So during the pandemic I started buying bass guitars. I've had a nice Fender
Precision over the years so I found a Fender Dimension bass that was sitting
in a small store in Canada unsold. Fender had discontinued these like 5 years
ago which was unfortunate because they are active, have a massive pickup like
a Music Man Stingray and a Jazz bass neck. This one is a natural finish with
a maple neck so, it's a keeper. The fret ends were sharp because it had been
sitting in a dry environment and the wood tends to shrink. So then I learned
the fine art of gently filing the ends an polishing frets. I did buy another
odd bass which was a Jazz Bass configuration by Cort (probably Korean or
Indonesian). It too is active. All natural wood swamp ash body with a
Canadian rock maple neck, maple fingerboard, high mass Omega bridge and
Hipshot light tuners. How can they do this for under $600.00? There is a
clear plexiglass pickguard to show off the wood. It too has "fret sprouts"
due to dry environment. Now I am building a kit from The Fretwire, which is a
P-Bass kit but with a short scale neck. Somewhat of an oddity since Fender
never really made a short scale P-Bass. Short scale basses are making a
comeback because there is a neat midrange sort of tone they get. Think Jack
Bruce in Cream or Tina Weymouth in Talking Heads. They are not supposed to be
"kids" guitars, there is a specific purpose in mind for the scale length. In
any event, I have the bug to build a guitar from scratch but have to get more
of a shop together. Oh well, too many guitars... too little time.

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