The feature bass this week looks like a long scale but is actually a short scale.
Owner Scott Young writes:
This beauty was built by the late David Minnieweather. David’s life’s passion was bass, both as a maker and an accomplished player – although he would say he just noodled. He started making bass guitars at middle school where his teacher instilled the concept of starting with a centerline, and of not building until it looked right on paper. David was largely self-taught, learning bit by bit from others’ advise and his own work.
This is an active electronic short scale bass. It plays like a guitar. Im not sure of the origins of the wood.
Well done!
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that is super figure on the body, I also like the his and hers look of the fingerboard. good work.
Very Alembic looking. Are the switches for LED markers. Or series/parallel maybe? He clearly picked up the necessary information to be a luthier. I’d love to hear how the short scale sounds..
I owned two Minnieweather…a one-off really cool zebra wood 4-string and the prototype 8-string to a model he had. Really unusual, original designs.