{"id":5663,"date":"2014-05-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2014-05-14T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T08:02:33","slug":"bass-of-the-week-franz-bassguitars-wega-5-flamed-maple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-franz-bassguitars-wega-5-flamed-maple.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Franz Bassguitars Wega 5 Flamed Maple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our BotW this week comes from Germany, concentrating on an elegant, minimalist look.<\/p>\n<p>Builder Xavel Tremel writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are a small atelier in Northern Bavaria, Germany, and we build handmade basses of best quality: www.franz-bassguitars.de <\/p>\n<p>More about the Wega 5 Flamed Maple: <\/p>\n<p>Franz Bassguitars Wega 5 Flamed Maple Amber bass guitar, 5-Saiter, alder body, flamed maple top, 5-piece thermo maple thomann neck (neck-glued-on-construction), 876 mm scale (34 1\/2&#8243;), birdseye maple fretboard, 24 frets, matching headstock, 2x Delano JSBC pickups, Noll TCM2 active\/passiv 2-band elektronics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/gotoh-sealed-tuners.htm\">Gotoh mechanics<\/a>, ETS 3D bridge, 19 mm string spacing, black hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Colour: amber satin, incl. case, weight: 4,04kg, Made in Thomann Germany <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01804_01_DSC_0002klein\" 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=\"01804_01_DSC_0002klein\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/01804_01_DSC_0002klein.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01804_02_Wega 1306_1klein\" 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=\"01804_02_Wega 1306_1klein\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/01804_02_Wega-1306_1klein.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01804_03_Wega 1306_5klein\" 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=\"01804_03_Wega 1306_5klein\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/01804_03_Wega-1306_5klein.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01804_04_Wega 1306_7klein\" 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=\"01804_04_Wega 1306_7klein\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/01804_04_Wega-1306_7klein.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1063\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"01804_05_Wega honig Drehung 1klein\" 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=\"01804_05_Wega honig Drehung 1klein\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/01804_05_Wega-honig-Drehung-1klein.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1063\"><\/p>\n<p>This is most certainly a thoughtful, well-crafted design that any player would love to own. Well done, Xavel!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Want to have your bass featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\">Submit yours right now using our easy web form<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our BotW this week comes from Germany, concentrating on an elegant, minimalist look. Builder Xavel Tremel writes: We are a small atelier in Northern Bavaria, Germany, and we build handmade basses of best quality: www.franz-bassguitars.de More about the Wega 5 Flamed Maple: Franz Bassguitars Wega 5 Flamed Maple Amber bass guitar, 5-Saiter, alder body, flamed &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Franz Bassguitars Wega 5 Flamed Maple\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-franz-bassguitars-wega-5-flamed-maple.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Franz Bassguitars Wega 5 Flamed Maple\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5659,"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\/5663"}],"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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}