{"id":53,"date":"2012-01-25T22:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/guitar\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2012-02-25T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T06:35:24","slug":"1998-dean-razor-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/guitar\/basses\/1998-dean-razor-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Razor 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Year:<\/strong> 1998
\nFinish:<\/strong> Metallic Charcoal, Cranberry
\nOrigin:<\/strong> Korea
\nAcquired:<\/strong> 2001 (Cranberry) and 2003 (Charcoal)
\nMods:<\/strong> New nut, Schaller straplocks, Q-Parts knobs
\nStill owned:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n

The Story:<\/strong>
\nKat found her pink bass in a consignment shop down in Redwood City and instantly fell for its comfort and light strings. I liked it but she wouldn\u2019t let me \u201cimprove\u201d it, so I picked up matching one in manly gray from eBay and that I hotrodded to my heart\u2019s content. Both were fun to play with really light strings. The Razor 1 was an entry-level bass, so I had Greg install Bill Lawrence pickups and flatwound strings on mine, so it would sound different. He also pried off the cheap-feeling bullet knobs, which drove me nuts, and I got some Q-Parts.<\/p>\n

I played my one and only public gig as a bassist with the Razor. When I sold the bass as part of a purge, I wound up keeping the Q-Parts knobs and put three orphan chrome knobs on it instead. They all looked similar but felt different to the touch, so I called it a special feature for the bassist who needed to know which knob was which on a dark stage. Meanwhile, the cranberry\/pink one was sold to a friend, who gave it to a family member as a gift.<\/p>\n