Devon from Canadian indie alternative rock/folk and indie pop bands Hey Ocean / Beekeeper plays his Basone Clone custom guitar at a live show in Vancouver BC.
*Photo by Jessica Brodeur at Vancouver Music Review of Altered By Mom at Rickshaw Vancouver.
This new Clone has a bookmatched BC maple top, Bookmatched Honduran Mahog Back & 1 piece 1/4 sawn matching neck, select indian rosewood fingerboard on quarter, 2 hums, indian ebony headstock veneer w/inlay. Deeeep set neck- tortoise pickguard to finish, BAS
Mother-of-toilet fretmarkers replaced with trad MoP , mucho mojo upgrade!
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Fretless bass fingerboard epoxy job – this is done so round wound strings don’t damage the bare wood fingerboard. Jaco trick. Pretty cool!
Meeting the demands of the market, Basone Guitars has now released its new 25-fret 6-string Bass Guitar.
All raw materials are hand selected: the body and neck are made of Honduran Mahogany, the body top is made of Spalted Maple with black Walnut and Indian Ebony accents. These bass guitars are hollow, whereas most basses are solid body. Our instruments’ body chambering, as well as the hybrid tonewood structure, result in a beautiful low piano like striking sound that reverberates even when the bass guitar is played unplugged.
These six-strings unveil a wider range of playability. The 25 frets allow the player to reach at least 5 octaves comfortably. Because of the wide long neck, two truss rods are used for extra support.
The Basone 6-string Bass is equipped with Gotoh 510 supertuners, Custom Gotoh 6-string Bass bridge, and Graphtech black tusq nut. The Bartolini pickup, with Ghost Acoustiphonic Midi Hexpander Piezo system lets the player plug in the instrument to an amp as well as play midi sounds through the bass (2 separate outputs).
As always, the combination of high-end tonewoods, electronics and hardware make the guitars of the Basone family feel, sound, and look second to none.
Basone Guitars products can be found at Basone Guitar Shop in Vancouver BC, or online. Basone also offers acoustic and electric guitar repair, including set-ups, paintjobs, crack repair, guitar detailing, hard-to-find replacement parts, etc. For more information on our products, services and custom orders, visit our website basoneguitars.com, call (604) 677-0311 or email info@basoneguitars.com.
Fretboard sea…
New front entrance of Basone Guitar 
Shop – One block E of Main st, Free Parking!
318 East 5th Avenue, Vancouver BC Canada
Saddles are off a 15 year old Strat – filed the worn down grooves out and re-polished.
Now she won’t pop strings anymore, plus stays original!
Guitar tops being glued, going in & out of planer – have now a fresh stack of tops ready to cut out! More info on Maple below.
Maple, as a result of its greater weight and lower sound velocity, can be downright flat sounding, a blessing in disguise when a guitar is amplified at high sound pressure levels. This is why maple is the wood of choice for electric guitar tops. West coast big leaf maple is the softest and lightest of the maple family, with a wood grain that resembles waves. Aside from a visually breathtaking pattern, the wavy fibers of “curly” maple reduce the long grain stiffness and vibrate more freely. (This is the secret to the bright, clear powerful sound of the Parker Fly, a solid-body guitar made with a curly maple body.) – Source: sweetwater.com
Guitar nut replacement on an Epiphone – handcarved bone replacing machine-made plastic. Much better sustain & tone (and looks).
To quote ultimate-guitar-online.com,  “if you are getting a lot of buzzing with your open strings when you are not strumming the guitar too hard, it is likely that you will be needing a guitar nut replacement. (…) Another common reason that nuts need  replacement is after a refret job is preformed. The strings were seated in the nut lower and there was not any buzzing on the frets because they were worn. With new frets installed, the top level of the new frets will extend too close to the string action of the old nut grooves.”
They also point out the nut material difference (guitar nut that is):
Plastic: Forget it. Plastic is an insulator and it also insulates sound. Corian is often used on some factory guitars and would be ok to use on cheaper guitars. I have a supply of scrap white corian that I picked up from my local building supply center for these installations.
Bone: Bone is a very good material to use for nuts and saddles. The bone is bleached and is very white, hard and dense. If transfers the sound very well from the strings to the tone producing elements of the guitar. Ideally used for high-end guitars, handmade guitars and classical guitar. The black should be an Oversized Bone Nut Blank.
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