See the business listing for this bass builder here The week’s feature bass is a Alembic-inspired 6-string, and yes, there is a video demo of it below so you can hear what it sounds like (cool!) Builder Nathan Kangas writes: This Alembic inspired single piece six string bass is custom build for Nicholas Skinnell. He … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass is one excellent looking piece of Buckeye Burl wood, along with several other beautiful woods. Builder Chuck Phares from www.stonecrossguitars.com writes: I have been building custom 6-String guitars for the past 2 years and decided to give a bass a shot. Hooked … Read more
This week’s feature bass comes from Elash Cisse at Aash Bass Guitars, with a video demo! For more information other than what is shown here, you can visit their web site at www.aashbass.com. (The video demo of the instrument is after the photos below.) Elash writes: Aash basses guitars are made by choosing the appropriate … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass is a 5-string with a gorgeous black walnut front that along with other interesting touches to “fill in the gaps,” so to speak. John, builder of the instrument, writes: This is the fourth bass I have built, a five string fretless. I … Read more
Proof that you don’t need an expensive bass to get great tone, YouTube user Sanitys Void rocks out using an under-$400 Jackson JS3. The fact this sounds any good at all using a camera microphone is actually quite impressive. What would you upgrade on this bass? Drop in some EMG 35 pickups, perhaps? 🙂
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is a fretless whammy! Builder Barton Applewhite writes: 6-string fretless bass with a Kahler tremolo. It has one EMG 45TWX pickup and Hipshot Ultralight tuners. The construction is a maple neck-thru with alder wings and a ziricote fingerboard. The … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is a 5-string short scale! Cool! Builder Joe Kruse from MBJ Guitars writes: Build a short scale 5 string? Why not?! My goal with this instrument was to build something compact and utilitarian while still retaining an air of … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is 26 frets of Jazz style goodness. Builder Rob Vaughn writes: This is the third model bass I’ve made, It’s a neck through 34″ jazz style. The neck is solid flamed maple with mahogany veneers on the headstock cut … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here A short-and-sweet build story for this week’s bass guitar of the week, but still a great build nonetheless! Bass builder Anthony McDonald from Anthonycustombass.com writes: This bass is build Namm advertisement Wood maple, Purple Heart, Mexican ebony ash Elec, pope 18 volts preamp system, active/ passive … Read more
Alembic-inspired design goes a long way in this translucent flamed purple bass machine. Buyer Andrew Noto had Mariotti Guitars construct this guitar for him. Andrew writes: Had the fortune of meeting Guglielmo on Facebook. I saw him there holding a double-neck Rick, sent a friend request, and he accepted. After we started talking, he told … Read more
