See the business listing for this bass builder here The feature bass for this week is a 35-inch scale beauty made of holly. Builder Evan Nichols from www.facebook.com/nicholsguitarco writes: I wanted to build a sleek streamlined Bass. I originally bought a Holly top and was blown away by it and it gave me the idea … Read more
This week’s feature bass is a purple transparent 5-string beast. Owner Vitaly Ganya writes: This is first bass project from Latvian luthier’s Andrew Schultz custom workshop Brutal Guitars – Brutal Egregore 5. This instrument’s design and specification was made in collaboration with Latvian avant-garde band Theatrum bass player. Here is short description about this beautiful … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is another superexotic build by Geo Kitta. Geo writes: This bass is called the Supernova. I designed it after my USA ’93 Fender American Standard 22 fret Jazz bass. (pic of both also included below ) The 22 fret … Read more
This week’s bass guitar of the week is a super-exotic from Finland. Builder Tuli writes: TULI 5-String Fretless Chamberbass Specs Scale: 33” Top Plate: AAAA Bookmatched Karelian Masur Birch Back and Neck: Thermo Treated flamed Arctic Birch Finish: Hand applied oil and wax Pre-amp: NOLL TCM-3 active 3-band Pick-up: Delano 5-string Humbucker encased in Masur … Read more
While we rattled off 5 cool bass lines of the 90’s here, another band that had some great hits with great bass lines was The Mighty Mighty Bosstones with their song The Impression That I Get. The verse bass line is definitely one of the coolest out there. It’s involved-yet-not-too-involved, has a great groove to … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here For a first bass build, this is pretty darned good. (It is most likely true the builder has previous guitar building experience, and this is his first specific bass guitar instrument.) Builder John Fife writes: My brother commissioned me to build this bass for his son … Read more
