{"id":7420,"date":"2015-06-23T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:40:27","slug":"picking-a-wood-for-your-bass-have-a-helpful-chart-to-know-word-hardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/picking-a-wood-for-your-bass-have-a-helpful-chart-to-know-word-hardness.html","title":{"rendered":"Picking a wood for your bass? Have a helpful chart to know word hardness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many bass builders are very particular about the wood used for the body. Some choose specific woods for considerations such as weight, certain tonal qualities, how easy or not it is to carve, color, grain style, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Wood hardness is determined using something called the Janka Hardness Scale. This scale (and the chart displayed below) is from Tiny Timbers <a href=\"https:\/\/tinytimbers.com\/janka.htm\">web page on the subject<\/a>, so if you want to know the absolute numbers that go along with certain woods, you can check that out.<\/p>\n<p>This chart is a quick, easy reference to which woods are harder and which are softer. While not a complete list, it gives you a very good idea what would be easier to work with compared to others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does this chart benefit you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you have a basic idea of the hardness of woods, this opens up a selection of different species you might have not thought about building with. For example, California Redwood is soft stuff. Maybe that would not be your first choice for a body wood, but for decorative pieces on the headstock, that may work very nicely for your project (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redwoodsalvagesales.com\/\">perhaps some salvaged old growth redwood?<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think the chart is accurate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post a comment or two with what you think of the chart below. Do you think it is good for a general reference?<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"image-7\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-7.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1613\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many bass builders are very particular about the wood used for the body. Some choose specific woods for considerations such as weight, certain tonal qualities, how easy or not it is to carve, color, grain style, and so on. Wood hardness is determined using something called the Janka Hardness Scale. This scale (and the chart &#8230; <a title=\"Picking a wood for your bass? Have a helpful chart to know word hardness\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/picking-a-wood-for-your-bass-have-a-helpful-chart-to-know-word-hardness.html\" aria-label=\"More on Picking a wood for your bass? Have a helpful chart to know word hardness\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420"}],"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=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}