On the Rails. . . . . . .

Westone Rail Bass.

I have two of these fascinating basses, looked for ages to find one
and then another one turned up, so I thought I would grab a spare.

Medium scale, so you can whizz up and down the board with ease,
if you are used to playing a 34" scale bass.

The neck and the two body components are made from Maple and
give it a good solid feel.

The sliding pick-up really does show how important pick-up positioning

is, and without any electronic trickery, a lot of different tones can be

eased out of this bass, simply by moving the pick-up.
Anything from sort of a Jaco bark to a Reggae dub and loads in between.

The centre component hold the pick-up, volume control and output socket.

Clever, eh??

I'm sure there are others out there that do the same thing - the Gibson

Grabber being one of them.

I also have a Quantum Bass, which is part of the family - I will come back

later with that one.

There is a great site dedicated to Westone instruments.

http://www.westone.info/

I also came across this a few months ago - some interesting reading from

a man who was very much involved with Westone.http://forum.westoneguitars.net/general-f1/westone-us-design-development-history-t971.htm

A fun thing that is a very serious instrument.

Back with some more another day.

Cheers. :)

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