I’ve done that before, it’s such a great exercise. This is actually timely, thanks for reminding me about this; I’ll have to bring it to our next retro/onsite!

FWIW, it’s not a bad place, it’s just wasn’t a good place for me.

I’m a creature of habit and I really know the JVM quite well so it’s still a comfort thing for me to be running on that type of environment.

We use it at work as our server side language. It has a lot of the niceties of Scala but there are days I wish I actually had Scala. Java, while my base got-to language, ends up being limited.

It was me

I might end up swapping the electronics as well. We’ll see how well this plays first. Honestly I’ll probably just buy a Fender Vintera II Bass VI if I want a “nicer” one. Who knows though, I might do a really good job with this one 😀

I will also need to do a fret leveling but I’ll save that for last.

The previous owner had also put strings that were WAY too big for the guitar and didn’t bother to fix the nut so it hat caused some cracking. I’ll update this thread with pics of the process of cutting a new nut when the materials come in.

The, typical of Squire, plastic nut was just loose in the slot, free ballin’ it, so to speak. I ordered a bone nut and some files so wish me luck trying to cut one for the first time…

The Indian Laurel needed some love. I used Monty’s tinted wax. I’ll let that sit for a few days while I wait for the shim and a new nut blank to arrive.

Replaced the stock trem with an AVRI one I had laying around. I will need to set it up when I eventually get some strings on it. I seem to have forgotten to take a pic of the new trem on.

The previous owner CRANKED the truss rod… I had to give it some relief.