See Oscar Prat’s business listing here Oscar is a fourth-generation antique dealer who studied under Stephen Higgins to become the builder he is today; he has always been involved with woodworking in one way or another, and turned his passions towards bass building. Because of that, he now builds bass instruments that are some of … Read more
New for 2014 from Fender comes the Proto Precision Bass. As said in the video below, the “Pro” series has been renamed to “Proto” because it always meant “Prototype” and not “Professional.” It is typical that Fender will purposely stray away from tradition and try out new and different things with Proto series instruments, and … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s BotW comes from John Kaster (also the builder) who wanted to create a small, super-light instrument, and nailed it! John writes: The idea for this bass was to build a small body super-light weight bass. The only way to make a super-light bass is … Read more
NAMM show 14 is less than two weeks away, and a few of you who read this might be going. Before you go, you should go to NAMM’s web site and check out their Interactive Floor Plan. Now I’ll be honest here, the interactive floor plan requires a relatively fast computer, probably won’t work on … Read more
This week’s BotW was built by JCR Luthier Bass & Guitars for Rico Pérez. Rico writes: Hello, I’m Jesús Rico Pérez, a bass player of Benalmádena, Spain. I have long been observed to JCR Luthier, a great professional and a nice guy, until I decided for him to fabricate the bass I wanted. He gave … Read more
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Joe Meckley had his bass, “Shirley B”, built by BA Ferguson Guitars. Joe wanted a 6-string P/J bass built, and what he received was exactly what he wanted! Joe writes: Last year I had a custom B.A. Ferguson (Hartsville SC) six string bass made and think it may be something you’d be interested in for … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s BotW comes from builder Dan Lenz, with a build where it was attempted to get as many features possible into a single instrument (within reason, of course). Dan writes, The Sonic Wave Bass was inspired from long conversations about bass building with a friend. … Read more
See Chris Stambaugh’s business listing here Builder Chris Stambaugh puts together some pretty amazing stuff. Originally trained in industrial design, he took his skills to guitar building and has basically been there ever since. We interviewed Chris to get insight on how he got started, what he draws inspiration from, and learn from him what … Read more
A 5-string bass obviously has an odd number of tuners, so it’s not exactly easy to get symmetry on the pegboard as far as how to place tuners are concerned. Fender still does make 5-string models with all five tuners “on top”, inline style. However, the problem with doing that is that on full (meaning … Read more
