Author Topic: What wood is this bass? (Read 314 times)

David Houck · « **Reply #15 on:** August 14, 2009, 07:07:43 PM »

David; Mica's post on finish care can be found here.

dfung60 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 16, 2009, 01:13:02 PM »

Hey, did you know your bass had an older brother? The family resemblance is striking!

I think mine is older than yours (serial is 83 2731), since I have the older flat top pickups. I had assumed that this top was rosewood, but I would probably also agree that it's bubinga because of the straight grain and big open pores. I believe Bubinga is a member of the rosewood family, so I'm not totally wrong. Yes, I need to get a new pointy pickup selector! And before anybody asks, that round thing in the corner of the picture is a special lens cap for my camera. The white dome is a special diffuser that lets me set the white balance without a neutral target. David Fung

David Houck · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2009, 03:42:14 PM »

Very nice bass!!

terryc · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2009, 04:09:22 PM »

david..I guess you don't like too much boom from the neck pu as you have it tilted inward away from the E & A strings???
Nice bass!!!!

dfung60 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 16, 2009, 05:10:56 PM »

I do have the neck pickup tilted unevenly and both pickups are relatively far from the strings (the bridge pickup is pretty much parallel). This makes for just the right tonal balance on this bass with both pickup volumes turned up. There's no knob tweaking that made for the right balance otherwise across the full frequency range. Relatively to my other Alembics, I think the low-end output of the bridge pickup is low rather than the neck pickup being unusually bassy.

This works out well for playing with a pick too. I would normally pick in between the pickups, but with the Exploiter body shape, your arm tends to scoot more toward the neck.

David Fung