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This week’s Bass Of The Week from Mark is a Sei 7-string in what they call an “offset flamboyant” shape. This instrument screams pure luxury in every way, from the woods to the hardware to the light-up LED side markers and everything in between. As you’ll read in Mark’s story below, it took a year … Read more
This week’s Bass of the Week is a Les Paul 5-string which Guillermo Armenteros (the owner) calls the “Armenteros Les Paul 5”. Here’s the story on the bass according to the owner: The Bass is called the Armenteros Les Paul 5 and my second 5 string commissioned build from a local luthier and friend in … Read more
This week’s BotW comes from Don, who sent us photos of his pristine-clean ’58 P-Bass. Don writes: This P-Bass, build date 11-58, came to me in the late 60’s with basically no finish. I continued to strip her down to bare wood. Completely removed all components, cleaned them as best I could, keeping all of … Read more
This week’s feature bass is a fretless offering with very meticulous attention to detail, the Über -M Aphrodite. A start-to-finish photo album of the build is here, but here are a few highlights: Above: Making an “M” inlay Above: The cavity cover is made to match the back Above: The finished back, sanded to show … Read more
“This Wilkat Headless Beatle Bass (34″ scale) was fitted with the Bartolini pickups, controls and knobs supplied by Best Bass Gear and the client is very happy.”
This week’s Bass of the Week comes from Wayne Stewart. I built this from scratch. It is burled redwood, maple and mahogany. I had Carvin build the neck to my specs as it is a through neck design. The bass is totally passive with custom wiring to have volume on both pickup with a master … Read more
“I wanted to share with you my last creation, a headless 5 string bass that I designed 15 years ago and finally built this summer.”
“Here’s one of my own creations that I thought you might enjoy peeking at – it’s my ‘ThunderStick’ scratch-built 8-string”
Over the last few months we’ve had some incredible basses submitted for Bass of the Week. Let’s take a look back at some of our favorites.
