The main desire in designing the J bass was produce a truly new instrument and not just to copy and try to improve on what must be the most copied bass guitar design.
So make an instrument that utilises the best design concepts from the original instrument and introduce ideas that take the bass to the next level of playability, comfort and tone.
As standard all the models use Premium Swamp Ash, selected for weight, grain structure and resonance.
Flame, Quilt bookmatched tops (and the usual wild, weird and wonderful)
Most models feature laminated maple necks, to improve stability and strength. A two-way truss rod is fitted to all necks.
Fretted fingerboards of Indian Rosewood, Maple or Ebony, fretless boards of ebony or Composite (also available for fretted boards on the Elite). Angled-back headstocks improve tuning stability, maintaing an even pressure across the nut.
Custom wound Shuker 'RE' J pickups available on 4 and 5 strings as well as EMG, Bartolini, Aero, Seymour Duncan and Dimarzio.
2 and 3 band Shuker circuits as well as EMG and Aguilar.
Individual bridge units as well as traditional solid bridges such as Badass, Gotoh and ABM.
Polyester / Polyurethane
finishes on the Custom and Elite, Nitrocellulose on the Classic, Polyurethane
on the standard.
