{"id":484,"date":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=484"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:51","slug":"bass-of-the-week-moonshine-custom-guitars-rat-rod-j-bass","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-moonshine-custom-guitars-rat-rod-j-bass","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Moonshine Custom Guitars Rat Rod J Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moonshine<\/p>\n

The Daily Funk Club\u2019s Andy Irvine<\/strong> is a guy who knows what he wants in a bass. That\u2019s why he reached out to Rick Wilson of Moonshine Guitars with some specifics in mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe contacted me after seeing pics of my bass, he was looking for the feel of a well-played early 60\u2019s Jazz as with the vintage look as well but taking it even further,\u201d Wilson says. \u201cAndy, who\u2019s an amazing bass player as well as a really nice guy, wanted an over the top finish; he dug the foam green over sunburst and wanted one that\u2019s heavily relic\u2019d like mine. he had seen some of my builds with reversed headstocks (apparently another one of those love it or hate it styles), he\u2019s a big fan of them so we went with a left-handed headstock.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bass, dubbed the Rat Rod J Bass, was built with two-piece alder body, a one-piece flat sawn maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard with clay face dot inlays. \u201cAndy supplied the Bartolini single coil pickups and an early model 2-band Bartolini preamp,\u201d Wilson adds. \u201cI\u2019m a huge fan of Bartolini, I\u2019m old school enough that to me the standard when it comes to active bass tone is an early model Tobias bass with Bartolini soapbar pickups and that killer 3-band preamp.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Photos by William Ritter<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n

Moonshine Custom Guitars Rat Rod J Bass Features:<\/h2>\n
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The Daily Funk Club\u2019s Andy Irvine is a guy who knows what he wants in a bass. That\u2019s why he reached out to Rick Wilson of Moonshine Guitars with some specifics in mind. \u201cHe contacted\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1697,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-484","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/484","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\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}