There should be no mystery as to where the KD Basses Lava - River of Blood got its name. Kostadin Dimitrov talks of the unusual grain pattern, where combined with the beautiful stain creates the impression of molten, plastic flow. The visual impact alone should provide inspiration enough to propel your bass playing to a [...]
The Earthquake is probably the most modest of the new line of limited edition KD Basses. In truth, the word modest does not even belong in the vocabulary of Bulgarian guitar builder Kostadin Dimitrov. Totally hand made with an old world approach combining precise functionality with artistry equal to the finest
I encourage you to [...]
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 [...]