New BC Rich Widow Bass Guitar announced. In early 2007, BC Rich announced a new (and long-awaited!) bass guitar in their catalogue of extreme and cool shaped guitars. The new WMD BC Rich Widow Bass Guitar, is now for the first time produced on a larger scale and not limited to expensive custom orders or metal rock stars with a big fat wallet. Several online guitar stores now sell the BC Rich Widow 5-string Bass. The best deal I have come across is this one: BC Rich WMD Widow 5-String Bass Guitar at InstrumentPro. Let me tell you right now – not only does it look evil and wicked….it sounds killer too! It has good action on the fretboard, a thunderous and defined bass tone, and of course true BC Rich craftsmanship. It is worth every penny.

This new model has the following features:

• Construction: neck through
• Body wood: nato (eastern mahogany)
• Body thickness: 45mm
• Top style: side beveled
• Body binding: no
• Headstock style: Widow
• Headstock color: onyx
• Headstock binding: no
• Tuners: Grover Rotomatics
• Neck wood: maple
• Back of neck: onyx
• Neck binding: no
• Fretboard: ebony
• Inlay: none
• Frets: 24 jumbo 2.9mm
• Factory strings: 45 – 130
• Scale: 35”
• Bridge / Tailpiece type: adjustable stop
• Pickups: 2 active EQ black P style
• Controls: 2 volumes and 2 tones (center detent)
• Hardware: black chrome
• Finish: painted glossy
• Color: onyx with red pinstripes on the body edges

This Widow bass looks about as close as it gets to the one used by Blackie Lawless in this classic video:

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