{"id":5907,"date":"2014-07-02T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:58:08","slug":"bass-of-the-week-woodspeak-basses-expansion-5-custom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-woodspeak-basses-expansion-5-custom.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Woodspeak Basses Expansion 5 Custom"},"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\/james-cook-3498\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Bass of the Week comes from the The Pine Tree State, better known as the State of Maine, USA. And this bass has a very interesting &#8220;canyon wall&#8221; style neck heel treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Builder James Cook writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All non wood components of this instrument are from Best Bass Gear. <\/p>\n<p>The body is master grade flame Maple over Walnut with a Red Cedar core and Padauk tone block. <\/p>\n<p>The neck is a tapered core Cedar with Walnut and flame Maple laminations. <\/p>\n<p>Ziricote fretboard sound amazing! <\/p>\n<p>All Hipshot hardware, Bartolini dual coils and an Aguilar OBP-3 preamp. <\/p>\n<p>The bass was hand made in my Freeport, Maine workshop about 3 miles from LLBean HQ. <\/p>\n<p>The asymmetrical body is designed for comfortable play on a 35&#8243; scale platform. <\/p>\n<p>The heel is designed for playing in the higher registers in several different positions. We harvest our own woods whenever possible. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_01_image\" 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=\"02311_01_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_01_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1322\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_02_image\" 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=\"02311_02_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_02_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1479\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_03_image\" 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=\"02311_03_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_03_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"956\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_04_image\" 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=\"02311_04_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_04_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_05_image\" 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=\"02311_05_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_05_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_06_image\" 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=\"02311_06_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_06_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"02311_07_image\" 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=\"02311_07_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/02311_07_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\"><\/p>\n<p>test<\/p>\n<p>Well done, James!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Want to be featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/>Submit yours right now <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\">using our easy web form<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the business listing for this bass builder here This week&#8217;s Bass of the Week comes from the The Pine Tree State, better known as the State of Maine, USA. And this bass has a very interesting &#8220;canyon wall&#8221; style neck heel treatment. Builder James Cook writes: All non wood components of this instrument are &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Woodspeak Basses Expansion 5 Custom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-woodspeak-basses-expansion-5-custom.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Woodspeak Basses Expansion 5 Custom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5909,"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\/5907"}],"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=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}