{"id":12220,"date":"2018-04-25T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12220"},"modified":"2018-04-25T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:08:37","slug":"scott-sampson-big-sammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/scott-sampson-big-sammy.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Scott Sampson Big Sammy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feature bass this week was the builder’s first attempt at fretting a neck, which ended up being successful along with the rest of the instrument.<\/p>\n

Builder Scott Sampson writes:<\/p>\n

This bass was started as a project by an unknown person to me. It came to me with nothing done except the fret slots were cut. This was my first attempt at fretting a guitar, and all but one went in properly! I chose Grover Titan Bass Guitar Tuner Chrome GV-145c tuners. The fretboard is flat… no crown, which is remarkably comfortable to play, and provides a very even response across the strings at the pickup. I chose a Kent Armstrong MM4 HBMN1 MusicMan StingRay 4 string bass pickup due to the compact nature of the pickup, and the great variety of wiring possibilities. This pickup is awesome… huge sound. It’s wired through an on-on-on DPDT switch, to a Babicz FCH-4 bridge<\/a>. This is my second Babicz bridge… I really love the adjustability and sound from these bridges. I finished the body with 5 coats of wipe-on Poly, knocking it down with 0000 steel wool between coats. I didn’t want a glossy finish, as I find the reflection of light takes away from the nice woods. The one noticeable adaptation I made was no pots. No Volume\/No tone. This is my reasoning: I only play with my volume full on, and turn it full off between sets. I adjust all my volume through my pedals or the amp. So why bother with a volume Pot? Just put a kill switch in line to turn the guitar on or off. I always play through a SansAmp bass pedal<\/a>, and all of my volume and tone is shaped through the pedal, so a tone pot is redundant. When I routed out the control cavity I left room for pots if I discover later down the road that I need ’em… but so far, it’s magnificent as is!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The feature bass this week was the builder’s first attempt at fretting a neck, which ended up being successful along with the rest of the instrument. Builder Scott Sampson writes: This bass was started as a project by an unknown person to me. It came to me with nothing done except the fret slots were … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12221,"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\/12220"}],"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=12220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12220\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}