{"id":6267,"date":"2014-09-17T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2017-04-27T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:23:22","slug":"bass-of-the-week-dog-tired-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-dog-tired-guitars.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Dog Tired Guitars Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This week’s BotW is in the style of a Fender Starcaster – but with the full 34-inch scale length.<\/p>\n

Roger Cowan of Dog Tired Guitars<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

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One of the bass players in our church worship band asked me to build this after having seen the guitars I built for our worship leader. Since I\u2019d not done a bass before, she was willing to be the guinea pig for the prototype.She wanted a 5 string fretless, and the main points were that it needed to be fairly light and well-balanced. I\u2019ve got a good friend who also happens to be an incredible bassist and devout gear geek, so he helped me with the design.<\/p>\n

We based the body off the Fender Starcaster but made it a full 34″ scale rather than short scale. That meant that I didn\u2019t have enough room behind the bridge to do a proper top carve like on the original, so I had to find some other way of breaking up all the real estate on the top. I came up with the idea of elevating the wings and doing recessed control knobs. That helped to add a bit more visual interest without taking away from the spectacular figure in the maple.<\/p>\n

– Heavily chambered mahogany body with curly maple cap
– 5 piece neck (walnut\/maple)
– Ebony fingerboard with curly maple fret lines
– Carbon fiber stiffening rods and dual action truss rod
– Seymour Duncan Jazz bass neck pickup and Musicman-style bridge humbucker
– Active preamp with volume, blend, treble, mid, bass controls
– Walnut accent stripes inlaid into body
– Finish is tinted shellac under lacquer top coat<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well done, Roger!<\/p>\n

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See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s BotW is in the style of a Fender Starcaster – but with the full 34-inch scale length. Roger Cowan of Dog Tired Guitars writes: One of the bass players in our church worship band asked me to build this after having seen the guitars … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6270,"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\/6267"}],"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=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}