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Last week on Facebook, we informed the audience that we’ve never seen an acrylic-bodied instrument submitted for Bass of the Week, and that if someone submitted one they might be featured.
Matt Brocking delivered with a modified Galveston bass.
Matt writes (this is short, but it gets the point across):
Originally a Galveston body, new neck made by me and Donald Boyd Acrylic. I have always wanted an acrylic bass, so I made my vision. It has an active EMG JX neck pickup with reversed phasing, and an active Chrome MEC bridge pickup, as well as a Kahler tremolo system
Well done!
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Beautiful! I know it must be hard to photograph.
I hope it doesn’t weigh a ton!
Acrylic weight is a myth! This bass weighs only 9 lbs
Looks cool! It probably weighs more than a wood body bass, and is sure to have a slightly different tone/sustain…..love the pickup selector switch and whammy bar! The silver pick-up looks nice too…it would be great if both pickups were silver, and if you could add some LED lighting to illuminate the body…..nice project!
Thanks! It only weighs 9 lbs. And actually it’s 2 different brands of pickups. The neck is an EMG JX Jazz pickup, and the bridge is a MEC pickup. I reversed the phasing on the EMG and they sound incredible together!
Whammy bar!
That is just too cool, that is one wicked looking bass, damn the weight, I love it, how hard would it be to persuade you to create one for somebody else, with perhaps a P/J setup and chrome covers/head stock and a whammyless bridge, maybe even using the neck from a “Fretlight Bass” for the lighting that is already embedded in the neck, with the added sweetness of coil tap/coil split, in phase/out phase switches, sweepable mid and treble/bass expansion onboard?
So this bass weighs 9 pounds. Don’t believe the acrylic is heavy myth! Honestly this is a 3 year project and I don’t have any desire to make another right now, but you never know 🙂
It never hurts to ask, I’d love to have one if ever you do and even better, I’d love to have a matching guitar made too, that would be boss, since I play both, I would have the most unique setup in my state, I’m good doing the electrical stuff, but I suck butt at necks and bodies, so you can’t blame a fella for asking, but thank you so much for the speedy reply, I certainly appreciate it and yeah, yours looks like a labor of love, I feel the same way about my custom electronics’ combo’s..:)
I would definitely buy one of these!
I remember the old Ampeg acrylic basses of the late 60’s / early 70’s man did they weight a ton !!!! I wouldn’t play one then and I seriously doubt these new basses are light weight.so I’d want to pass on this. My ideal bass today is something under 7 lbs., 32 inch scale, Norland P/J pickups with a true Active/Passive system, Schaller roller bridge and tuners and perhaps even fanned frets. If someone can make up something like that I’d be very interested !!! If someone could build something like that at a reasonable price, I and many other bassists would be all over it !!!!
This bass weighs only 9 pounds. Its not heavy at all.
Wow!…, Only nine pounds; both of my Fender basses outweigh that beauty.
I’ve seen other transparent colored guitars and basses, but their owners did not fab them.
Enjoy!