{"id":12602,"date":"2019-01-21T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2019-01-21T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:00:35","slug":"bass-of-the-week-naniamania-051981-4-string-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-naniamania-051981-4-string-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] NaniaMania 051981 4 String Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

The selected bass this week features a unique design with some great history.<\/p>\n

John writes:<\/p>\n

I built this bass with the help of my friend Drew in 1981. At that time there was not a large market of replacement pick ups and parts available to the general public. You would basically buy an instrument off-the-shelf and make the best of it. I wanted to build something different that would take advantage of the emerging parts market that had become available to players.<\/p>\n

My neighbor was a carpenter so I built the body and the electronics cavity cover from a piece of wood from his shop. I don\u2019t recall what kind of wood I used but I do remember there were no knots and the grain was very tight. The neck was from Philip Kubicki. The bridge is one of the first Kahler bass tremolos. The pick ups are an original set of EMG active PJs<\/a>. The tuning keys are from Schaller. It has an original Hipshot DTuner<\/a> and a Fathead attached to the back of the headstock for added sustain.<\/p>\n

It saw a lot of action in its day and unfortunately suffered some damage from a 15 foot fall off of a stage.<\/p>\n

This bass was the prototype for a guitar that Drew built the following year that would eventually become the Guild Bladerunner. The Bladerunner is the guitar that most people recognize from the Aerosmith\/Run DMC \u201cWalk This Way\u201d video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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