Basswood Guitar or Bass Body Blank

Doeringer Guitars, makers of superior handmade custom guitars and pickups now offers body blanks

 

This is a guitar or bass body blank made from 2 piece Basswood

14.5 x 1 3/4 x 22 inches.

Wood is joined, glued and surfaced on all sides.

Basswood
Pronounced bass like the fish. This wood gained popularity in the 80s and for a time was probably the most used wood for locking tremolo guitars. It is very light weight and produces a fairly even and full mid-range response throughout the entire band width. Many people feel it is extremely well matched with humbucking pickups because it produces a lot of the same frequencies that humbuckers easily reproduce. This is not to say that single coil tones aren't great as well. Toward the end of the late 80s, a few other species of woods were mistakenly thought to be basswood and this seemed to lead to a decline in basswood's popularity. However, true basswood does produce a very pleasing midrange tone and is the only type of basswood used here. Its natural color is light blond to off white with little to no discernible grain. For this reason, an opaque paint color is usually chosen for a solid basswood body.

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