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| Materials: |
Birdseye Maple/Purpleheart top. Spruce back. Possible Wenge and Maple core |
| Fingerboard: |
TBA - but it will be beautiful!! |
| Pickups: |
Watson humbuckers |
| Electronics: |
Active/Passive - using Audere 4-band |
| Hardware: |
New hardware options! |
| Finish: |
Satin |
This is a special order bass for one of our East Coast customers.
Primarily a tapping style instrument this instrument will be designed for a comfortable playing fit, and we are looking for a more full-bodied and mellow tone that that usually associated with tapping-style instruments.
Most of the specifications still have to be established. We'll have more updates very soon. What we DO know is that the bass will be headless and will feature fanned frets!
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We also plan to use Wenge in this bass - it will help produce the tone we are looking for.
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(2/27/10) Part of this revolutionary instrument will be constructed of Wenge. This is a well-recognized wood that produces excellent bass-tone. Furthermore, this piece of wenge we recently found has a much tighter and straighter grain structure than is typical for this wood. It has great potential for a neck wood and I am looking forward to incorporating this material into the neck/core of this bass. Our focus is definitely on the tone!!! |
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The top of this bass will have a large section of bookmatched Birdseye Maple.
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(2/11/10) We went wood-shopping yesterday and were able to find this very nice plank of birdseye maple. This caught our eye because the grain and birds-eye figure is quite a bit larger than you usually find in this type of wood. It should make a spectacular top for this upcoming instrument. Our customer has a custom design for thetop of the instrument so we need to get hold of some more wood in the near future to make this happen |
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