Bass of the Week

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 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

This week’s selection is from Sasha Radicic. He built this short scale bass himself. Here’s the story in his own words: I wanted to build a short scale bass but bit longer string length than 30,5”. So this one ended up being 30 3/4” but more precisely I originally built it to be 780 mm. … Read more

This week’s selection is from John Isch. He built this bass himself. Here’s the story in his own words: I am in the habit of building “one off” basses, with a preference toward fretless. In most of my builds I like having two pickups and a preamp for maximum sonic possibilities.  This time I wanted … Read more

This week’s selection is from Tuur. He was looking for a minimalist design and asked his friend and builder Craig Lawton to help him out. Here’s the story in his own words: We wanted to build a bass with a most minimalist design with simple bold colours and no clutter. The idea was that rather … Read more

This week’s selection is a bass creation from David “Stew” Stewart. He built this beauty himself. Here’s the story in his own words: Much of today’s basses are dark brooding masculine instruments touting dark natural wood finishes or primary colors. I wanted to create a more sporty sexier bass that was still in charge of … Read more

This week’s selection is from Zachary Adkins. He took the leap and built this bass after doing minor repairs and mods to his own basses for years. Here’s the story in his own words: …After deciding to make one of my basses a fretless and having good success with that I started getting more interested … Read more