Beardly Customs luthier Rick Link sent us this example of his take on a rainbow style bass, and it looks like he knocked it out of the park. The bass is centered around its body, which has thirty separate pieces of wood to give a rainbow-like effect. Link used rosewood, purpleheart, wenge, flamed maple, redwood burl, blood wood, walnut, cocobolo, and walnut and maple veneers for a fantastic aesthetic.
The bass’s neck is a single piece of curly maple topped with a two-tone cocobolo fretboard. Following the theme of the body, the headstock is made of flamed maple, purpleheart, and wenge with walnut/maple/walnut veneers on its face. Link fitted the instrument with a pair of EMG Hzs wired to a single volume knob, a 3-way switch, and a coil tap switch for the middle pickup. Hardware includes a Kahler 7410 tremolo bridge and Hipshot Ultralite tuners.
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