I purchased this bass mainly to use when composing music, and try out a bit of bass playing next to my usual guitar playing.
The bass has the classic Jazz bass shape.
The body has a glossed natural finish, with a satin neck. The neck is of the slightly thicker variety, as expected with a jazz bass, and even has binding. The finish and plastic have no blemishes, the only blemish on the rest of the guitar is some wood shavings near the truss rod. Unfortunately though, one of the pickup screws was put in pretty crooked. Not a dealbreaker, but a bit annoying. (for those into modding, the room under the scratchplate is only routed for a J-bass pickup)
The action and setup were a lot better than I expected. Of course it needed some tuning, but the truss rod, intonation, and action were near perfect.
The fretwork is pretty good. Checking with a short ruler, the height difference is pretty minimal.
The tuners are of the non-brand variety and look like the cheap pot-metal variety. They hold tune pretty well, but are pretty stiff when turning and often jump and overshoot.
The pickups are the new ones. Replacing the Wilkinson pickups, they now come with Roswell pickups. I couldn't really find much information about them online, but my experience is that they sound okay. A bit thin, but still a lot better than the brandless ones I've heard on other basses.
All in all, the bass is pretty great. Especially if you take in account the cheap price it goes for.
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