{"id":12810,"date":"2019-04-22T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:45:49","slug":"bass-of-the-week-stewmade-60s-hybrid-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-stewmade-60s-hybrid-gt.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Stewmade 60’s Hybrid GT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week’s selection is a bass creation from David “Stew” Stewart. He built this beauty himself. Here’s the story in his own words:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Much of today\u2019s basses are dark brooding masculine instruments touting dark natural wood finishes or primary colors. I wanted to create a more sporty sexier bass that was still in charge of a powerful low end.

I have always loved American car colors of the 1960\u2019s, especially metallics. The 1963 Corvette had a light blue metallic that was gorgeous and highlighted every sexy curve of that vehicle. Fender\u2019s custom color Ice Blue Metallic is remeniscent of that Chevy color. But that color choice was not enough for me. I up\u2019d the sex appeal by adding gold hardware and pickguard, and roasted flame maple neck with dark chocolate Indian rosewood fingerboard.\u00a0

But don\u2019t be swayed by it\u2019s attractive looks, there\u2019s some serious power underneath that pickguard. There is a calibrated set of Nordstrand NPVJ4-SE pickups<\/a> powered by 18 volts of Aguilar OBP-2 pre-amp<\/a> with an active\/passive switch (in case of an emergency.) To fit the vintage control option, I opted for a stacked dual pickup volume pot and stacked treble\/bass control pot.\u00a0

USA Custom Guitars cut the alder body & neck to specs (.830\u201d C, 21 frets, 6125 frets, 7.25\u201d radius) and I sent out the body to be finished by Pat Wilkins at Wilkins Guitars in Van Nuys, CA. I don\u2019t shoot urethane so I wanted the finish to be more durable than nitro. For the icing on the cake, I ordered a matching custom colored vinyl strap from Couch.\u00a0

Once you start playing this bass, it\u2019s hard to put it down. The tone is so solid and full bodied. There\u2019s barely a need to increase the tone pots from detent.\u00a0 The P\/J pickup configuration allows for a \u201cbest of both worlds\u201d tone flexibility that offers a cool \u201cboth pickups on 10\u201d tone that\u2019s unique in itself. Kind of a blend that\u2019s not quite J bass, not quite P bass. This might be my new favorite pickup configuration.\u00a0

I\u2019m very pleased with this build and I can\u2019t stop playing or looking at it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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