{"id":203,"date":"2023-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=203"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:41","slug":"bass-of-the-week-bird-on-a-wire-38-sil-nora","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-bird-on-a-wire-38-sil-nora","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Bird on a Wire #38 \u201cSil Nora\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Luthier Tom Molstad of Bird on a Wire Stringed Instruments recently posted photos of his first-ever bass build, and by the looks of it, he\u2019s off to a great start. \u201cSil Nora\u201d is a six-string, multi-scale bass with a rich combination of colors thanks to its mahogany neck, rosewood top, and ebony fingerboard. <\/p>\n

Molstad used Gold Mother of Pearl for the fret markers with a sweet bass clef inlay at the 12th fret. For electronics, he fit the Sil Nora with a pair of Nordstrand Zen Blade 6 pickups separated by a finger ramp. Each pickup has a three-way switch to toggle between parallel, single coil, and series operation. Its four knobs are Volume (with push\/pull for active\/passive), Blend, Bass, and Treble. <\/p>\n

Hardware includes a Babicz FCH-1 bridge and Schaller M4-90 tuners. <\/p>\n

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Luthier Tom Molstad of Bird on a Wire Stringed Instruments recently posted photos of his first-ever bass build, and by the looks of it, he\u2019s off to a great start. \u201cSil Nora\u201d is a six-string,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1109,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-203","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}