Good things come to those who wait. This bass was inspired by a piece of spalted maple stored for 10 years before being put to use to build the right bass.
Owner Tom LeClair writes:
This bass was conceived when Denis told me that he’d had a beautiful piece of spalted maple for 10 years waiting for the right project and how he’d always wanted to build a tele bass. The bass has a partially chambered ash body with a book matched spalted maple top and matching headstock, a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. It is passive, has a 35 inch scale, a babicz full contact bridge, Delano pickups, humbucker at the bridge, single coil at the neck, two volume & one tone knob and light weight vintage tuners, strung with Thomastik Infeld jazz bass strings. It weighs about 9 pounds, is very well balanced, has an incredible array of tones and sits very well in the genres of music I play, country, blues, contemporary Christian and originals. The satin finish is hand rubbed. Overall an incredible instrument, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to own and enjoy it.
Well done!
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Quite a beut piece of hardware you have created there brother, very nice indeed. Upon seeing the finished piece of kit my thoughts were sommat on the lines of with the right active electronic suite. (East electronics)..…..Total visual and aural perfection. Deffo.
Again mate…a beautiful piece of work.
Hi Tom, Beautiful Bass – the chambering is great and I assume creates tone and keeps weight down? You do not show a photo of the rear and I was wondering what access panel you have for the electronics ?
The chambering was put in place to help keep weight down but also to create some acoustics within the body. A bit of a leap of faith as we weren’t quite sure how it would sound but leap paid off in spades. An incredible array of tones and sustain. The 4 bolt neck connection is enhanced with the addition of two custom fitted wooden pegs inside the neck joint to achieve almost a “neck thru”. Never thought to show the back, should have. Instead of cutting one large opening to access all pots at once Denis opted for three 1 3/4″ diameter circular openings, one directly behind each pot to allow access and to minimize any further loss of body mass. It’s a great bass, will likely relegate my other 3 to long term storage. Denis is a great builder, it was a pleasure to work with him through out the process. Check out his other builds.