{"id":9586,"date":"2016-08-24T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:32:04","slug":"bass-of-the-week-juehne-marco-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-juehne-marco-7.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Juehne Marco 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The original idea for this bass was to build a 9 or 10-string, but ended up with 7 instead.<\/p>\n

Builder Thomas Juehne writes:<\/p>\n

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You featured the bass I built for my son in a Best Bass Gear email “How a father made his son a dream bass guitar”. Thank you for sharing this letter with the rest of your readers. I was quite shocked to see it. It was surreal to see the image of my son Marco and the bass.<\/p>\n

I thought I might share a bit of the bass story, some photos of the bass and images of the design and build. <\/p>\n

To begin, my son asked if I could build him a 9-10 string bass. I had built a guitar for myself, but did not know the first thing about bass.  For example, guitar scale length 24.75″ Les Paul with mahogany body has a nice crunchy sound and 25.5″ Strat ash body creates more twang. What scale length and wood make for a good bass tone? Then I thought who needs that many strings, that’s just crazy. My first response was “No, it is way too big and too complicated. It is beyond my skill set” I told him, “at best I could attempt a 7-string build, but he needed to tell me what it was he wanted.” At the time he was busy with school and I never heard another word.<\/p>\n

Six month out from his graduation, I decided to design and build him a bass. The design took the most time. The lines, the shape had to wait on scale length and neck attachment. What about the neck attachment; set, through or bolt on and scale, short or long?  How should I support the neck, with single or dual truss rod? Below is what I settled on:<\/p>\n

I want to say thank you again to Max and Best Bass Gear for help in choosing the electronics and pickups. I also wanted to thank Max for his insight, knowledge and conversations. BTW the sound of this beast is incredible; I should have built the 10-string. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well done, and we were happy to assist!<\/p>\n

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See the business listing for this bass builder here The original idea for this bass was to build a 9 or 10-string, but ended up with 7 instead. Builder Thomas Juehne writes: You featured the bass I built for my son in a Best Bass Gear email “How a father made his son a dream … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9579,"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\/9586"}],"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=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}