B.C. RICH Guitars and Basses at Basone

We are now carrying B.C. RICH GUITARS & BASSES! Just got the first batch, including the top selling MOCKINGBIRD in Cherry Sunburst and the Gunslinger Retro in bright yellow, shaped to shock & built to rock!! so come get yours!!

Mockingbird ST
The Mockingbird ST is the most popular model in the Mockingbird family. The heart of the ST is its Floyd Rose Original tremolo and a pair of Duncan Designed HB-103 pickups. These high output pickups are controlled with a selection of knobs and switches that include a 5 position varitone filter knob, two coil tap switches and a reverse phase switch. The neck-through construction also assures great tone and full fingerboard access. Other goodies include an ebony fingerboard, diamond inlays and Grover tuners. Both the Transparent Red, Transparent Blue, Transparent Purple and Honey burst color options perfectly highlight this model’s quilt maple top. The Mockingbird ST is also available in a solid Pearl White finish.
KEY FEATURES
CONSTRUCTION: Neck Through
BODY WOOD: Mahogany
PICKUPS: Duncan Design

Mockingbird Masterpiece
Masterpiece Mockingbirds are not short on looks or features. This bolt-on guitar has an arched top with a quilted maple veneer. It is scaled to 24 5/8” with 24 jumbo frets and has a rosewood fingerboard with vintage cloud inlays.
KEY FEATURES
CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-On
BODY WOOD: Mahogany
PICKUPS: Duncan Design
Mags McCarthy – Solo Artist
Dan Mitchell – Autumns Eyes

Gunslinger Retro
Ever wish you could get in the Heavy Metal Wayback Machine and travel back to the heyday of metal? Well now you can! B.C. Rich is proud to present Gunslinger guitars that are styled after some of its most popular models from the mid-to-late 80s.
KEY FEATURES
CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-On
BODY WOOD: Basswood
PICKUPS: Duncan Design

G & L Tribute Fiorano and Ascari models NOW AVAILABLE at Basone!

G&L Fiorano and Ascari models now available at Basone!

G&L founder Leo Fender had a vision for a new guitar. G&L’s Steve Grom uncovered the sketch three decades later in Leo’s workshop, and the result is an instrument that’s steeped in rock-guitar history but groundbreaking: the Fiorano, the first set-neck, 25½”-scale, three-tuners-to-a-side guitar G&L has ever offered.

It joins the pioneering 24¾”-scale Ascari in G&L’s Tribute Series, and it delivers on its promise.The 24-fret neck and Gagon-designed humbuckers are made for brutal riffing and detuned/drop-tuned heaviness – but the Fiorino cleans up beautifully when asked.

Hacked body rebuild, repaint and restore by Basone.

Previously owned by Rick Hunolt of Exodus – rebuilt the edges, refinished, put it back together for Ian N.

New flamed maple top Clone guitar

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

Scalloped frets

Andrew Gerard and Keston stopped by to pickup his guitar with newly scalloped frets, MAN can these guys play! Curious about scalloped frets? Here’s some info from GUITAR MASTER CLASS‘ website: “A fretboard is scalloped when the wood between the frets is scalloped out, creating a soft U shape between the frets. The result of this is that the finger only has to touch the string in order to fret the string.

Process
The process of scalloping the fretboard is a precise work. It’s normally done by using a file and filing the wood between the frets. It takes a lot of time, but getting it done is expensive. The scalloped necks are mostly found by people who play shred guitar and who are more experienced guitar players. The most famous user of the scalloped fingerboard is probably mister Yngwie Malmsteen. He worked together with Fender to make his own signature Fender Stratocaster named the Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster. Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple also uses a scalloped fretboard. Also the Ibanez E-Gen model (which is a signature from Herman Li) has four scalloped frets. Guitars with a very complex fretboard inlay, normaly don’t get scalloped, the inlay will be scalloped off as well. Only the simple dots or blocks survive the scalloping procedure.
A scalloped fingerboard can be fully scalloped, meaning all the frets are scalloped, from the first until the last. It can also be partial scalloped meaning only a part of the frets are scalloped. Guitar players with partial scallop often have their scallop in the higher frets. E.g. from the 12th fret and up.

Advantages and disadvantages
The most obvious difference between scalloped and non-scalloped fretboards, is that the scalloped version doesn’t have any contact between the wood and the string. This results in less friction between the wood and the string when bending and vibrating. The guitarist doesn’t have to use as much power as he would have needed for a non-scalloped fretboard. This allows the player to play faster because the can just jump over the notes with his fingers, a light touch is enough.
However, there also are disadvantages of the scalloped fretboard. A lot of starting guitar players find playing on a scalloped guitar harder then playing on a non-scalloped fretboard. It does take some practice to play with it. A guitar player is used to putting pressure when he frets a note, but on a scalloped guitar, this just leads to a detune because the string is then bend towards the fret, giving a higer pitch.”

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: 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