{"id":9621,"date":"2016-08-30T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:32:49","slug":"bass-of-the-week-iturra-dc-fnd5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-iturra-dc-fnd5.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Iturra DC-FND5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The feature bass for this week happened from a desire to “test” fanned frets.<\/p>\n

Cristian Huidobro owns this instrument, and it was built by Alfonso Iturra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cristian writes:<\/p>\n

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Some years ago, I was entertaining the notion of testing fanned frets. I saw some really great another-famed-fanned-frets-brad basses, but since I live in Chile it was expensive to get a hold of them. <\/p>\n

Coincidentally, around the same time The-brand-with-a-misspelled-Spanish-name released their Premier range, and I felt in love with the woods and the looks of those basses. So it was pretty obvious what the solution was. <\/p>\n

I asked Alfonso, who has previously built my two other basses, if he would dare to try something he has never done before: fanned frets. Of course he was! And since I have the utmost confidence in him, we begin planning on it. <\/p>\n

Following the Premier’s road-map, it has a mahogany body, with wenge top and back.  It also sports a bloodwood laminate.  Neck is made of wenge and bubinga, and a wenge fretboard, giving it an amazing range of mids and lows. It’s an active bass equipped with a John East U-retro preamp<\/a>, and 2 Nordstrand fat stack<\/a>. It has an all-Hipshot. I bought all  electronics and hardware at Best Bass Gear. <\/p>\n

It plays like a dream, and it sounds even better. It’s as bit on the heavy side, but nothing that a wide strap can’t fix. I really love this bass, and it shows how versatile and well-versed in his craft Alfonso is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Well done!<\/p>\n

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