This bass is one groovy turtle.
(Yes, there is a video below where you can hear this bass.)
Bulder Stasa Puskaric writes:
In the summer of 1998 I saw my friend’s Warwick bass and I got the drive to build one by myself. At that time I was reading a lot about Stradivari family, Leonardo daVinci and woodworking techniques used till 16th Century. I bought the wood in Vienna in the store with wood for musical instruments dried more than 9 years in the air. I picked the wood as Stradivari would for his violins. Based on how it sounds. I decided to work with the combination of curly maple, bubinga and olive woods. I used old forgotten techniques of gluing wood (using a home built press), and freehand techniques to shape the guitar. No machines used. Also no synthetic compounds were used (as lacquers, varnish). I ended up building two guitars, the Turtle and the Pecten jacobeus. The Turtle has piezo pickups in the bridge plus EMG soap bar humbucker pickup with a custom built active electronic system. It has only two knobs, volume and push – pull mid range booster. The frets are inlay-ed with mother of pearl hand made turtles in various sizes.
Well done!
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After watching midway thru video, im wondering how he got the neck and strings to curve upward
Nice job and excellent skills.
This may be one of the coolest basses I have ever seen. Love it!
Those are some nice beefy looking tuning machines, but this thing looks next to impossible to play sitting down. Cool fretless tone.
Nice design. Love the turtle! It looks like the electronics cover is not flush, hard to see clearly though. Congrats on the old school approach.
Are the piezo pickups the reason the percussive thumb pops are so enhanced that the tone of the notes can barely be heard?
Nice design. Love the turtle! It looks like the electronics cover is not flush, hard to see clearly though. Congrats on the old school approach.
Are the piezo pickups the reason the percussive thumb pops are so enhanced that the tone of the notes can barely be heard starting about 1:45?
Sound from the bass is picked up by camera mic, not from amp DI, so I think that’s the reason you can’t hear the notes properly. You can hear “jacob shell” fretless bass better on this link, from the studio recording of my band Boa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7WAVCgVRw (thumb style), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0lBjkXEQRw (finger style).
Could use a tortoiseshell tortoiseshell 🙂