{"id":5526,"date":"2014-04-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:53:48","slug":"bass-of-the-week-beardly-customs-reggie-grayson-7-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-beardly-customs-reggie-grayson-7-string.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Beardly Customs Reggie Grayson 7 String"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:6px;background:#ffffc0;border:1px solid #555555\">See the business listing for this bass builder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/techdirectory\/detail\/rick-link-6129\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s BotW is a multi-scale 7-string beast with a nice blend of exotic woods.<\/p>\n<p>Builder Rick Link writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a custom build for Reggie Grayson. The bass is a multi scale\/fanned fret 7 string tuned F#\/B\/E\/A\/D\/G\/C. The scale lengths are 37&#8243;-34&#8243;. The fretboard is cocobolo with a very nice mix of heart and sap woods. 26 EVO gold frets. The body is a laminate of padouk, red oak, wenge, and redwood burl. It has a cats-eye consisting of purpleheart, maple veneer, and wenge. The neck is 7 piece flame maple\/padouk\/purpleheart and is a neck thru the body. The headstock is maple burl veneer, walnut, cherry. The tuners are <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-ultralight-tuners.htm\">Hipshot Ultra Lights<\/a>. The preamp is an 18 volt Audere with a Z mode switch and the pickups are custom wound humbuckers from Instrumental Pickups. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01486_01_10169292_10152360527727491_2104693360_n\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"01486_01_10169292_10152360527727491_2104693360_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/01486_01_10169292_10152360527727491_2104693360_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01486_02_1509861_10152360526987491_411377785_n\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"01486_02_1509861_10152360526987491_411377785_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/01486_02_1509861_10152360526987491_411377785_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01486_03_1975166_10152360527362491_1258111649_n\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"01486_03_1975166_10152360527362491_1258111649_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/01486_03_1975166_10152360527362491_1258111649_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01486_04_1979599_10152360527277491_429089090_n\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"01486_04_1979599_10152360527277491_429089090_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/01486_04_1979599_10152360527277491_429089090_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01486_05_10012624_10152360527427491_115561456_n\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"01486_05_10012624_10152360527427491_115561456_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/01486_05_10012624_10152360527427491_115561456_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>A fine piece of work, Rick! Well done!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Submit your bass for Bass of the Week now<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\">using our easy web form<\/a>, or by emailing the<br \/>story of your build along with at least 3<br \/>high-quality photos to <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:featureme@bestbassgear.com\"><strong>featureme@bestbassgear.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the business listing for this bass builder here This week&#8217;s BotW is a multi-scale 7-string beast with a nice blend of exotic woods. Builder Rick Link writes: This is a custom build for Reggie Grayson. The bass is a multi scale\/fanned fret 7 string tuned F#\/B\/E\/A\/D\/G\/C. The scale lengths are 37&#8243;-34&#8243;. The fretboard is &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Beardly Customs Reggie Grayson 7 String\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-beardly-customs-reggie-grayson-7-string.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Beardly Customs Reggie Grayson 7 String\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5528,"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\/5526"}],"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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}