{"id":10075,"date":"2016-11-09T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10075"},"modified":"2017-05-12T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:08:44","slug":"bass-of-the-week-christopher-vm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-christopher-vm-2.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Christopher VM-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the business listing for this bass builder here<\/a><\/p>\n

The feature bass this week is a hollow body with beveled top (cool!)<\/p>\n

Builder David Smith from Christopher Bass Guitar<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

I’ve been a bass player for 35 years and full time luthier for about 18 years.\u00a0 For the first ten years the main part of my business was building f-5 mandolins.\u00a0 On the side, I logged red spruce trees in Maine, cut and sold the tonewood, manufactured CNC top and back plates for various archtop instruments and sold them to other luthiers.\u00a0 Over the course of time, selling CNC plates became the majority of my work, and building instruments took a back seat.\u00a0 Early last year I decided it was time to build the electric bass I had always wanted to build, but never had time to get to.\u00a0 Building that bass reignited my passion for building instruments and along with building a couple acoustic basses I refined the design of the first electric bass and this is the result.<\/p>\n

It’s a bevel-top hollow body electric bass.\u00a0 The top and back are curly soft maple, and the “core” is cherry.\u00a0 Neck is lightly curled rock maple with an ebony fingerboard that has a compound radius, and large size acoustic guitar frets.\u00a0 Inlay and truss rod cover are mother of pearl.\u00a0 The pickups are Bartolini quad coil humbuckers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This bass is passive with volume, blend and push pull tone\/coil switching knobs.\u00a0 Right now the tone\/coil switching knob lets me choose both pickups in humbucker mode, or the two outside coils in single coil mode.\u00a0 I plan on adding a 3 way switch so I can choose outside coils, inside coils or humbucking.\u00a0 Running this bass passive allowed me to load all the electronics through the pickup routs into the fully enclosed\/shielded control cavity, so no control cover on the back.<\/p>\n

Since this bass was completed I have six more in progress with several small refinements to the design.\u00a0 Several of them will have active electronics and several will be passive.\u00a0 Once they are finished I will start on an acoustic\/electric hybrid with either an arched or bevel top.\u00a0 The top will be truly “acoustic” and free to vibrate, but it will also have an electric pickup to blend with a piezo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well done!<\/p>\n

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See the business listing for this bass builder here The feature bass this week is a hollow body with beveled top (cool!) Builder David Smith from Christopher Bass Guitar writes: I’ve been a bass player for 35 years and full time luthier for about 18 years.\u00a0 For the first ten years the main part of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}