{"id":896,"date":"2012-04-19T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:52:26","slug":"bass-of-the-week-francis-james-hunnycut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/bass-of-the-week-francis-james-hunnycut.html","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Francis James Hunnycut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks BotW comes from Francis James Hunnycut, who had it built for him by his own brother.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My little brother, Steve Davis, made this bass for me at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberto-venn.com\">Roberto Venn School of Luthiery<\/a>. Note the white and black walnut fretboard, and my initials for the 12th inlay.<\/p>\n<p>She is sportin&#8217; a fat<a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/bartolini-pickups-2.htm\"> Bartolini pickup<\/a>, and he put in a bypass, so I can run it passive if I drain the battery. He also put on a <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/hipshot-detuner-extender.htm\">Hipshot for instant drop tuning<\/a>. The inlays, run on a separate battery, have a toggle that lights them up on demand for those darker venues &#8230; oh yeah, he made the string spacing a little wider so to accommodate aggressive slapping. This bass rules!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you want your bass featured?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BestBassGear\">Post a picture of your bass on our facebook wall<\/a> and we may pick it as our Bass of the Week! Your bass will be featured on our facebook timeline cover photo and, if your bass is picked, it will also be featured in our e:Bass newsletter for thousands to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks BotW comes from Francis James Hunnycut, who had it built for him by his own brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,19,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}