{"id":5233,"date":"2014-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2017-04-04T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:51:57","slug":"bass-of-the-week-teason-wide-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-teason-wide-5.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Teason Wide 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the business listing for this bass builder here<\/a><\/p>\n

When you go really wide with a neck, sometimes that ends up being really good, and it was for builder Matt Thiessen (teasonbass@gmail.com<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Matt writes,<\/p>\n

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I’ve got an old Warmoth wide-5 P-bass that I restored. I really wanted a J counterpart for it. So, I got busy designing a J-style body that still looked right with a really wide neck. When you start messing with those great Fender curves, you quickly find out that they are really well designed. <\/p>\n

Keeping the flow was a challenge. Then, I got some wood together and hired someone else to make a neck. <\/p>\n

Long story short, the neck was not up to what I had envisioned. So, I decided to learn how to make a neck… <\/p>\n

It’s a Honduran Mahogany body with 5\/8″ figured maple top, finished with a brown burst and nitrocellulose lacquer. <\/p>\n

The neck is quartersawn maple with a Macassar ebony fretboard and figured sycamore lines. It is attached to the body with machine screws and inserts. <\/p>\n

With a 2 1\/8″ nut and 20″ radius it’s pretty wide, and while I don’t have large hands I still find it quite comfortable to play. <\/p>\n

String spacing at the bridge is 20mm. <\/p>\n

Hipshot makes the bridge<\/a> and I ordered a custom set of Nordstrand Big Splits<\/a> through BestBassGear.<\/p>\n

Other than the expense it was painless! As you can see the pickups are dead on with the 20mm string spacing. I’m officially a Nordstrand Pickups fanboy (their 5-string P pickup is in my other wide-5). <\/p>\n

Electronics are wired passive: Vol\/Blend\/Tone. <\/p>\n

Tuners are Hipshot Ultralights<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Strings are TI Jazz Flats. <\/p>\n

The bass came together really well and is a joy to play.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Wide never looked so good – thanks for showing us your bass, Matt. Job well done!<\/p>\n

Want to have your bass featured for Bass of the Week?
Submit yours right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See the business listing for this bass builder here When you go really wide with a neck, sometimes that ends up being really good, and it was for builder Matt Thiessen (teasonbass@gmail.com). Matt writes, I’ve got an old Warmoth wide-5 P-bass that I restored. I really wanted a J counterpart for it. So, I got … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5237,"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\/5233"}],"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=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}