{"id":3818,"date":"2013-04-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2017-03-30T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:45:43","slug":"bass-of-the-week-scrap-exotica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-scrap-exotica.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Scrap Exotica"},"content":{"rendered":"

See Nicholas’s business listing here<\/a><\/p>\n

Once again, this bass was sent to our featureme@bestbassgear.com<\/a> inbox with a story and photos, but no title for the bass, so for this one I call it “Scrap Exotica” and you’ll understand why in a moment.<\/p>\n

Nicholas writes:<\/p>\n

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The aim here was to challenge the idea of using rare, endangered and exotic pieces of wood for electric instruments by making an bass out of scrap wood. My motivation was from the disparity between the technological development we had since the 50’s with computers and electronics in general and the almost [nonexistent] development in terms of technology for electric instruments, which still relies on the use of “special” woods and low tech electronic circuits and all the problems we are facing with the deforestation and exploration of endangered species of wood. <\/p>\n

For this bass, the only “proper” part I used was the Brazilian rosewood fretboard, the rest are scraps of many woods collected from wood workshops I worked in Helsinki – Finland. For the electronics, I used a Bartolini 5.4 pre-amp with some old Ibanez humbuckers I had.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This basically goes to prove you can make a bass out of darned near any wood – even scrap wood – if you put your mind to it.<\/p>\n

The look of this bass may not agree with all as it has a sort of “inside of a chocolate bar” look to it, but hey, it totally qualifies as an exotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See Nicholas’s business listing here Once again, this bass was sent to our featureme@bestbassgear.com inbox with a story and photos, but no title for the bass, so for this one I call it “Scrap Exotica” and you’ll understand why in a moment. Nicholas writes: The aim here was to challenge the idea of using rare, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3820,"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\/3818"}],"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=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}