{"id":2554,"date":"2012-12-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2012-12-11T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:02:08","slug":"bass-of-the-week-uber-m-aphrodite-fretless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-uber-m-aphrodite-fretless.html","title":{"rendered":"Bass Of The Week: \u00dcber -M Aphrodite Fretless"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s feature bass is a fretless offering with very meticulous attention to detail, the \u00dcber -M Aphrodite.<\/p>\n

A start-to-finish photo album of the build is here<\/a>, but here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: Making an “M” inlay<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: The cavity cover is made to match the back<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: The finished back, sanded to show a more glossy look<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: Aluminum knurled dome knobs used, matching the rest of the hardware<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: The front has a very classical instrument appearance to it<\/p>\n

Remember, you can see the whole photo set here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The story and specs about the \u00dcber -M Aphrodite<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original idea behind the bass started with the wood. The owner of the bass lives originally hails from Cyprus<\/a>, and there he came across a piece of solid Mediterranian olivewood and knew right then and there he wanted to have a bass guitar that featured this wood. He contacted luthier Maurizio Caduto, sent that olivewood to him, Maurizio provided the rest of the materials and the end result is what you see above.<\/p>\n

Other than the olivewood, the bass also features a core of semangkok (similar to a swamp ash characteristic, tone-wise), a back laminate of macassar ebony, a 3-piece neck of wenge\/Asian ebony\/wenge, a fretboard made of ziricote and even the pickup casing is Asian ebony.<\/p>\n

The lone pickup in the body is a Delano bought from us<\/a> (thanks!)<\/p>\n

The electronics are active via a Bartolini on-board preamp bought from us<\/a> (thanks again!) that has volume\/treble\/bass and a push\/pull to switch from active to passive.<\/p>\n

As for the time spent on this build, it took about 8 months. That’s a long time, but the end result was well worth the wait.<\/p>\n

This particular bass is used pretty much everywhere as the owner is a music student residing in the UK. At home, in clubs, in studio, etc. This bass goes everywhere and really gets used, so it’s not just another pretty face.<\/p>\n

The \u00dcber -M Aphrodite is beautiful, functional, is loaded exotic woods and is a job well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s feature bass is a fretless offering with very meticulous attention to detail, the \u00dcber -M Aphrodite. A start-to-finish photo album of the build is here, but here are a few highlights: Above: Making an “M” inlay Above: The cavity cover is made to match the back Above: The finished back, sanded to show … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"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\/2554"}],"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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}