{"id":11626,"date":"2017-09-27T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11626"},"modified":"2017-09-27T10:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:41:32","slug":"zeven-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/zeven-prototype.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the week] Zeven Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feature bass this week is a cool 7-string!<\/p>\n

Owner and builder Billy writes:<\/p>\n

I wanted a seven string fanned fretted bass. This way you can have a whole 5 string and piccolo bass in one. Custom prices were high, so I decided to try to build one. <\/p>\n

I haven’t built an instrument before, but I have done other wood working projects. The neck is a lamination of maple, black walnut, padauk and carbon fibre between each layer of wood. The body halves are wenge, maple and padauk. The fretboard is wenge. <\/p>\n

The pickups are custom Delano<\/a> soapbar, similar to the 8 string production version, but it wasn’t long enough with the fanned fret angle. <\/p>\n

The fanned frets are really the way to go with a large range of strings. The pre-amp is John East<\/a>, bridges are Hipshot<\/a> triple lock down, tuners are Hipshot<\/a> ultra lights. <\/p>\n

When I drew the bass, I drew the tuners backwards, and I left them this way as they fit the headstock better. But, they tune backwards, which I later learned is how the first Fenders worked, so it’s retro. I also had an issue with the bridge height and had to add a bridge lift piece of black walnut. I wanted a bone nut, but couldn’t find one long enough, so I made one out of a soup bone, following some instructions I found on the internet. <\/p>\n

Finish is french polish, which lets the wood ring more. The natural sustain is crazy. One other thing I do to all my instruments is use Neutrik Speakon 4 conductor locking connectors and put the batteries in a box on the floor. She sounds great. Wenge makes it growl. Bit of beast to play, but you can play chords and bass. I am starting to think it’s not really a bass anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well done!<\/p>\n

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The feature bass this week is a cool 7-string! Owner and builder Billy writes: I wanted a seven string fanned fretted bass. This way you can have a whole 5 string and piccolo bass in one. Custom prices were high, so I decided to try to build one. I haven’t built an instrument before, but … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[57,29,351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626"}],"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=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}