[Bass of the Week] Wrong Way Customs Green Monster

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The feature bass this week is a lefty that started out as “beautiful yet a little bit ugly”, and it lights up.

Greg Silva from Wrong Way Customs writes:

This build began with the simple idea to build a green bass. I also had a piece of Birdseye maple that had a LOT of figure in it, but was slightly discolored. It was a beautiful yet a little bit ugly. I thought it would be perfect for the neck and it is why the bass ended up with the moniker “The Green Monster”. As it turns out, the maple had some little internal hairline fractures running through it that did not show themselves until I was carving the back of the neck. So the Monster needed a new neck. I had recently made several fretboards out of wenge and really liked working with it, so I decided to change directions on the Monster and fashion a 5 piece neck of wenge and maple lamination’s and to top it with a wenge fretboard. It was at this point that I decided this bass absolutely needed gold hardware. The body is swamp ash, dyed green and protected by around 12 coats of nitrocellulose lacquer. Pickups are active EMG’s which are switchable between single coil and humbucker. Bridge is a Schaller 3D roller and the tuners are Hipshot ultralights. Other notable features are the Luminlay side dots and knobs. And the Green Monster, like most of the instruments made here at Wrong Way Customs, is left handed.

Well done!

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