{"id":694,"date":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=694"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:58","slug":"bass-of-the-week-jimmy-haslips-gabriella-rose-bass-by-wyn-guitars","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-jimmy-haslips-gabriella-rose-bass-by-wyn-guitars","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Jimmy Haslip\u2019s \u201cGabriella Rose\u201d Bass by Wyn Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The best basses come with great stories. Jimmy Haslip\u2019s six-string bass from Wyn Guitars, called \u201cGabriela Rose,\u201d is a great example. Wyn Guitars luthier Randy Fullmer recounts the whole process on his website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a luthier\u2019s dream to make an instrument for an artist with the stature and playing chops of Jimmy Haslip,\u201d Fullmer humbly states. \u201cI of course handled this assignment with complete calm and professionalism. It was basically five parts intense euphoria and eleven parts terror ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

After building a prototype in late 2008, a friend of Fullmer\u2019s put him in touch with the Yellowjackets founder over email to try it out. The meeting ended with Haslip asking him to build a bass of his own and the collaboration began.<\/p>\n

\u201cI drew up a full sized set of plans after asking him a long list of questions,\u201d the luthier explains. \u201cI took several measurements from his favorite basses. He had me make minor shape adjustments to the body I had drawn which instantly made it better. I spent hours dragging out more than a dozen different species of hardwoods from Africa, South and Central America and the U.S. and laid them out with a transparent template. He gave serious attention to every set up I made for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately the bass is built around a tapered core neck of wenge, padouk, and Eastern Rock Maple. The body\u2019s wings are built with a core of sapele, a layer of wenge, then a gorgeous piece of cocobolo for the top and back. The cocobolo is where the one-of-a-kind bass gets its name.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Haslip] selected Cocobolo, a Central America Rosewood, for the body top and back. It was some pretty wild stuff with light amber sap wood mixed with very intense red heart wood. He noticed a completely amazing shape of a rose that naturally occurred on one of the boards. He said his daughter\u2019s name was Gabriela Rose and he\u2019d like to have that rose placed front and center with her name engraved around it.\u201d The name Gabriela Rose was etched into the body by laser artist Haryn De Leon.<\/p>\n

For more on Wyn Guitars, check out their website<\/a> or our Custom Shop feature<\/a> with Fullmer.<\/p>\n

Wyn Guitars \u201cGabriella Rose\u201d Bass Photos:<\/h2>\n
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Photos by Scott Shepard Photography<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/div>\n

Wyn Guitars \u201cGabriella Rose\u201d Bass Details:<\/h2>\n
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  • Strings: 6<\/li>\n
  • Body Core: Sapele, Wenge<\/li>\n
  • Body Top: Cocobolo<\/li>\n
  • Neck: African Wenge, Padouk, Eastern Rock Maple<\/li>\n
  • Fretboard: Cocobolo<\/li>\n
  • Pickups: Bartolini<\/li>\n
  • Electronics: Bartolini<\/li>\n
  • Bridge: Hipshot<\/li>\n
  • Tuners: Hipshot<\/li>\n
  • Finish: Clear with Slight Amber Tint<\/li>\n
  • Other: \u201cGabriela Rose\u201d Etched into Body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    The best basses come with great stories. Jimmy Haslip\u2019s six-string bass from Wyn Guitars, called \u201cGabriela Rose,\u201d is a great example. Wyn Guitars luthier Randy Fullmer recounts the whole process on his website. \u201cIt\u2019s a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2075,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[107],"class_list":["post-694","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","builder-jimmy-haslip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/694","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\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}