{"id":12585,"date":"2019-01-14T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:28:44","slug":"bass-of-the-week-calabrone-custom-fretted-4-string-passive-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-calabrone-custom-fretted-4-string-passive-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Calabrone \/ Custom Fretted 4 string passive bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feature bass this week features a throwback design and some great hardware.<\/p>\n

Builder Geo Kitta writes:<\/p>\n

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The Calabrone (Italian for Wasp) was inspired by the\u00a0the late 60\u2019s\u00a0Coral Wasp short-scale bass. It is a 32\u201d\u00a0scale, 22 fret, set-back headstock neck that is 1-5\/8″ at the nut to a 2-1\/4\u201d\u00a0heel width, with a rotary wheel truss-rod adjuster inset at the heel. The maple\/ebony boarded neck was made to my specs\/design by Luthier Dan Ransom\/SF. Once done I beveled the headstock face similar to a T-bird and inlayed 3 pearl-oid strips. (same material as the pickguard) It has a zero fret with a bone nut which in this application acts as a string guide. The heart-shaped tuners are from an Ibanez Roadstar bass from the 80’s and the E tuner was adapted for a Hipshot Drop-D mechanism. The neck-hugger pu is a Teisco single-coil from the mid-60’s and the bridge bucker is twin lipstick pu’s. Both pu\u2019s are surrounded with custom-cut striped aluminum pickguard material from a 60\u2019s Teisco guitar and the custom 3 piece pickguard (pearl-swirl\/mirror over smoked brown acrylic base) was beveled like the Coral Wasp that inspired this bass. Controls include a 3-way pu switch, NV\/NT\/BV\/BT. I fabricated the aluminum\/wood bridge in the style of a Dano and routed the string-thru to the lower side\/butt of the light basswood body, which is a slim 1-1\/4″ similar to MIJ short-scale basses from the 60’s. It weighs a nice 8lbs\/7oz and is ergonomically scalloped\/contoured for comfort. I did the fine sparkle finish alluding to 60\u2019s Silvertones and Marty Bell\/SoCal did the gloss clearcoat. The neck is hand rubbed satin poly with abalone position dots. It\u00a0has a unique vintage tone (warm and flavorful) and is a fun bass to play.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The feature bass this week features a throwback design and some great hardware. Builder Geo Kitta writes: The Calabrone (Italian for Wasp) was inspired by the\u00a0the late 60\u2019s\u00a0Coral Wasp short-scale bass. It is a 32\u201d\u00a0scale, 22 fret, set-back headstock neck that is 1-5\/8″ at the nut to a 2-1\/4\u201d\u00a0heel width, with a rotary wheel truss-rod … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12586,"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\/12585"}],"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=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12600,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}