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Description
The Guild Jack Casady Custom Flying V Bass is a striking blend of vintage aesthetics and modern craftsmanship, offering bassists a unique tonal palette and unparalleled playability. This electric bass guitar, crafted with meticulous attention to detail, channels the spirit of rock and roll with its iconic Flying V shape, ensuring you’ll stand out on any stage. Designed in collaboration with legendary bassist Jack Casady, this instrument delivers a diverse range of tones courtesy of its custom electronics and pickup configuration.
The mahogany body provides a warm, resonant foundation, while the maple neck offers smooth, fast action ideal for any playing style. The bass features a rosewood fingerboard that complements the overall tonal richness and sustain. Whether you’re laying down solid grooves or taking an adventurous solo, the Guild Jack Casady Custom Flying V Bass ensures your sound is both robust and dynamic. Musicians will appreciate the attention to detail, from the sturdy hardware to the sleek finish, which contributes to both the instrument's aesthetics and its reliable performance.
Key Features:
- Collaboration with legendary bassist Jack Casady
- Iconic Flying V body shape
- Custom electronics for a wide range of tonal options
- Mahogany body with a maple neck and rosewood fingerboard
- Designed for enhanced playability and comfort
- High-quality hardware for increased durability and tuning stability
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The custom bass guitar is made by Glenn Quan from a Guild Jetstar bass, and used by Jack Casady in Hot Tuna around the mid 70's. Jack Casady talks about how the bass was built by Glenn, and the sound of the instrument.. "He was playing around with V guitars and he had down there a Guild bass solid body [a Guild Jetstar] and he took that neck off and he made what he thought would be the appropriate size for a V Bass. Then he got his paint and colours together to make it what would be in a typical Guild dark maroonish red. He put two Guild pickups on it and a Badass bridge and I played that for a while. Again it was a short scale neck. Nothing like the Guild, you know it was a solid body instrument a whole different sound. There was no custom electronics or anything, stock electronics. The only thing I did as I did in the other basses, I would increase the alnico magnets in the pickups. It's a high impedance bass and it's more of a narrower sound, it's a little buzzy. It's not my favourite sound"
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