{"id":11519,"date":"2017-08-23T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T15:27:59","slug":"dave-caissie-1708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/dave-caissie-1708.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the week] Dave Caissie 1708"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The feature bass this week proves you can make something great even if your wood is sourced from a national home improvement chain store.<\/p>\n<p>Builder Dave Caissie writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been playing 4-string bass (fretted, fretless, upright) for 30+ years and finally got around to getting a 5-string. By getting, I mean scrounging my workshop and Home Depot for the wood and making something I couldn&#8217;t afford otherwise. Also, I am a dyed-in-the-wool yankee cheapskate!<\/p>\n<p>That said, I did put some coin into this build. I wanted a good slap sound but with flexibility for jazz, motown, classic rock or whatever else I was playing that gig. I have grown to love the classic Fender Jazz bass asthetics, but needed my own spin in the vein of Sadowsky (without Sadowsky $$$).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the result, after a long summer in the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Body: mahogany (chambered) with a flamed maple top (from Home Depot, believe it or not!). Rear cover has neo magnets so no ugly screws and it&#8217;s more convenient, to boot. Hipshot bridge. The charcoal burst front and cherry red back make it look like two different instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Neck: Laminated flamed maple with walnut, maple, and purpleheart accents. Ebony fretboard with simple white side marker dots for inlays. 24 frets because I use all of them. Hipshot lightweight tuners.<\/p>\n<p>Electronics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/bartolini-pickups-2.htm\">Bartolini<\/a> 57J1 Deep Tone split coil set. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/aguilar-preamp.htm\">Aguilar<\/a> OBP-3 preamp. Controls are set up as follows&#8230;stacked Volume\/Tone (passive), Pup Blend, stacked Bass\/Treble (active), Mid pushpull 400Hz\/800Hz (active), Active\/Passive switch.<\/p>\n<p>Sound: Holy moley!! Even before I plugged it in the acoustic sound was impressive. The volume and tone across all the strings is very even and the slap sound I was going for is there in spades.<\/p>\n<p>As I was nearing the end of the build I am real happy I found bestbassgear for the pickups, preamp, knobs, tuners, strings and do-dads. You guys are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>And building or modding your own instrument is sooooo rewarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0234.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0233.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0230.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0228.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0224.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0210.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0138.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want <i>YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/><a style=\"text-decoration:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week-entry-form\">Submit yours now using our easy web form<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feature bass this week proves you can make something great even if your wood is sourced from a national home improvement chain store. Builder Dave Caissie writes: I&#8217;ve been playing 4-string bass (fretted, fretless, upright) for 30+ years and finally got around to getting a 5-string. By getting, I mean scrounging my workshop and &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the week] Dave Caissie 1708\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/dave-caissie-1708.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the week] Dave Caissie 1708\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[46,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519"}],"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=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}