Ashdown Engineering

The Low Rider

£899.00

THE LOW RIDER CO-DESIGNED WITH DAN LAKIN

Based on a friend of ours who’s passion for the perfect instrument lead to a number of incarnations of something similar to what you see here. We would like to think he would have liked our take on his classic.

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 HUMBUCKERS

PICKGUARD -
WHITE

CIRCUIT -
NONE

CONTROLS –
VOL/VOL/TONE

POTS -
3 - CTS STYLE 250K

KNOBS –
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 -
4KG - 8.8LBS

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - SOUTH KOREA
Dan Lakin and Mark Gooday
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 pickups on the red maple low rider
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 rosewood low rider in silver
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 blue lowrider
Months later those seeds come to reality...
Close up of the tuning head on the low rider
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.
Low rider black head
Low rider red head
Low rider blue head
Low rider silver head
low rider white head

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