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:
