{"id":567,"date":"2016-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=567"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:54","slug":"bass-of-the-week-ajr-guitars-singlecut-bass","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-ajr-guitars-singlecut-bass","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: AJR Guitars Singlecut Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friend Christopher Kerton sent in pics of his bass for us to check out, and it almost knocked me out. The custom singlecut bass by AJR Guitars is a beauty to begin with, but digging into the details got me even more excited.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, this bass was 100% customisable. Down to how I wanted the pickup covers to look, and the headstock shape,\u201d Kerton wrote. Near the top of his list of wants was for it to be lightweight, so the bass features a chambered alder body topped with a stunning piece of camphor. Total weight? Seven pounds, eight ounces.<\/p>\n

Its mahogany neck is accented with a center strip of walnut and was profiled to feel similar to his existing Warwick Streamer. The bassist also opted for a dark, clean, AAA grade ebony for the fretboard with no fret markers. The leftover ebony from making the fingerboard was combined with the leftover camphor to make the pickup covers, tying the design together in a unique way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fitted with a P\/J pickup configuration by DiMarzio, which is matched to a Seymour Duncan 2-band EQ. Other features include a Hipshot Drop D-tuner and a Warwick Just-a-Nut.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt plays like a dream, with a myriad of tonal options at your fingertip,\u201d Kerton says.<\/p>\n

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Our friend Christopher Kerton sent in pics of his bass for us to check out, and it almost knocked me out. The custom singlecut bass by AJR Guitars is a beauty to begin with, but\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1871,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-567","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/567","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\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}