So finally some nice shots & sounds of one of the lapsteels I made a couple years ago. BC maples, honduran mahogs, handshaped brass nut, growling cabrera pups…and a custom wooden body wedge to keep Mike’s playing upright & outstanding. Go see THE JARDINES! Bas
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Tag Archives: mahogany
Headstock rebuild on a 12-string 1975 acoustic guitar
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New flamed maple top Clone guitar
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fretmarker replacement
Mother-of-toilet fretmarkers replaced with trad MoP , mucho mojo upgrade!
To know more about Mother of Pearl, check out Wikipedia’s page:Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacre
Fretless bass finberdoard epoxy job
Fretless bass fingerboard epoxy job – this is done so round wound strings don’t damage the bare wood fingerboard. Jaco trick. Pretty cool!
6-string 25-fret Basone Bass
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
Fretboard sea…
New Basone Guitar Shop entrance
New front entrance of Basone Guitar Shop – One block E of Main st, Free Parking!
318 East 5th Avenue, Vancouver BC Canada
Keeping the Strat’s original saddles
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 – gluing and planing
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