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The feature bass this week has a neck made of 13 different parts (wow!)
Clément from D’ARCO Basses & Guitars writes:
I’m a new french luthier and I come to present one of my model, the D’ARCO Shakti 5 string bass. It’s a 35″ with 26 fret.
Body woods: lacewood, purpleheart, wenge and flamed maple
Neck woods: 13 parts with flamed maple, wenge and bubinga/wenge veneer
Fretboard: premium macassar ebony
The neck has a dual action truss-rod with 2 carbon fiber rods reinforcement.
Aluminium and brass D’ARCO logo, bronze bell zero fret, gloss in the dark dot.
Hipshot headless bridge with 19mm string spacing, brass D’ARCO string lock.
Aguilar DCB pickups and Bartolini NTMB-918F with volume with actif/passif, blend, bass, mid, treeble ans mid frequency switch. Magnetised preamp and battery cover.
I hope that you will like it.
Thank’s and best regards.
Well done!
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Wow and double wow!! Beautiful work and design. I would think you will be getting some request to build one of your beauties in the near future. Ciao, Doc
Nice design and neat headless treatment. I usually don’t like these but this is an excellent execution
Awesome. I really like it.
Would’ve liked to hear what she sounds like…. but I have to admit , your work is flawless. The bass is Beautiful. In the near future , I’d love to have you build one for me. I’d have you install different electronics. My choice would be the Delano quad-coils (the oval pickups), and a Glockenklang preamp. I look forward to working with you.
WOW!!!!!!!!!! Amazing looking bass!!! I would like to hear what tones this work of art puts out! Again, WOW!!!!!!!!!
By far…..The absolute BEST axe I’ve seen on the site yet…..Masterful job!!!
BIG TIME NICE!!
Love to hear what it sounds like. Any chance you could post a youtube video or soundcloud file?
Beautiful!! Very original design. Would love to hear a sample of it.
That is astoundingly lovely work! Lacewood is my absolute favorite tonewood of all time. I wish you much success and many great builds!
Wow, in my opinion by far the best bass on the site so far!
I love the headless design as it has to be so well balanced. I also like the wood combo and the electronics are perfect IMHO…
I’d like one with 17mm string spacing, please
Phenomenal!
Beautiful design, excellent choice of woods and craftsmanship is exquisite. Masterful work.
That’s cooler than Santa Claus….baby.
Beautiful craftsmanship. Love the lacewood/purpleheart mix and a pretty cool ‘dragon’-esk gestalt but I can imagine resting the bass on ones knee seated might not be so comfortable due to the purple-heart fins there. Visually it looks super cool but functionally I could imagine it being an issue, at least in that location.
How Much for it..it’s amazing..please reply..very interested ..as are a few on this feed..;8-)