Ashdown Engineering

Die Arche

Name: Die Arche
Brand: Ashdown Engineering
Price: 1099.0 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

£1,099.00

Der Bogen wurde gemeinsam mit Dan Lakin entworfen

Nun, ein P-Bass ist einfach unschlagbar. Das war 1957 der Fall, und mit einigen kleinen Verbesserungen ist unser ARC heute noch genauso, wie er sein sollte. Dank Dans Kenntnissen über Bässe und seinem Auge fürs Detail werden unsere Bässe nach seinen hohen Standards gefertigt. Mit einem speziell gewickelten Split-Humbucker liefert unser ARC satte, vertraute Töne, tief und doch klar.

Mit Hipshot-Tunern und Wilkinson-Brücken wurden diese Bässe aus den bestmöglichen Materialien für den professionellen Einsatz unterwegs, zu Hause oder im Studio hergestellt. Die Bassserie von Ashdown ist so gebaut, dass sie den Test der Zeit besteht.

SPECIFICATIONS:

BODY WOOD - LIGHTWEIGHT ALDER

BODY FINISH - HIGH GLOSS POLY

NECK WOOD - MAPLE

FINGERBOARD WOOD – ROSEWOOD

NECK FINISH - OIL

FINGERBOARD RADIUS - 10

TRUSS ROD - 2 WAY - ALLEN ADJUSTMENT AT BODY

INLAYS - DOT AND OR BLOCKS WITH BINDING

NUT - BONE - WIDTH 44.5mm

FRET WIRE - BS-DHP-2295 (2.2mm x 0.9mm)

FRETS NO. - 20

SCALE - 34

PICKUPS - 1 - P STYLE SPILT HUMBUCKER

PICKGUARD - WHITE

CIRCUIT - NONE

CONTROLS - VOL/TONE

POTS - 2 - CTS STYLE 250K

KNOBS - KNURLED CHROME

SWITCH – NONE

HARDWARE COLOUR - CHROME

BRIDGE - 4 STRING THROUGH BRIDGE STRINGING ONLY

TUNERS - HIPSHOT LICENSED - ULTRA-LTE CHROME

STRINGS - HIGH QUALITY - STAINLESS STEEL ROUNDWOUND .045-.105

STRING RETAINER - STRING TREE

STRAPS - DUAL DESIGN

WEIGHTS - 3.5KG - 7.7LBS

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - SOUTH KOREA

Dan Lakin Luthier/bass aficionado and Mark Gooday, friends for many years have pooled skills, resources and passion for Bass with a line of co-designed Dan Lakin and Ashdown Engineered manufactured Bass guitars, to start it was just going to be one bass but as you can imagine things got a little carried away and we opted to go all out with an impressive range of instruments.

Close up of the rosewood silver Ashdown the arc

Dan’s passion sees him making basses in Chicago to order and totally USA built. Basses built to order are one thing but getting a brand out there as he had in the past was not of interest to him.

Close up of the back of the head on the Ashdown the arc

So with Dan in tow Ashdown is taking up that mantra for him as having made basses before and always wishing to do so again, a Chance meeting in Chicago Music Exchange on a road trip for Mark saw the seeds of interest sown.

Close up of the back of the body on the Ashdown the arc

Months later those seeds come to reality...

Close up of the front of the body on the rosewood silver Ashdown the arc

Originally our necks were going to be finished with polymerized low-sheen tung oil. This product became increasingly difficult to source. Birchwood-Casey Tru-Oil brand gun stock oil turned out to be the best substitute product to obtain the classic feel of our bass neck.