{"id":5584,"date":"2014-04-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2014-04-22T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T21:12:03","slug":"bass-of-the-week-modified-ibanez-destroyer-dtb100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-modified-ibanez-destroyer-dtb100.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Modified Ibanez Destroyer DTB100"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since starting Bass of the Week, we have our first Ibanez Destroyer, sent by owner Hugh, and modified by Dave Crowder.<\/p>\n

Hugh writes:<\/p>\n

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Diablo the Destroyer! Here’s a bass that will always stand out in the crowd! <\/p>\n

This bass started as an Ibanez DTB100 Destroyer limited run based the 80’s Model:<\/p>\n

\"140422165438\"<\/p>\n

Ibanez only made 120 of them. It has a mahogany body, a maple neck with a rosewood fret board and jumbo frets. <\/p>\n

Originally the bass came with just a basic single P pickup (cream colored of course!) and gold hardware from the big hair band days. Very retro, a classic to be sure but, meh, just not my style! <\/p>\n

First, I did some light modding myself and I bought most of the parts from Best Bass Gear! \ud83d\ude42 Black Gotoh tuners<\/a> and a Hipshot<\/a> replaced the original gold tuners and I slapped on some Schaller Strap Locks<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I also changed out the gold Ibanez bridge for a black Ibanez counter part. <\/p>\n

I swapped out the P pickup for an EMG PAX P pickup<\/a> and shortly after that, replaced the tone knob for an EMG EXB Control. <\/p>\n

While closer to my liking, I still wasn’t totally happy with how the bass sounded having long since been spoiled to 3 band EQs on my other basses. But I had taken the work as far as I could. It was time for a professional. <\/p>\n

Enter Mr. Dave Crowder of Crowder Guitar Works in Memphis, TN. <\/p>\n

To get the bass to were is is now took a lot of routing work on his part. The added Kahler 2400 Tremolo and EMG JAX pickup<\/a> needed routing of course but also he had to route out a larger control cavity to make room for the EMG BQC 3-band System plus moving the input jack to the tail. <\/p>\n

To prevent marring that awesome candy apple red paint, he did all the work by hand with a Dremel Tool! He also installed a custom fitted graphite nut. The tremolo stays in tune well even with “crazy” use. <\/p>\n

With a bass like this, any old neck plate simple would not do so I came up with my own graphic design and had it lazer etched. <\/p>\n

Then once I got the bass back home I did a little more of my own modding, I added the extra long whammy bar that Kahler now sells and for the icing on the cake, I put 3M Carbon Fiber vinyl on the headstock and added a chrome Ibanez logo on top of the carbon fiber. I also added the carbon fiber look to the control cavity cover, too. <\/p>\n

And in case your wondering about the Kahler and the Hipshot, I’ve got the Kahler locked from going up so the Hipshot works without causing tuning issues. I can still use the Whammy in dropped D too, no problem! <\/p>\n

It is strung with Roto Sound 66 Swing Bass strings. The EMG Pickups have Alnico Magnets and the 3 band EQ has sweepable mids so yeah, tone for days and days!!! I couldn’t be any happier with the bass now. It’s wicked rock-n-roll devil! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"01627_02_Diablo1\"<\/p>\n

\"01627_03_Neckplate1\"<\/p>\n

\"01627_04_Headstock1\"<\/p>\n

\"01627_05_Diablo_the_Destroyer1\"<\/p>\n

These mods are done so well that some would even be fooled into thinking this was a stock model. Well done!<\/p>\n

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For the first time since starting Bass of the Week, we have our first Ibanez Destroyer, sent by owner Hugh, and modified by Dave Crowder. Hugh writes: Diablo the Destroyer! Here’s a bass that will always stand out in the crowd! This bass started as an Ibanez DTB100 Destroyer limited run based the 80’s Model: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5586,"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\/5584"}],"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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}