This all mahogany bass is Hagstrom’s version of the Les Paul bass by Gibson. The neck is fairly narrow with a flat fretboard radius. This is a comfortable axe to move around quickly on, even with the rounded profile neck back. The two humbuckers provide a wide range of nice clean tones. [...]
Just like the other Hagstrom basses with short scale necks, their DeLuxe model is a happy kick in the pants to play. If you wear a slippery guitar strap you had better maintain a death grip, this is the most neck heavy of the Hag basses I’ve played.
The tones have a [...]
It’s not enough to have JUST a plastic pickguard. Hagstrom pegged everyone’s cheeze-meter when they designed their pickguard as an integral piece of the Hagstrom I series axes. Many minds were blown when the company from Sweden created this model using plastic for the entire top of the body.
Here’s the funny thing. Even though [...]