What Is "Bass Alder"?

[5StringBlues]

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[Dave Leighton]

Yes. Basswood is linden.

I live in Lynden! Oh, wait. Never mind...

 

[JACKSON JS1XM]

Since there are several species of Alder, all they're doing is trying to delineate that it's the Alder that is mist widely used for guitar bodies, which is Red/Pacific Alder. Which would explain why Fender switched to & uses Alder, they're California based company & sourcing the wood locally makes more sense to build instruments from.

 

[Lowbrow]

That is one cool looking Jazz even to my eyes, and I don’t like ‘em normally.

 

[2tonic]

Did some digging to see if I could figure this out, but haven’t had any luck finding any solid info for ya. Guess I’ve just been looking in alder wrong places.

What you did there.....

I saw it.......


Then I looked away.......


On purpose.

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

Neither. "Bass Alder" is a type of hardwood located near bodies of water by a species of perch specially trained to identify trees with resonant tone woods. If the fish swims to and rests by a given alder tree its wood will be suitable for electric bass manufacture. The idea originally came from the military who have had success training marine mammals for strategic purposes. Fish, however, are too stupid for such work, and the trained perch are only of use in locating hardwood of the requisite commercial standards. Note that the perch's abilities are limited; they are unable to detect wood suitable for six-stringed electric or acoustic guitars.

Unless you consider following the Harry pertch, whose unerring sense of precision finds wood stable enough for microtonal tunings.

 

[IamGroot]

Neither. "Bass Alder" is a type of hardwood located near bodies of water by a species of perch specially trained to identify trees with resonant tone woods. If the fish swims to and rests by a given alder tree its wood will be suitable for electric bass manufacture. The idea originally came from the military who have had success training marine mammals for strategic purposes. Fish, however, are too stupid for such work, and the trained perch are only of use in locating hardwood of the requisite commercial standards. Note that the perch's abilities are limited; they are unable to detect wood suitable for six-stringed electric or acoustic guitars.

My dog can pick out tonewoods, which he marks for Fender.

 

[B-Mac]

I've been looking at some Custom Shop Jazz Basses, and I'm seeing "bass alder" referred to for the body wood. Since there is such a thing as "basswood," I'm wondering if this is some kind of combination of basswood and alder. Or are they suggesting that the body on these basses is made of a type of alder that is particularly suited for the bass instrument?

Setting aside all the jokes here, some of which are downright hysterical, there is no 'Bass Alder'
Where ever you saw this there probably should have been a colon between the two words like this 'Bass : Alder'
You searched for alder - The Wood Database

 

[pie_man_25]

I would assume it's either bad translation (Chinglish?) or marketing. Chances are whoever wrote that either - doesn't know what word to translate their woods into, doesn't know what wood their stuff is made of, knows that their stuff is made of "whatever was cheaper that day," or some mix of it all.

 

[Thumpin6string]

Bass alder resonates at a lower frequency than guitar alder. If they somehow get switched, the tone will be terrible.

 

[micguy]

There are several types of bass alder. There’s striped bass alder, largemouth bass alder, smallmouth bass alder, and a few others. Experts disagree on which makes the best bass guitar. The discussions can get heated.

 

[Ric5]

Bass Alder comes from the same place as Corinthian Leather

 

[Blue Moose]

Bass perch have always been considered bottom feeders.

 

[red_rhino]

Pfffft! Perch? Don’t be ridiculous. Obviously bass are a better suited species of fish for this purpose.

(And I’m a little disappointed in all of for not beating me to this. Shameful, actually.)

 

[Killing Floor]

30 species of alder. Almost all basses are made of wood for bass. Sounds like something I’d say if I worked in the marketing department. Well done.

 

[LowRick]

it's kinda like the "Elder Wand" in the later Harry Potter books. And results also depend on the user

 

[iiipopes]

Neither. "Bass Alder" is a type of hardwood located near bodies of water by a species of perch specially trained to identify trees with resonant tone woods. If the fish swims to and rests by a given alder tree its wood will be suitable for electric bass manufacture. The idea originally came from the military who have had success training marine mammals for strategic purposes. Fish, however, are too stupid for such work, and the trained perch are only of use in locating hardwood of the requisite commercial standards. Note that the perch's abilities are limited; they are unable to detect wood suitable for six-stringed electric or acoustic guitars.

Johnny Morris is trying to figure out how to get them into his Wonders of Wildlife.

 

[Killing Floor]

Neither. "Bass Alder" is a type of hardwood located near bodies of water by a species of perch specially trained to identify trees with resonant tone woods. If the fish swims to and rests by a given alder tree its wood will be suitable for electric bass manufacture. The idea originally came from the military who have had success training marine mammals for strategic purposes. Fish, however, are too stupid for such work, and the trained perch are only of use in locating hardwood of the requisite commercial standards. Note that the perch's abilities are limited; they are unable to detect wood suitable for six-stringed electric or acoustic guitars.

Science!

You know where they train the perch?

 

[BarfanyShart]

I always wondered what "Box Elder" meant.

 

[5StringBlues]

Science!

You know where they train the perch?

school