Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood front black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood back black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood left black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood right black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rose wood front white

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood back white

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood left white

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood right white

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood front blue

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood back blue

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood right blue

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood left blue

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood front red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood back red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood right red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood left red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple front black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple back black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple right black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple left black

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood front gold

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood back gold

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood right gold

Ashdown the grail bass guitar rosewood left gold

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple front red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple back red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple left red

Ashdown the grail bass guitar maple right red

Ashdown Engineering

The Grail

Name: The Grail
Brand: Ashdown Engineering
Price: 1099.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£1,099.00

THE GRAIL CO-DESIGNED WITH DAN LAKIN

We had a 1962 Candy Apple Red bass that was sadly stolen from the Bass Center in Wapping, the neck however has always been a favourite and over the years we have used it in various forms from T-Basses to Lodestones. This one has a much more classic aesthetic and little less out there in terms of design. We love it and think you will to, with its oiled neck and premium hardware this instrument is perfect. A final set up and quality control takes place in the UK before hitting the road. Our basses only further offer an insight into our passion for bass.

Using Hipshot Tuners, Wilkinson Bridges these basses have been made using the best possible materials for professional use on the road, at home or in the studio the Ashdown range of basses have been built to stand the test of time.

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 38mm

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

FRETS NO. - 20

SCALE - 34

PICKUPS - 2 -J STYLE SINGLE COIL

PICKGUARD - WHITE

CIRCUIT - NONE

CONTROLS – VOL/VOL/TONE

POTS - 3 - CTS STYLE 250K

KNOBS – JBASS STYLE

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 - 3.8KG - 8.3LBS

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.

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.

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.

Months later those seeds come to reality...

Close up of the back of the silver grail body

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.