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[Bass of the week] Minnieweather Heartwood Custom

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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3 thoughts on “[Bass of the week] Minnieweather Heartwood Custom”

  1. 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..

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  2. 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.

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