Started Justin’s last week. 4x20 minutes into it now and this is still true for me 
But there is progress and I feel those callouses building up. I’ve got the impression that guitar needs more perseverance at the beginning than bass guitar, not talking about progressing beyond beginner level though.
What is interesting with Justin’s course is the practice method. I really should get my mess together and set up a practice for bass as well 
, but more than 20 minutes a day though 
Yeah his Chord Perfect and Fast Changes exercises are great
I’ve been doing Justin Guitar also, just a bit harder to get motivated on the 6 string tho
It’s true. More strings and shorter frets 
And more pain 
Much more pain. But it gets better fast.
Isn’t it though? It’s made me forget about rugs.
You could always get that view printed on a rug…
That is a brilliant idea 
There are days I have a hard time focusing on work type things
It’s nice being back in Strat scale. It’s crazy it makes a difference, but it does. It’s easier for me anyway.
Day 2 did the first module in Justin’s. My fingers really hurt, and I really needed to change how I held my thumb so my sausage finger hit 1 string. But made it through
SOON
Once the replacement pickguard gets here, that’s going in the neck position. The bridge pickup is fine, no need to mess with it - it’s great actually, they did a good job on it. but the neck is a little dark and muffled for my tastes. Here’s the current pups in all four positions (bridge/both parallel/neck/both series):
A P90 should make that neck (and the “both” positions) sound much more rich and clear.
It was surprisingly hard to track down a nice 3-ply 8-hole tele pickguard cut for a P90. Zillions of humbucker cuts out there but P90 cuts were really rare. No idea why.
Massively overboard upgrade for my 11 year old. Squier mini strat with new CTS pots, GFS mini humbuckers and a Duncan Lil ‘59 in the middle. Was three single coils and dime pots originally . Gold tuners are off a Lee Malia signature Epiphone Explorer. Strap locks. Used it to teach my 14 year old a few things and learn a lot about wiring myself. What I learned will Definitely help with the Ugly Stick bass project. Still have a phase issue to sort in one of the positions. Elsewise close to
Finished.
Me too, I much prefer the Fender scale length (25.5").
At the time when I changed the neck pickup on my yellow Tele, I had to route the stock pickguard to fit the P90. This is a terrible job … very grunge at least. Also I was not able to find a white cover for the P90 so I cut one in a plastic sheet. And also the body was not routed for more than a Fender single coil, so I had to route it. I could fix all that now to make it all clean, but nothing is clean on this guitar, so I will keep it as is forever.
I highly doubt it’s a Lil’59 ! the Lil’59 doesn’t have blade magnets. Otherwise I like what you did of this Squier
Yeah, the choices I could find were black and cream. Ended up going with black to match the P-bass.
The pickguard - out of hundreds of Tele pickguards, I could only find three P-90 cuts, two on Eyguitar and one from some rando on AliExpress. I went with Eyguitar. We’ll see if it is even close. No idea why so rare.
Yeah pretty sure that’s a Hot Rails or similar
Still plugging away. I practiced 2-2.5 hours yesterday. Totally suck at chords. My sausage fingers don’t like to stay in their own lane, they like to crowd adjacent strings. Doing better with scales. Getting used to strings so close together. It’s a journey. Have 4 or 5 of the E Pentatonic scales down. I think the next is A pentatonic. I do not yet find Justin engaging.
Check out Steve Stine. He is kinda like Josh. Engaging and talks about guitar concepts in a way that is easily understood.
He’s great. Sean Daniel is too, as is Andy (from AndyGuitar).
But Justin’s site is always going to be the best single resource you’ll come back to.
from this forum. And my last big ticket for some time