{"id":8965,"date":"2016-05-23T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:34:22","slug":"an-interview-with-sheldon-dingwall-of-dingwall-guitars-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/interviews\/an-interview-with-sheldon-dingwall-of-dingwall-guitars-part-6.html","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Sheldon Dingwall of Dingwall Guitars &#8211; Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:6px;background:#ffffc0;border:1px solid #555555\">See Sheldon Dingwall&#8217;s business listing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/techdirectory\/detail\/dingwall-guitars-2315\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before anyone asks, no, these longboards are not being made anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guys who make basses will usually at some point try something different &#8220;just because.&#8221; Woodworking obviously doesn&#8217;t need to limited to just bass guitars.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when Dingwall had some longboards constructed, and they were genuinely crafted well.<\/p>\n<p>What stopped Dingwall from making making more? As Sheldon will describe below, a decision had to be made whether to go all-in with longboards or all-in with basses, and it was decided that basses should be the company focus.<\/p>\n<p>As the old saying goes, do one thing and do it well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/osJo4GIufbc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Sheldon Dingwall&#8217;s business listing here Before anyone asks, no, these longboards are not being made anymore. Guys who make basses will usually at some point try something different &#8220;just because.&#8221; Woodworking obviously doesn&#8217;t need to limited to just bass guitars. There was a time when Dingwall had some longboards constructed, and they were genuinely &#8230; <a title=\"An interview with Sheldon Dingwall of Dingwall Guitars &#8211; Part 6\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/interviews\/an-interview-with-sheldon-dingwall-of-dingwall-guitars-part-6.html\" aria-label=\"More on An interview with Sheldon Dingwall of Dingwall Guitars &#8211; Part 6\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965"}],"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=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}