{"id":7406,"date":"2015-06-17T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2015-06-17T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:21:24","slug":"bass-of-the-week-cb-basses-big-mcneely-deluxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-cb-basses-big-mcneely-deluxe.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] CB Basses Big McNeely Deluxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s feature bass was built in The Sunshine State!<\/p>\n<p>Owner George Halcomb writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a CB Bass from <strong>Cliff Bordwell at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cbbasses.com\"><strong>cbbasses.com<\/strong><\/a><strong> in Florida<\/strong>. This is an absolute work of art you can play with. At lot of magic in this one. Have been playing over 40 years and this is the finest machine for me I have put my hands on. His stuff looks, plays and sounds super great. Dealing with Cliff was fun and he is sane. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Wood: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rambutan top and peg head, Ash body core, Maple and Wenge neck, Birdseye Maple fingerboard, Purpleheart back and cavity cover. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Electronics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/nordstrand-pickups.htm\">Nordstrand<\/a> BigSplit in neck, BigMan in bridge with single switch and Audere preamp withVV \/ TB<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardware: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hipshot <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-bass-bridges.htm\">bridge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-ultralight-tuners.htm\">tuners<\/a>, and knobs in Shiny Nickel Numbers<\/p>\n<p>34in scale, 14in fingerboadr radius, 19mm string spacing, and an Asymmetrical neck carve. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_03_Bordwell-Fingerboard.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"1048\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_04_Boardwell-headstock.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_05_Bordwell-back.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_06_Boardwell-Neck-Joint.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_01_Bordwell-front.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_02_Bordwell-3_41.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"\" 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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/03815_07_Bordwell-Paisleys.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/p>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want <i>YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\"><strong>Submit yours now using our easy web form<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s feature bass was built in The Sunshine State! Owner George Halcomb writes: This is a CB Bass from Cliff Bordwell at cbbasses.com in Florida. This is an absolute work of art you can play with. At lot of magic in this one. Have been playing over 40 years and this is the finest &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] CB Basses Big McNeely Deluxe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-cb-basses-big-mcneely-deluxe.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] CB Basses Big McNeely Deluxe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[29,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406"}],"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=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}