This week’s bass build was a custom piece submitted by Rudy Candia. Here is what Rudy had to say about the bass build: The Altessa Bass guitar is a 34” scale bass that has an oiled walnut body and a five piece laminate neck made of walnut with two Purple Heart stringers. The fretboard is … Read more
Steve Burke submitted this story of his bass build to share this week. Here is some of what he had to say: We just built this bass for Mr. Lenny Spickle from the band SNEW. It is a short scale (30.5″) neck-through bass. The body shape is based on the Burke Guitar “Rearview” model emphasizing … Read more
This week’s bass is a custom build order built by Diego La Porta for Nicolás Tarantini. Here is a bit about his work: My friend Diego La Porta, a bricklayer/home builder and bassist himself from Ituzaingo, a suburban area near Buenos Aires, started building his own basses about 2 years ago and became very famous … Read more
This week’s bass is a custom build by Rick over at Moonshine Guitars. He submitted this one of kind piece and here is what he had to say about it: This was the second bass that I built for this client, the first was a replica of Micheal Anthony’s Jack Daniels bass. It came out … Read more
This week’s bass is a custom build by Ademir Coelho de Souza who created his own custom instrument. Here is a bit about what he had to say of the build: This bass was inspired by the Phillip Kubicki bass Factor. It was all made with Brazilian woods: the body is marupá, the neck 5 … Read more
This week’s selection is from Anthony DiMauro. He’s been a bass player for quite a while and decided to share his experiences constructing his own custom jazz bass. Here’s his story: I have been playing six string basses for the last twenty years and currently have two. I just joined a Motown/R&B group and the … Read more
