It has been 321 days since we got our Ibanez MiKro and although Amazon already offers free shipping to the Philippines nowadays, the Jackson Concert Bass Minion JS1X is still currently unavailable with them until now.
And it is still not being sold by the official Jackson Guitar distributor here in the Philippines, JB Music and Sports, Inc.
However, as we were searching for guitars on the net, we didn’t really expect to be able to find one “rare” 28.6 inches scale length Jackson Concert Bass Minion JS1X up for sale just located but two hours travel distance from where we were at.
So, we made correspondence and informed our seller Mr. Chille Ellaca that we were interested in it. The day came that we contacted and informed him that we were finally buying it, but we got no response from him. So, after almost two days that passed, of waiting, we just informed him that we will just pass up this good one, and decided to purchase a different one-our second pick.
And just a day before we already made arrangements with a different seller to purchase a different bass. He contacted us, so we just had to cancel our second choice and settled for the Minion bass.
This Jackson Concert Minion JS1X Bass guitar is not yet sold here in the Philippines, so we just had to take this wonderful opportunity.
Primaries and a Secondary
Already have our basses in Primary colors and now, with this recent neon green Secondary color acquisition, guess, that only leaves us an orange and a purple to complete the Secondaries.
Setting up
We started by adjusting the bass’ neck relief-truss rod tweaked, then all the bridge saddles height lowered to the lowest level. Strings tuned, then intonated-bridge saddles moved and adjusted. Checked the neck again then adjusted and turned the truss rod again.
Tuned again, checked the neck again, adjusted the truss rod again, tuned again then checked the neck again – neck was okay already. We then checked for any fret buzz/string rattles and we adjusted the string action, as the saddles were at the lowest level, we raised them bit by bit.
We tuned again, checked for fret buzz/rattles again, then adjusted the bridge saddles for the intonation again. Everything was good, so we then adjusted the pickup heights, and finally we were done.
We then measured the string action, the string height, that is, the distance from the bottom of the strings to the top of the fret crown, the middle part of the 12th fret by using a ruler…
And we came up with 1.7 mm for all strings, and not a fret buzz for all the strings now throughout the entire fret board! Super low action!
This Minion bass was a bit tricky to setup but we finally got it.
This bass is so very, very hard to come by here today, we’ve been meaning to get this for eons so, we just want to thank Mr. Ellaca, an OFW for selling this one to us. Guess, we were just lucky to finally get this!
REFERENCES
Jackson JS1X Concert Minion Bass images courtesy of Amazon(dot)com and Jackson Official Distributor list from Jacksonguitars(dot)com
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