{"id":1126,"date":"2012-05-16T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:56:36","slug":"bass-of-the-week-leonardo-perromojao-mordinis-naga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-leonardo-perromojao-mordinis-naga.html","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Leonardo Perromojao Mordini&#8217;s Naga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s BotW comes from Leonardo Perromojao Mordini of <a href=\"https:\/\/elebasses.com\/\">Ele Basses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A single cut design inspired by the curves in the body of some reptiles. I named it after the Nagas, serpent creates found in Hindu mythology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I has a design that allows real access to all 24 frets. The Hipshot tuning machines, bridges and Bartolini preamp are all from Best Bass Gear. Solid and great sounding stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elebasses.com\/nagaeng.html\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Ele Basses\" src=\"https:\/\/elebasses.com\/img\/Naga\/Naga%2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see some more of Leonardo&#8217;s fantastic luthiery work over at <a href=\"https:\/\/elebasses.com\/\">EleBasses.com<\/a>, where he also gives a great rundown of what goes into each custom build. For the Naga he lists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 strings<\/li>\n<li>Set neck construction<\/li>\n<li>Double action truss rod<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-ultralight-tuners.htm\">Hipshot Ultralite tuners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-triple-lock-down-bass-bridges.htm\">Hipshot Triple Lock-Down single string bridges<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/schaller-strap-locks.htm\">Schaller strap locks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gold hardware\u00b7 Padauk \/ ash \/ padauk body<\/li>\n<li>Bubinga \/ maple \/ bubinga asymmetrical neck<\/li>\n<li>Maple fingerboard<\/li>\n<li>15&#8243; \/ 381 mm fingerboard radius \u00b7 34&#8243; \/ 864 mm scale<\/li>\n<li>9 mm string spacing at nut<\/li>\n<li>17 mm string spacing at bridge<\/li>\n<li>24 stainless steel jumbo frets<\/li>\n<li>Maple knobs and pickup covers<\/li>\n<li>Ele alnico V single coil pickups<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/bartolini-preamps-ntbt.htm\">Bartolini 2 band preamp<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Volume, blend, treble and bass controls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo Perromojao Mordini&#8217;s of Ele Basses brings us Naga, our reptilian inspired curvy Bass of the Week. It features Ultralite tuners and Triple Lock-Down bridges from Hipshot, as well as a 2-band Bartolini preamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"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=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}