Genesis 4 neck attached to it. Can't find a pic at the moment. Still have that beast. Don't play it much any longer, but I did have it out for a gig over this past summer. You can find a pic as post #1 on this thread
My first Warmoth bass is the one in my avatar. It has been my main player for about six or seven years.
Alder body
Bubinga neck
Wenge fretboard
3x Fender Super 55 pickups
Turnstyle Switch (allows for full manual control of pickups in one channel + five voice presets)
Assembled, set up, and PLEK'd by Mike Lull
My first actual Warmoth purchase was a 6-string guitar in the 80's. It got stolen.
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Oh, I tried them. I tried rough textured picks, rubberized picks, felt picks, picks with holes in them...
Funny, I've never had a problem dropping or losing my fingers. The occasional blister seems to be about the worst of my problems.
Just a side note on Warmoth. The body on this page for the G5. That is the one I have. They are still using that same picture since the G5 prototype came out and I bought it in 2004.
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