[Bass of the Week] Upgreader Guitars Tiamat

The feature bass this week is a custom build by Upgreader Guitars.

Owner Dmitry Budko writes:

My name is Dmitry. I play a band called Weesp. We play progressive atmospheric alternative metal with a lot of analog synth and clean vocals. I experiment with low tunings so prefer multiscale basses. For the previous two albums I used 5 strings bass built by Stas Pokotilo. It is tuned (low to high) to G#-C#-G#-C#-F#. Now we are working on the new album and decided to move to standard tuning and go a little bit lower, so I needed a bass which I could tune to low F# (F#-B-E-A-D-G) and it will hold tuning well. I’ve looked over the market to all 6 string fanned fret basses available on the market and could not find any suitable, which had highly stable neck – with double truss rod, graphite reinforcements etc.

This is why I decided to go for a custom. Also I wanted to build two cimilar basses – 6 and 18 string (triple corse), one is green and called Tiamat, other is red and called Marduk.

First of all I wanted to find best wood supplier I can, I’ve speaked to a lot of companies and decided to go with ESPEN. Here are the specs for wood:

NECK:

– 34″-37″ scale

– 20mm string spacing

– neckthrough

– 7 piece (ovangkol-padouk-wenge-ovangkol-wenge-padouk-ovangkol)

– 1st grade Zirikote fretboard

– two custom adjustable truss rods by lmii.com

– three custom graphite neck reinforcements lmii.com

– simtoms bronze frets

– headstock top – poplar burl AAA, headstock back – wenge AAA, lamination between top and back on headstock – Maple veneer

BODY:

– Wenge AA wings

– Poplar Burl AAA Top, 2 pcs.

– Wenge AAA Back, 2pcs

– Lamination between top and back and body – Maple veneer

FURNITURE:

– Gotoh tuners

– ABM single saddle bridge

– Custom Delano SBC 6 HE/S dual coil humbackers

– Delano Sonar 3 MS/E – 3 band onboard electronic with selectable mid frequencies

Well done!

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