{"id":5094,"date":"2014-01-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2014-01-07T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:32:12","slug":"bass-of-the-week-jcr-sc5-fretless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-jcr-sc5-fretless.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] JCR SC5 Fretless"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s BotW was built by JCR Luthier Bass & Guitars<\/a> for Rico P\u00e9rez. <\/p>\n

Rico writes:<\/p>\n

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Hello, I’m Jes\u00fas Rico P\u00e9rez, a bass player of Benalm\u00e1dena, Spain. I have long been observed to JCR Luthier, a great professional and a nice guy, until I decided for him to fabricate the bass I wanted. <\/p>\n

He gave me the freedom to choose all the woods and components. I chose a 5-string fretless bass, neck-through body, 5 pc. laminated hard maple neck, with 2 carbon reinforcement for more stability, 26 fret lines on a thick 8 mm. granadillo fretboard, hard maple wings with chambers, spalted maple top, and strings through body. <\/p>\n

Mounted are a pair of Delano JSBS 5 pickups, with John East, U Retro Deluxe passive\/active preamp, and 5 hipshots X-tender keys in a specially designed headstock. I can say that sounds as good as it looks!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

VIDEO DEMO<\/h3>\n

Always great when we get a video of the instrument being played. And this is a real good one.<\/p>\n