{"id":8166,"date":"2015-12-22T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:23:22","slug":"bass-of-the-week-roy-epps-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-roy-epps-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Roy Epps 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The builder of this bass was given the instructions to make it look like a Rickenbacker, and this is what he came up with. The end result? Something pretty darned good.<\/p>\n

Builder Roy Epps writes:<\/p>\n

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I have been a wood worker for many years and I started building guitars about 10 years ago just for fun. I have now finished over 40 guitars. I enjoy building guitars more than any other wood project. I have never sold a guitar and typically give them away to people at Church or other places that do not have the money to afford a decent guitar. I have gotten better over the years and now have a list of people asking for a guitar. A friend of mine at work asked me if I could build a bass for his nephew. I told him I would and asked what he was looking for. All I got for a response was that he liked the shape of a Rickenbacker. Based on that I sketched out what I thought was the basic shape and began this build. It is a through body bass with a Maple center and two pieces of Purple Heart covered by Walnut. The body follows that same theme with Quilted Maple on the top sandwiching a layer of Purple Heart and then a book matched piece of Walnut on the back. Fret Board is Rosewood. <\/p>\n

The pickups are EMG active pickups that I found at Best Bass Gear<\/a> and they sound great. The first guitars I ever built took me years to build because I was always afraid to take the next step for fear I would ruin something. If you have never built a guitar I would encourage you to give it a try. It is very satisfying to see something you built get played in front of many people. The people at Best Bass Gear are full of good advice. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well done!<\/p>\n

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See the business listing for this bass builder here The builder of this bass was given the instructions to make it look like a Rickenbacker, and this is what he came up with. The end result? Something pretty darned good. Builder Roy Epps writes: I have been a wood worker for many years and I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8155,"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\/8166"}],"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=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}