{"id":7882,"date":"2015-10-07T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:15:59","slug":"bass-of-the-week-bartlett-jje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-bartlett-jje.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Bartlett JJE"},"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\/ben-bartlett-523\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s feature bass has a fingerboard with a contrasting wood species for the octave frets. <\/p>\n<p>Builder Ben Bartlett writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I built this bass for someone who bought one of my last basses. It has an ebony fretboard with American holly on the 12th and 24th frets. The pickups are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/nordstrand-pickups.htm\">Nordstrand Big Splits<\/a>. The preamp is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/mike-pope-preamps.htm\">Mike Pope Flexcore<\/a>, Bridge Volume\/Master Tone stacked, Neck Volume control, Treble\/Bass stacked, Hi Mid control, Lo Mid control, Active\/Passive toggle switch. The tuners and Bridge are <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-ultralight-tuners.htm\">Hipshot<\/a>. It has a Hotrod Dual action truss Rod and a custom made brass nut. 35&#8243; scale. The top wood is Cocobolo with a Mahogany core and maple back. The neck is Wenge, Purpleheart and Flame Maple. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_01_image\" 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=\"04643_01_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_01_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1525\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_02_image\" 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=\"04643_02_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_02_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1957\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_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=\"04643_03_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_03_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_04_image\" 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=\"04643_04_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_04_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_05_image\" 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=\"04643_05_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_05_image.jpg\" width=\"579\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_06_image\" 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=\"04643_06_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_06_image1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"628\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_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=\"04643_07_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_07_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_08_image\" 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=\"04643_08_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_08_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"04643_09_image\" 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=\"04643_09_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/04643_09_image.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"531\"><\/p>\n<p>Well done, Ben!<\/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>See the business listing for this bass builder here This week&#8217;s feature bass has a fingerboard with a contrasting wood species for the octave frets. Builder Ben Bartlett writes: I built this bass for someone who bought one of my last basses. It has an ebony fretboard with American holly on the 12th and 24th &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Bartlett JJE\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-bartlett-jje.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Bartlett JJE\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7872,"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\/7882"}],"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=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}