Here's what I wrote up about it so far:
BASTIN GUITAR BG02H15 LANDED. Packed immaculately. Arrived in 2 days with full tracking. So many small details that one normally would oversee are fully realized on this neck. As much a piece of art as it is a machine and a tool for creation.
Pre-operation. Body: Ash Jazzmaster, weighs a shit-ton. Probably in the 7-8 pound range. Loaded with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders because I'm not used to pickups that aren't loud as shit anymore. 3 way pickup selector, series/parallel switch, and master phase wiring. 500k volume and tone. Mastery thimbles. (Currently) a Fender Mustang Bridge, Fender Vibrato. Mastery Bridge and Vibrato incoming to finish this guitar off.
On Point. I seriously love Sperzel tuners. I had an Obstructures guitar moons ago that used them and missed them ever since. The construction of this is again just ridiculous.
Profile of the neck for those curious. I will take another shot compared to my EGC necks that have the thicker Dennison profile. This Bastin neck reminds me of the 'Standard Thin' Neck profile from Warmoth. Not quite a shredder, and not quite a medium. For being thinner than my EGC's I actually really, really enjoy the profie. It's fast. I haven't done a full setup yet and already it's just lighting quick with the action and play up and down the neck.
The neck installed in 10 minutes. That 10 minutes was 5 minutes of admiration before install, 5 minutes of labor. I didn't end up needing to widen/drill the neck holes out on the Jazzmaser body, the provided screws slid right in to the neck holes. For now, until the Mastery stuff arrives, I recycled the set of strings that I had on the guitar before I put the neck on. I only needed to replace the D string since the original was too short. I'm really blown away, seriously. I don't have many words right now other than I have barely even set this up and it's playing immaculately.
