See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here In this installment, Sheldon from Dingwall Guitars talked about the history of fanned frets, the challenge getting it to work with a 5-string bass guitar (the low B, specifically,) and how taking a look at how pianos are made helped greatly in getting a low B to sound right. … Read more
If you hadn’t heard, Prince passed away recently. Most people knew Prince as a singer and guitar player. However, he also knew how to play bass… …and he was darned good at it, too. Prince was the type of guy who in the studio could literally put entire songs together himself, seemingly with ease. Check … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here The feature bass for this week is a Fender-inspired 35-inch scale with some nice select woods to it. Builder Vern Green writes: This five string Fender Jazz inspired bass was the second guitar I ever built. This bass is inspired by two Fender instruments. The Fender … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here For anyone that has ever sold basses they built themselves, you may have had a customer that, without playing a single note, refused delivery of the freshly crafted instrument just received and sent it back. Reasons can vary for why the return happened, and in Sheldon’s story as described … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here Last week on Facebook, we informed the audience that we’ve never seen an acrylic-bodied instrument submitted for Bass of the Week, and that if someone submitted one they might be featured. Matt Brocking delivered with a modified Galveston bass. Matt writes (this is short, but it … Read more
The feature bass player of the week is Evan Veenstra from Canada, www.evanveenstra.com We interviewed Evan where we asked about his basses, gear and influences, which is below. After the interview is a video of Evan playing using piccolo strings (a very cool sound!) What is the main bass guitar you play, and why do … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here Just about any fan of bass guitars has heard of Dingwall, a company that builds high-end bass instruments out of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. This is an interview series with Sheldon Dingwall himself, and in this first part, Sheldon talks about what originally inspired him to start building bass … Read more
Earnest Mann is the owner of the feature Bass of the Week, the Bayou Basses Swallowtail. This is an instance where we not only were able to get the story of the build from the builder, but also have an interview with the owner of the instrument, who uses it regularly at his church. A … Read more
A YouTube user going by username “Baltasar Guañabens” plays a song familiar to many bass players, Tom Sawyer by RUSH. And he does it on a 5-string Sire V7. Tom Sawyer is, obviously, not an easy song to pull off (even when practicing just by yourself, never mind in a full band,) but once you … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here The feature bass for this week is a chambered body exotic. Builder Stephen McDonald from Steven McDonald Basses writes: Hey guys, I’m a small builder out of West Virginia, been a player 30+ years and a high end carpenter for about 15 years. Back in ’09 … Read more
