This album contains images of my earliest basses, and body shapes that are no longer offered.
My second bass, based on a Precision shape. Fretless bass with a sandwich neck, and with a swamp ash body.
This bass is my third, and one I still own and play regularly. It is loosely based on the Zeta Crossover bass. It's built using mahogany, bubinga and wenge.
Chambered alder body with a walnut top. Mahogany, bubinga and wenge neck with a bubinga fingerboard. G&L pickup
Mahogany and wenge body. Laminated 34" scale mahogany neck with a wenge fingerboard.
Mahogany, maple and wenge body with a 34" scale mahogany and cherry neck and a wenge fingerboard. Bartolini pickup and active electronics.
5 string 35" scale bass with a mahogany, maple, wenge and bubinga core and mahogany wings with birdseye maple tops. The neck is Mahogany Wenge and Bubinga.
Mahogany back and a one-piece figured bubinga top. The neck is mahogany, bubinga and hard maple. Dimarzio pickups
Walnut, mahogany and maple body with a laminated cherry neck and a wenge fingerboard. Shaller bridge and Bartolini pickups.
5 string 34” scale. The customer sent me a “Spirit” bass and told me to build a fretless for him using the hardware. The body is Basswood with a bookmatched Spalted Maple top. The neck is made of Mahogany Maple and Wenge with a Wenge fingerboard. He also sent me mighty mite pickups to go in it.
34" scale 4 string. The body has a Mahogany center core with Alder wings and Birdseye Maple tops. The neck is Laminated Maple with a lined Ebony fingerboard. Hipshot bridge. Bartolini pickups and 18 volt active system.
Four string 34” scale. Spalted Maple top with a Mahogany core and walnut wings. The neck is made of Mahogany, Bubinga and Maple. The pickup is a Seymour Duncan SCPB-3.
34" scale 4-string. The top is bookmatched spalted maple and the back is mahogany. The neck is made of mahogany with rosewood stripes and a hard maple center stripe. Bubinga fingerboard and an ebony nut.
4 string 35” scale bass with a burl Maple top and a Honduran Mahogany body. The pickup is a Basslines quarter pounder. The neck is also Mahogany with a lined Pao Ferro fingerboard.
34" scale Swamp Ash body with a Birdseye Maple neck and fingerboard. The pickups are Fender Highway 1 Jazz pickups.
Old Jazz type Swamp Ash body with Redwood Burl top. Bubinga, Wenge and Walnut neck with Cocobolo fretboard. Seymour Duncan pickups and Bartolini preamp.
Swamp ash back, aged sycamore top, Nordstrand preamp and big singles, Schaller bridge. The bass has a Status Graphite Jazz Bass neck.