{"id":10812,"date":"2017-03-22T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2017-03-22T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:27:00","slug":"bass-of-the-week-puskaric-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-puskaric-turtle.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Puskaric Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This bass is one groovy turtle.<\/p>\n

(Yes, there is a video below where you can hear this bass.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Bulder Stasa Puskaric writes:<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1998 I saw my friend’s Warwick bass and I got the drive to build one by myself. At that time I was reading a lot about Stradivari family, Leonardo daVinci and woodworking techniques used till 16th Century. I bought the wood in Vienna in the store with wood for musical instruments dried more than 9 years in the air. I picked the wood as Stradivari would for his violins. Based on how it sounds. I decided to work with the combination of curly maple, bubinga and olive woods. I used old forgotten techniques of gluing wood (using a home built press), and freehand techniques to shape the guitar. No machines used. Also no synthetic compounds were used (as lacquers, varnish). I ended up building two guitars, the Turtle and the Pecten jacobeus. The Turtle has piezo pickups in the bridge plus EMG soap bar humbucker pickup<\/a> with a custom built active electronic system. It has only two knobs, volume and push – pull mid range booster. The frets are inlay-ed with mother of pearl hand made turtles in various sizes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well done!<\/p>\n

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VIDEO DEMO<\/h3>\n