And do you think the electric upright will be obsolete now that you have the acoustic?
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Yes, the accoustic sounds more like an upright bass than the electric. Theres something about that huge hollow body. The NS WAV Electric does emulate an acoustic upright quite well though.
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Havent decided yet. Sara doesn’t want me to sell it because of her artwork on it. Time will tell.
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That is exactly how the pickup on my player sits. I think its normal
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I’ve already posted my Kiesel up above, but this is cool… I just found the post on Kiesel’s FB page where they show it for the first time:
Kiesel Guitars - Posts | Facebook
Interesting, if nothing else.
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Would be great to do a side by side as close tone wise as you can get to see.
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That’s a pricey sticker holder, but I understand.
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Yes it is. She’ll come around eventually.
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That’s right. She’ll buy it from you 
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It’s normal 
Thanks again to @Paul for the photo & knowledge.
And after further review, it is by design… it has something to do with voicing and note articulation
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That is beautiful. Now how is the, dare I say it, Tonewood?
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@eric.kiser You were right
I was hesitant to make that adjustment without loosening the neck screws, for fear of fouling something up. But i had to check what i thought was a stripped truss rod nut after @Paul mentioned that the actual nut may be deeper inside & might not really be stripped, which was also right
Just wanted to say thanks guys!
Turns out the truss rod is working just fine and i didn’t need to loosen or remove anything to make the adjustment.
I was able to bring the string height down from .031 to .015 at the 8th fret (capo’d at the first & fretted at the 16th) with a total of about 1/2 a turn clockwise.
Now off to GC for some strap locks & flat wounds!!
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So, this just in, as of about an hour ago. I’ve had a chance to clean it up, photo it, and play it for a bit.
This is a circa-sometime-after-2009 Kiesel-made Carvin B50. An upgrade to the B5, it has a better neck, better pickups, and a Carvin bridge (as opposed to Hipshot… although interestingly, this one came with Hipshot tuners as opposed to Carvin… go figure). After playing my B5 for a while, I wasn’t real happy with it which is why it’s listed for sale now, but deep down inside I wanted to have a 5-string. When I saw this pop up, I made a bit of a low offer for it - not thinking the seller would take it - but he did. Surprisingly, it plays very different from the B5. I don’t know if it’s the body or neck shape - or a combination of both - along with the new upgraded pickups, but it’s definitely an upgrade to the B5.
It has a (VERY) few super light scratches on it - visible only when the light hits them at a specific angle - but other than that it is in showroom mint condition. It’s absolutely gorgeous.
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Beautiful!!!
Give this stuff a whirl, it’s reco’ed by the Rickenbacker gurus and worked well on mine.
Meguiar’s G17616 SwirlX Swirl Remover - 15.2 oz. Amazon.com
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Glad you got everything sorted. Now less worry, more play 
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Not completely… @Paul …not just yet. I got a little pluckin in today, but not with the Fender.
I did make it out of GC successfully tho, without buying anything more than the strap locks & flat wounds as planned.
I think silently chanting “locks & strings, locks & strings, locks & strings only” in my head on my way there helped.
But for whatever reason the flat 45 G string sits way lower in the nut slot than the round 45 G string did, so much lower that there is no action at the nut.
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You should be able to raise it by adjusting the bridge height. I will tell you I adjusted both my Fenders when I received from Sweetwater (who also was supposed to adjust before they shipped to me), but they didn’t play great till I paid a luthier to do a propper setup. Set me back $125 for both, but well worth it.
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For those interested in doing their own setups there’s lots of information on this forum. It’s not hard to do (I’m pretty stupid and I can do it) and you can put that $125 towards the next Bass.
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Setting action and adjusting the truss rod is pretty easy, but adjusting nut height if necessary, or dressing any frets requires a bit more skill than what I have. Or requires files that I don’t have 
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If you can file your nails, then you have the dexterity and skills to dress fret end. Less than $20 gets you a tool for life.
Nut files are more expensive sure, but if you go very slowly it’s ok.
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