Hi Muxorama, sorry for the late reply, mines the basswood body, had no issues with it apart from disguising some very small wood knots, all in all its turned out well, the bassist in one of my bands tried it out and loved it, he had owned a rick copy in the past but said it was awful to play. I am currently waiting on the neck to settle after adjusting the truss rod, touch of buzz off the strings but i'll adjust the saddles to try to overcome this. I'm still looking for someone to engrave me a truss rod cover with the name on it, pic-up cover i am still in 2 minds over this as the best tone seems to be right over the pic-up i may just look for something to make a surround for the J pic-up incorporating a thumb rest, i do have a monster humbucker i was temped to rout out to fit it but at the moment i am looking for a scrap bass body and neck to do up slap it onto for another project. All in all it sounds really good the neck pic-up is very powerful. It's due for a road test soon as the bassist in my other band wants to try it out on a gig and see if he wants to commission a build.