{"id":11189,"date":"2017-05-10T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11189"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T21:42:51","slug":"bass-of-the-week-alan-gruskoff-custom-fretless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-alan-gruskoff-custom-fretless.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Alan Gruskoff Custom Fretless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The feature bass this week shows how much you can save when you do it yourself!<\/p>\n

Builder Alan Gruskoff<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

I bought an unfinished bass guitar body made of solid mahogany with a spalted & flamed top. After much sanding, I applied two coats of Behlen vinyl sealer for stringed instruments. Next, after some light sanding \/ steel wool, I applied 6 coats of Behlen stringed instrument lacquer, a little steel wool polishing – it’s done.<\/p>\n

The wood is quite spectacular as vinyl sealer really brought out the grains. After lacquer, it’s a very smooth, natural matte finish that feels like the fine wood it is. It’s just what I was hoping for. I am thrilled at being able to do this myself. Local shops wanted $400-500 for what I did on this job for about $50 in supplies.<\/p>\n

I had been playing a 2002 MIM Jazz Bass for a while. I basically replaced the body with this fine woods body, after I did the finishing.  It has an AllParts (Japan) neck with solid ebony fingerboard, Hipshot tuners<\/a> & KickAss bridge<\/a>, Nordstrand pickups<\/a> and Richter<\/a> JB Control Plate. I really like the sound of LaBella<\/a> 750N (Black Nylon) strings. The black on black look is so appropriate for a fretless, to me.<\/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 shows how much you can save when you do it yourself! Builder Alan Gruskoff writes: I bought an unfinished bass guitar body made of solid mahogany with a spalted & flamed top. After much sanding, I applied two coats of Behlen … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[29,59,58,357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189"}],"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=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}