Lightweight at 3.27kg

Featuring a remarkable resonance and vibration of Paulownia body wood, this bass guitar offers a rounded attack feel and smooth sound. It is equipped with a high-output ceramic pickup set, ensuring versatility across various genres, and comes at a reasonable price.

Paulownia Body Wood

The J-Bass body shape, beloved by many musicians for its contoured and comfortable design, especially around areas like the armrest, is achieved through the distinctive curves of the body. Paulownia wood, a tonewood gaining attention from custom guitar brands, falls between basswood and alder in character. It boasts outstanding resonance, smooth tonal qualities, and a significant advantage in being exceptionally lightweight.

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Body Wood and Sound

Paulownia wood produces a smooth, rounded attack feel and a soft sound, resonating deeply. Some even liken its sound to Swamp Ash. It delivers a flat sound from the low to high range, making it advantageous for covering various genres.

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Slim C-shape Maple Neck

The well-seasoned hard maple neck enhances playability and reliability significantly. It features a slim C-shaped neck profile, ensuring comfortable playability even for individuals with smaller hands. With a matte finish, it offers a smooth playing experience, allowing for effortless position changes and slides.

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Semi-Rounded Neck Joint

The robust 4-point bolt-on neck joint ensures extended sustain, similar to set neck joints, as proven through various experiments. Bolt-on necks offer advantages in repairs and maintenance due to their separable nature. The semi-rounded neck joint plate and smooth curved edges facilitate easy playing around the high positions (18~22 frets).

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Headstock

Incorporating a newly designed decal Gopherwood logo, the PPS nut enhances sustain and provides clear resonance due to its characteristics of crystallinity, high-temperature resistance, and heat insensitivity. Truss rod adjustment allows for correcting neck curvature.

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Tuning Machines

Equipped with vintage-type tuning machines with a 21:1 gear ratio, ensuring precise tuning and minimizing backlash for stable tuning maintenance.

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Fretboard

The 9.5-inch (241mm) radius maple or purple heart fretboard features 20 medium jumbo frets securely installed and a 34-inch (864mm) scale length. The dense and full-bodied sound due to the characteristics of purple heart wood provides excellent tonal qualities.

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JJ Pickup Set

Utilizing ceramic magnets mixed with iron oxide, barium carbonate, strontium, and ceramic, known as ceramic magnets, the JJ pickup set offers a textured sound. It complements the rough and sharp ceramic pickups with the smooth tonal qualities of Paulownia wood, creating a rich sound.

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Pickup Volumes and Tone Control

By adjusting the neck pickup volume, bridge pickup volume, and tone knob, you can achieve a wide range of tones, from sharp and piercing to smooth and round. The two single pickups with opposite phases partially cancel out the 60Hz noise when their volumes are equal.

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Vintage Type Bridge

Equipped with a 4-saddle vintage-type bridge, commonly used in jazz bass guitars. Due to the intricate settings required for precise playability in jazz basses, it allows adjustments in curvature, pickup spacing, and pitch, providing a reliable and stable bridge for the player’s preferences.

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15mm Padded Gigbag

The durable 15mm padding provides excellent protection for the bass guitar. Thick pads are added to prevent damage to the guitar’s bottom due to strap pin impact when placed vertically on the floor. It includes a neck pillow for neck protection and fixation. Areas of contact with metal parts such as strings, tuning machines, and bridges are reinforced with sturdy fabric to prevent wear due to friction.

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J-classic II
Specifications

-Body-

Body Material: Paulownia
Body Shape: Gopherwood J-Bass
Finish: Gloss
Body Finish: Floral White, Jet Black,Uranus Blue and Scarlet

-NECK-

Neck Material: Maple
Neck Finish: Satin
Neck Shape: Slim C-shape
Scale Length: 34″ (864 mm)
Fingerboard Material: Purpleheart
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5″ (241 mm)
Number of Frets: 20
Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
Nut Material: PPS
Nut Width: 1.5″ (38.1 mm)
Position Inlays: White Dot
Truss Rod: Head Adjust

-Electronics-

Bridge Pickup: GW-2B Ceramic Single-Coil
Neck Pickup: GW-2B Ceramic Single-Coil
Controls: Neck Pickup Volume, Bridge Pickup Volume and Master Tone
Configuration: SS

-Hardwares-

Bridge: 4-Saddle Vintage Style
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
Pickguard: 3-Ply Black or White
Control Knobs: Chrome
Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Semi Round
Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.045-.105 Gauges)
Gigbag: 15mm Foam Case