Bass of the Week: BilT Guitars Rele Bass
This week we’re checking out the Rele Bass by BilT Guitars. Oozing with retro charm, the short-scale bass has tons of customizable features from your choice of woods to pickups to fingerboard inlays to hardware.
Its standard specs include a poplar body in a solid body color with sixteen options. Its maple neck can be upgraded to walnut, mahogany, or all the way up to a roasted Birdseye maple. BilT offers a Mustang/Musicmaster pickup from Curtis Novak, but you can also choose a J-Bass, P-bass, or humbucker set from various builders: Lollar, Fralin, TV Jones, Seymour Duncan, or Novak. You can also opt for additional circuitry like a Rhythm Circuit, a Hi-Lo circuit, or a 2-band EQ.
Finally, they offer Hipshot Ultralite or Gotoh Reso-Lite tuners and either a Stang style or Kluson bridge.
BilT Guitars Rele Bass Standard Photo Gallery:BilT Guitars Rele Bass Standard Specs:
| Scale: | 30″ |
| Body: | Poplar |
| Neck: | Maple |
| Fingerboard: | Rosewood |
| Frets: | 19 |
| Inlays: | Clay Dot |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5″ |
| Neck Profile: | Standard Medium “C” |
| Fret Wire: | Vintage |
| Pickup: | Novak Mustang/Musicmaster |
| Controls: | Volume, Tone |
| Bridge: | Stang Style 4-string, Through Body |
| Tuners: | Hipshot Ultralite |
| Knobs: | Black Mustang Knobs |
| Finish: | Lo-Gloss Nitro |
| Colors: | Black, Daphne Blue, Competition Orange, Smoke Green, Olympic White, Surf Green, Tahitian Coral, Banana Yellow, Arctic White, Seafoam Green, Fiesta Red, Caddy Green, Shell Pink, Sonic Blue, Dakota Red, Olive Drab |
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