Bass of the Week: Daddy Mojo Rosetta Archtop Bass with Adjustable Neck and Short-Scale Design
This week, we’re checking out another groovy bass from Daddy Mojo Instruments. The Rosetta archtop bass is a lightweight build with a short 30-inch scale for a “parlor-sized instrument,” builder Lenny P. Robert tells us. It has the company’s Rosetta adjustable neck system, which is a modern take on the Stauffer Romantic parlor neck joint.
“The original guitars actually had a key embedded in the heel that allowed you to change the neck angle as well as the string height on the fly,” he says. “Mine comes with an Allen key but essentially functions in the same way – It’s extremely practical and the neck completely disassembles if need be.”
Robert built the bass with a highly figured walnut body, a torrefied maple neck, and an ebony fretboard. Those chocolatey features are complemented by its Ivoroid binding and pickguard, as well as the fingerboard inlays, which are card suits and the customer’s initials.
Central to the bass’s sound are a pair of Curtis Novak H22 Gold Foil pickups, which are selected with a pickup switch. Hardware includes an ebony floating bridge and Hipshot Ultralite tuners.
Daddy Mojo Stringed Instruments Rosetta Archtop Bass Specs:
| Construction: | Rosetta Adjustable Neck System |
| Scale: | 30″ |
| Body: | Figured Walnut |
| Neck: | Torrified Maple |
| Fingerboard: | Ebony |
| Frets: | 22 |
| Inlays: | Card Suit and Customer Initials |
| Pickups: | Curtis Novak H22 Gold Foil |
| Controls: | Volume, Tone, Pickup Switch |
| Bridge: | Ebony Floating Bridge |
| Tuners: | Hipshot Ultralite |
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This is a very nice retro looking instrument. I bet it’s a lot of fun to play.
I’ll bet that bass costs a shed-load of money .
Are these basses available – and at what price? If unavailablr, this is nothing but a trade.
Is it possible to buy one of these bases?