When people hear the word “template,” the idea comes to mind that a template is fabricated so it can be used more than once. In the guitar building world, it is actually normal to fabricate one-use templates. Unless the same guitar is crafted over and over again, a seasoned builder over time can easily fill … Read more
As many of you out there have seen, there have been some site changes going on with Best Bass Gear, and this includes the forms for Bass of the Week and the Business Tech Directory. Both of these features now have new forms that are much easier to use. Bass of the Week Entry Form … Read more
The feature bass for this week is a nice single cutaway shape with a very nice NOS 26-year-old gold-tone humbucker. The owner of the is Leonardo Deus, and the builder was Sanzio Brandão of Kian Guitars in Belo Horizonte Brazil. Leonardo writes: This bass has a neck-thru construction the body and neck are Brazilian mahogany … Read more
An email from a customer arrived recently expressing gratitude that we were able to help out with a bass upgrade. It is not uncommon that we receive emails like this, but what made this one particularly special is how the upgrade happened. (The author wished to keep the names anonymous. Names have been changed.) Pink … Read more
Said up front: The first 2 minutes of this will be ridiculously easy (read: boring.) It’s after the first 2 minutes where the groove kicks in on the bass. The Who did have a few songs where you know what it is the moment you hear it, but the name of the song is difficult … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here The feature bass for this week comes from Switzerland! Builder David Emm writes: As a drummer/guitarist I have always wanted to play the bass as well but up until now, I’ve never had one. I’ve played on many friends basses but without owning one. It’s hard … Read more
A nice follow-up from Slapping a bass in the jungle, kid’s TV show style, National Geographic very recently released How Bass Guitars Are Made from their MAKING STUFF video series. Yes, this video is for kids, but it’s very cool that National Geographic did this. It’s also very cool how they presented the information in … Read more
For those of you out there who don’t think that a light 30-90 set of bass strings would work for slap, the video below proves otherwise! But hang on, the video gets better than just demonstrating lighter strings. The video presenter even went so far as to demonstrate old strings first, then a new set … Read more
The feature fretless bass for this week was just something built to “fill in the time,” according to the builder. Builder Pete Ryan writes: I am a contract worker. My latest contract was unexpectedly terminated in October, so to fill in the time while looking for my next contract I decided to build this beauty … Read more
For those of you out there who ever thought there should be more bass guitar in children’s television programming, well, it actually happened. There is a BBC television program called ZingZillas on the “CBeebies” channel. And very recently, there was a show clip released on YouTube showing an entire segment dedicated to the bass guitar. … Read more
