{"id":12966,"date":"2019-07-13T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2019-07-23T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:14:28","slug":"bass-of-the-week-moonshine-custom-guitars-evh-franken-tribute-p-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-moonshine-custom-guitars-evh-franken-tribute-p-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Moonshine Custom Guitars EVH Franken Tribute P Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week’s bass is a custom build by Rick over at Moonshine Guitars. He submitted this one of kind piece and here is what he had to say about it:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


This was the second bass that I built for this client, the first was a replica of Micheal Anthony’s Jack Daniels bass. It came out so well he asked if I could build a bass replica of Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat guitar.

I have painted a EVH replica before, but this time I spent a lot (too much) of time researching Eddie’s original guitar, in the process I learned a lot of small details about the instrument.

Both the P bass body and neck came from GFS. The body is made of paulownina, a lightweight wood. Since I was installing a tremolo I decided to inlay an insert made of oak to support the studs for the tremolo. I also filled the P pickup route and then did a “rough route to resemble a stratocaster pickup route. It was odd to purposely make things look crude but I got into it after awhile.

I decided to use an imported tremolo that I bought off of eBay, it was cheap but surprisingly well made. 

After that it was all about the paint job; I made it a point to use electrical tape as well as automotive pinstripe tape just like what EVH used on the original. I tried to get as close as possible to replicating the original but I still took a bit of “artistic license” being this is a P bass not a Strat (and who’s going to really know. Lol).

One thing I didn’t want to change was all of the little details that were on the original guitar; this was the fun part, the paint job was only the beginning… There were a ton of details to add, not the least being the 1971 Quarter once used to help the original Floyd Rose tremolo return to the proper location. 

GFS paulownina body and maple\/maple neck, import double J style pickup (The neck pickup and switch in the middle position are dummy) wired straight to volume pot, import bass tremolo (works surprisingly well), tuners and other assorted hardware, custom built 
brass locking nut, eye bolts (screws) for strap buttons and last but not least red and yellow reflectors installed on the rear of the body.

For an “Art Bass” it plays amazingly well. The sound is very aggressive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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So, what do you think of Rick’s build? BTW – If you’re going to comment, whether it be positive or negative, please keep it constructive! We don’t approve of haters. [Comment below]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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This week’s bass is a custom build by Rick over at Moonshine Guitars. He submitted this one of kind piece and here is what he had to say about it: This was the second bass that I built for this client, the first was a replica of Micheal Anthony’s Jack Daniels bass. It came out … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12972,"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\/12966"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12982,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions\/12982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}