I bought this bass for a specific purpose - as a basically disposable bass that I can leave at a rehearsal space where I am not comfortable leaving one of my nicer guitars. It was shipped completely un-set up. Even the truss rod had no tension whatsoever on it. So you will have to do a full set up right out of the box, or have one done by a tech. It has a bone nut, but the slots were barely cut. So again, you'll have to have a tech file the nut down correctly. The rosewood fretboard had nothing applied to it - it was bone dry. So you'll need to lemon oil that immediately. The strings it ships with are total crap. you'll need to put a decent set on there (can you see the $$$ adding up already?)
The bass itself is incredibly light due to being made of Paulonia (aka empress wood, aka phoenix wood). Mine only weighs 5 lbs, 11 ounces. because of this, there is some noticeable neck dive. I intended to put a higher mass bridge on it, but that's when I found that whoever installed the bridge screws stripped them all - they just turn and turn without ever getting tighter. This didn't cause an immediate problem, because once the screws were out, I discovered the bridge is actually also glued down to the body. So you will be unable to replace or swap out the bridge without prying the old one off and badly damaging the finish, and potentially ruining the bass.
The pickups are ok, nothing wrong with them. The tuners are not great, but they'll do. After the debacle with the bridge, I didn't even want to try removing one to see if it could be replaced. By the way, the fretboard radius is 16" and the scale of the bass is standard 34". The nut width is 1.65".
I would not advise the purchase of this bass. Even at the low price, it's not worth the money, and you'll need to put money and work into it just to get it playable. You'd be much better off spending a little bit more on a Harley Benton or a used Yamaha TRBX174. I have not decided if I am going to keep it or not. I will sleep on it, but might be sending it back.
"You get what you pay for" has never been more true!
Fojill Full Size FBIB-60 Electric Bass Guitar 4 String Right Handed with Gig Bag (Black)
3.5 | 2 ratings
Price: 99.99
Last update: 12-22-2024
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For This Entry Level Bass Guitar,Our Main Concern is Playability And stablity,So We Select The Wood And Parts Carefully.
Even We have Adjusted String Helight To Lower Action,But If you Want More Lower String Height,Please Sanding The Bone Nut,The Bone Nut Bring Better String Vibration,It is Clean And Smooth After Sanding,much better than Plastic Nut on Cheap Guitar.
The Fretboard is Genuine Rosewood,Not Laminated Rosewood Like On Cheap Guitars,The Genuine Rosewood Can Bite the Frets Well,Do Not Change In the Wet or Dry Condition,And Very smooth And Flat After Oil matained.
The Body is Phoenix Wood,Phoenix is Ligher Than Most of Other Wood species,So Better For Beginner,And The Phoenix Also Have Beautiful Wood Grain And Bright Sound.
The Neck is Well Selected Maple,It is Dried Well And very Stable
Bolt On Neck Joint,If You Want to Ajust the String Angle and Action,The Bolt On Neck Joint is Much Easy and Helpful.
Even We have Adjusted String Helight To Lower Action,But If you Want More Lower String Height,Please Sanding The Bone Nut,The Bone Nut Bring Better String Vibration,It is Clean And Smooth After Sanding,much better than Plastic Nut on Cheap Guitar.
The Fretboard is Genuine Rosewood,Not Laminated Rosewood Like On Cheap Guitars,The Genuine Rosewood Can Bite the Frets Well,Do Not Change In the Wet or Dry Condition,And Very smooth And Flat After Oil matained.
The Body is Phoenix Wood,Phoenix is Ligher Than Most of Other Wood species,So Better For Beginner,And The Phoenix Also Have Beautiful Wood Grain And Bright Sound.
The Neck is Well Selected Maple,It is Dried Well And very Stable
Bolt On Neck Joint,If You Want to Ajust the String Angle and Action,The Bolt On Neck Joint is Much Easy and Helpful.
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