{"id":11978,"date":"2018-01-31T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2018-01-31T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:05:07","slug":"candia-bass-black-mamba-dorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/candia-bass-black-mamba-dorado.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Candia Bass Black Mamba Dorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feature bass this week is from a builder who decided to stop waiting, worked up the courage to build his own bass, and the end result was amazing.<\/p>\n

Builder Rudy Candia writes:<\/p>\n

I have been a woodworker for several years and have dreamt of building bass guitars for a long time but I was too scared to try; like a wee little girl. A few months ago I decided that it was time to stop talking about what I wanted to do and start doing what I had been talking about. This is the very first bass guitar that I have built. <\/p>\n

I call this model the Black Mamba and it has a mohagany body and a wedge top. The back is lacquered but I chose to leave an open pore look so that you can still feel the wood. The wedge top is just oiled, not lacquered because I wanted to cover the wonderful texture of this beautiful wood. <\/p>\n

The neck is a five piece laminate of maple with Purple Heart stringers. This is a fretless bass and the finger board is also wenge with a CA glue coating on it; wenge is just too porous to make a good finger board without the CA coating. The headstock cap is also wedge which, along with the black Bartonlini soap bars<\/a>, and the Black Beauty strings gives the front of the bass a blacked out look. Hence the name Black Mamba. I am also building the same model with black hardware and I call that model the Black Mamba Murder model. <\/p>\n

As I mentioned, this bass has Bartolini single coil pickups and an Aguilar OBP3 preamp<\/a> that I bought from Best Bass Gear. It also has Gotoh tuners<\/a> and some really sick looking gold knobs with abalone inlays. Within three days of completing this bass I showed it to one of my bass player friends and he placed an order for a Black Mamba Murder bass. Funny story, I was showing it to him in his office and one of his co workers was in the room; an older man about 60. When my friend said, “I’ll take it,” the older man said, “I’ll take one too.” I asked if he was serious and he said “yes, I don\u2019t play but I do have some guitars hanging on my walls as decorations and this thing is so pretty I want to hang it on my wall.” Needless to say I left that meeting in a very good mood and am highly encouraged to continue building bass guitars. I hope you like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well done!<\/p>\n

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The feature bass this week is from a builder who decided to stop waiting, worked up the courage to build his own bass, and the end result was amazing. Builder Rudy Candia writes: I have been a woodworker for several years and have dreamt of building bass guitars for a long time but I was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978"}],"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=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}