{"id":8784,"date":"2016-04-20T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8784"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:03:35","slug":"bass-of-the-week-galveston-donald-boyd-acrylic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-galveston-donald-boyd-acrylic.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Galveston \/ Donald Boyd Acrylic"},"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\/matt-brocking-9369\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week on Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BestBassGear\/photos\/a.209215909108926.58293.174857155878135\/1128600950503746\">we informed the audience<\/a> that we&#8217;ve never seen an acrylic-bodied instrument submitted for Bass of the Week, and that if someone submitted one they might be featured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EnforcerX\">Matt Brocking<\/a> delivered with a modified Galveston bass.<\/p>\n<p>Matt writes (this is short, but it gets the point across):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Originally a Galveston body, new neck made by me and Donald Boyd Acrylic. I have always wanted an acrylic bass, so I made my vision. It has an active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/emg-pickups.htm\">EMG JX neck pickup<\/a> with reversed phasing, and an active Chrome MEC bridge pickup, as well as a Kahler tremolo system<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"20160218_210330\" 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=\"20160218_210330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160218_210330.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1065\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"10628718_10152888201073296_8914581117685096380_o\" 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=\"10628718_10152888201073296_8914581117685096380_o\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/10628718_10152888201073296_8914581117685096380_o.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"20151007_180813\" 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=\"20151007_180813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20151007_180813.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"12823496_10154190730413296_2488302925265468685_o\" 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=\"12823496_10154190730413296_2488302925265468685_o\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12823496_10154190730413296_2488302925265468685_o.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want <i>YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/><a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week-entry-form\">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 Last week on Facebook, we informed the audience that we&#8217;ve never seen an acrylic-bodied instrument submitted for Bass of the Week, and that if someone submitted one they might be featured. Matt Brocking delivered with a modified Galveston bass. Matt writes (this is short, but it &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] Galveston \/ Donald Boyd Acrylic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-galveston-donald-boyd-acrylic.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] Galveston \/ Donald Boyd Acrylic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8779,"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\/8784"}],"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=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}