See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass was built with a little help from his friends, which fortunately included a luthier. 🙂 Simon writes: Bass Spec – 5 String 34″ scale 3 piece Maple Neck Through Walnut Body Walnut Headstock veneer Spalted Maple fingerboard Bartolini 57j1 Pickups Passive circuitry … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass is a Rickenbacker inspired 5-string. Builder Steven Baxter writes: This Tiberius-5 bass was built by Steven Baxter the founder of Dudacus Custom Basses located in Cambridge, MA. Steven has been involved in the greater Boston music scene and making his own instruments … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass design started with the string retainer and was built from there. Builder Giorgio Benedettini writes: Hi, I’m a luthier form Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This Bass started with the idea of a coin used as a string retainer. Then I designed everything … Read more
While BBG does sell plenty of stuff to help you get the Bernard Edwards tone (such as the Bartolini MM-size offerings among other things,) learning the technique Bernard used can be a challenge. The song with the bass line which is arguably one of the toughest to learn is Everybody Dance; this is the song … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here A 5-string that can handle G standard tuning? This feature bass of the week has you covered. 🙂 Builder Steven Davis from Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery writes: This 36-34″ fanned fret neck-through wenge monster was built in collaboration with Johan from the Swedish progressive metal band … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass is a 5-string headless. Builder Jeff Ziebart writes: This is a neck through 5-string I built featuring a 5 piece center section of padauk, eastern maple, and wenge between walnut veneers. The fingerboard is cocobolo bound with bloodwood and the 24 frets … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is a 35-inch scale 6-string lightweight at only 8.5lbs (3.85kg). Builder Thomas Rodriguez from Rodriguez Guitars writes: I specialize in classical guitars but I got my start making electric guitars & basses, I still make electrics when time permits. … Read more
Jack Marshall sent us in this article of his bass modifications. Thanks, Jack! If you’d like to contribute your own tips-and-tricks or informational or modification article, send it on over to editor@bestbassgear.com. You can send over your article as a Word DOC/DOCX, LibreOffice ODT (free!) document, OpenOffice ODT (free!) document or exported document saved from … Read more
I remember it as if it were a meal ago (that will make sense in a moment.) Fun fact: 1999 was 16 years ago. Yep. But don’t let that make you feel old, because every one of the songs below is still as cool and fresh today as they were when originally released back in … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week started off with just a ’66 Hagstrom neck, and ended up being something much different – and even has fret marker LEDs. Builder Mark Bombard writes: This is a custom 30.75″ short scale bass. I started with a 1966 … Read more
