I have had the bass three weeks now and it has taken time for the neck to adjust to being back home in California. The fingerboard expanded pretty quickly over the first five days and the fret edges were fine again so when I took it up to Alembic the only thing they had to do was put the trimpot in for the LEDs. The parts were plug and play, I was out of the shop in less than five minutes. The neck has taken longer to settle in, had to keep loosening the truss rods. It seems stable enough now that I was able to set the intonation today. So... no it hasn't been out for a gig yet and I am certainly looking forward to hearing it in the context of a band. My new Barefaced cabinets are light enough that I can finally move my rig, or at least part of it, up into the house and the bass is sounding great. Really huge, solid, warm lows and a nice punch with glassy highs. Each of the notes has a definition that I believe reflects having the ebony laminate.
