{"id":5024,"date":"2013-12-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2017-04-04T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:36:15","slug":"bass-of-the-week-frank-usher-spalted-beech-9912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-frank-usher-spalted-beech-9912.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Frank Usher Spalted Beech 9912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s bass of the week was built for John Mackenzie by builder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/techdirectory\/detail\/frank-usher-2763\">Frank Usher<\/a>, who is located in the Scottish Borders, also lead guitarist for Fish, Marrilion, Border Boogie Band, and many others. <\/p>\n<p>John writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Being a mainly fretless 4 string player (Fender Precision ), I wanted to expand to five strings and have some frets for a change. I chose the woods from Frank&#8217;s stock, but left him total free rein to create the instrument. Spalted Beech body, Maple neck with ebony scarfs and neck joints. Ebony fingerboard, Kent Armstrong soapbar multi-tap pickup. Boron Machine heads.Custom made controls. Another true wonder of this man&#8217;s creations. Passive electronics. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"00106_02_Usher5 Front\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"00106_02_Usher5 Front\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/00106_02_Usher5-Front.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"00106_03_Usher5 Close front\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"00106_03_Usher5 Close front\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/00106_03_Usher5-Close-front.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"00106_04_Usher5 Head\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"00106_04_Usher5 Head\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/00106_04_Usher5-Head.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"00106_01_usher5 body\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"00106_01_usher5 body\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/00106_01_usher5-body.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p>A fine example of how cool spalted can look. Very well done!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want your bass featured for Bass of the Week? Submit your entry now at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Both amateur and pro builds are accepted.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s bass of the week was built for John Mackenzie by builder Frank Usher, who is located in the Scottish Borders, also lead guitarist for Fish, Marrilion, Border Boogie Band, and many others. John writes: Being a mainly fretless 4 string player (Fender Precision ), I wanted to expand to five strings and have &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Frank Usher Spalted Beech 9912\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-frank-usher-spalted-beech-9912.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Frank Usher Spalted Beech 9912\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5026,"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\/5024"}],"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=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}