My bass was built by Keith Roscoe and the team at Roscoe Guitars. I have known Keith around 15 years and own a couple of his basses. I have been bugging him for years to build a J Bass. I am not sure if I wore him down or he realized there were many other bassist asking for an affordable Custom J Bass? My inspiration for this bass was my 74 Fender Jazz Bass which was my first bass I bought used when I was 13.<\/p>\n
A little bit about my Custom Roscoe:<\/p>\n
Serial # 0000C <\/p>\n
Alder Body in Olympic White (upgraded from the standard Poplar)<\/p>\n
Maple Neck Bound with Matching Olympic White Headstock<\/p>\n
Pau Ferro Fingerboard with Pearloid Blocks<\/p>\n
Pickups – Don’t let the Aguilar logo fool you, under the hood is a set of Honey Badger Vintage Split Coil Pickups (I just like the Aguilar covers better)<\/p>\n
Hipshot Classic Bridge<\/a> and Tuners<\/a><\/p>\n Tortoise Shell Pick Guard<\/p>\n Electronics – John East J-Tone<\/a> (I bought this from Best Bass Gear and had it put in place of the passive tone. The J-Tone Controls V-V, B-T Stack, Passive Tone)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well done!<\/p>\n Want YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week? The feature bass this week is from an owner who by his own admission bugged the builder for years until he finally got the J-Bass he wanted (and it’s pretty darned good). Owner Clint Owens writes: My bass was built by Keith Roscoe and the team at Roscoe Guitars. I have known Keith around 15 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[46,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439"}],"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=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0000c.1-1.jpg\")
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