HASAKI BASS “QUATTRO”
Ten years after the launch of the first Di Donato Guitars Hasaki model, a bass guitar version is finally available, featuring the same operating principle and adapted design.
As with the guitar, the bass uses aluminum to create a sort of backbone onto which, at four well-defined points, the instrument’s soundboard is connected. This is completely independent of the neck, pickups, and electronics module. The only element that touches the soundboard is the bridge, which transfers the string vibrations directly to the soundboard.
The bridge is made from a single piece of aluminum to maximize vibrations, and the string height is adjustable via a mechanism located inside the neck-body connection that allows the neck to move up and down, thus varying the instrument’s action.
A distinctive feature of this model is the headstock covered in a special fabric handcrafted by the Venetian manufacturer Fortuny, specifically the “Moresco” design created by founder Mariano Fortuny over a hundred years ago.
The same pattern was then reproduced, stylized, on the body of the instrument, creating the main lines of the design with gold leaf.
Each pickup is completely hand wound by Enrico Di Donato himself, after the acoustic parts of the bass are completed and assembled.
Every single screw (all stainless steel), is polished and hand finished and, in this model, thermotreated to give it an unusal finish.
TECHNICAL FEATURES
Body: Italian Spruce
Neck: italian flame walnut
Fingerboard: pauferro
Frets: 22 stainless steel
Scale: 30”
Aluminum: gold plated
Pickups: 2 single coils custom Di Donato’s
Controls: 1 Vol, 1 blend
Switch: 3 pos. Series, Parallel, “Motown” sound
Weight:3,5kg
Figure 1: Hasaki Front
Figure 2: Hasaki Back
Figure 3: Detail of the neck adjusting system
Figure 4: Controls
Figure 5: detail of the pickup
Figure 6: Detail of the headstock
ABOUT
Di Donato Guitars was established many years ago as a workshop of bowed instruments near Venice, Italy. Great passion for legendary Guitarists and the stifling rigidity in following the “Ancient Mith” of classical lutherie, brought the concept of new instruments free of every restriction without any limitation of shapes and materials, coupling wood with aluminum, which is already used for its tonal properties. Every single guitar is one of a kind in which every part fits with others, from pickups to knobs and is crafted to answer to the personal desires and needs of each guitarist.
