{"id":7849,"date":"2015-09-30T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2015-09-30T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:05:29","slug":"bass-of-the-week-button-akg-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-button-akg-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Button AKG Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The feature bass this week is a fretless with a nice selection of woods and an upscale appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Ashley Gray writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Custom made in 1998 to my own specifications by the late Rod Button, luthier of Weston-super-Mare. The body of this superb six-string fretless bass is Walnut, faced with burr Elm and bound with abalone inlays. The neck is Maple with an Ebony fingerboard. The bass features <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/emg-pickups.htm\">EMG pickups<\/a> and active electronics. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_02_IMG_0248\" 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=\"04487_02_IMG_0248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_02_IMG_0248.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_03_IMG_0261\" 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=\"04487_03_IMG_0261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_03_IMG_0261.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_04_IMG_0265\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"04487_04_IMG_0265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_04_IMG_0265.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_05_IMG_0250\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"04487_05_IMG_0250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_05_IMG_0250.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_06_IMG_0252\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"04487_06_IMG_0252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_06_IMG_0252.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_07_IMG_0253\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"04487_07_IMG_0253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_07_IMG_0253.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_08_IMG_0254\" 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=\"04487_08_IMG_0254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_08_IMG_0254.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04487_09_IMG_0271\" 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=\"04487_09_IMG_0271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/04487_09_IMG_0271.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want <i>YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\">Submit yours now using our easy web form<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feature bass this week is a fretless with a nice selection of woods and an upscale appearance. Owner Ashley Gray writes: Custom made in 1998 to my own specifications by the late Rod Button, luthier of Weston-super-Mare. The body of this superb six-string fretless bass is Walnut, faced with burr Elm and bound with &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Button AKG Bass\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-button-akg-bass.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Button AKG Bass\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849"}],"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=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}