Safran Semi Acoustic

[RonC]

I recently picked up my new Safran Semi Acoustic.

Umut Dal build it for me. This one is different compared to his "standard"semi acoustic.  I wanted the semi acoustic as a single cut. 

This was a bit of a challenge cause the semi acoustic has a single coil mounted under the fretboard (together with a piëzo in the bridge). The normal semi acoustic has a bold-on neck so the PU can me mounted on the body before attaching the neck.  With my bass the PU is glued to the bottom of the fretboard. 

It has a cedar body with a palo naranja top, maple neck with purpleheart centre stripe, ebony fretboard, bridge and tailpiece. Custom handwound PU, custom piezo in the bridge, John East MPM02 Preamp, volume & blend control in the recessed in the tailpiece. 34"scale. La Bella Deep Talking Bass 760N Black nylon tape wound string. 

It plays very smooth and sounds lovely, it sounds very "woody"and almost like an upright. Especially the blend between the magnetic and the piezo PU is gives a lot of variety in sound.  

 

Here are some pics of the building process and the end result.

 

[Clarky]

This will interest you @Happy Jackand @Silvia Bluejay

[RonC]

Here's a video a good friend of my made: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 17, 2023 by RonC

[Happy Jack]

Yup, saw all this on Facebook.

 

@RonC How much does it weigh?

 

[RonC]

I think about 3 Kg...

i'll weigh it this week to be sure!