New Basses

Here's the first bass of 2011..

Swamp Ash, Maple neck with Birdseye Maple fingerboard and a Rosewood scratchplate.

This bass features a handwound pickup from Wizard and gold hardware from Gotoh and Hipshot.

The 12th fret inlay A50D are the initials of the owner, Andrew, who commissioned this bass for his 50th birthday.

In complete contrast to the simplicity of the last guitar is this fancy bass.

The body is predominantly walnut, with a central wenge core and a maple accent.

The neck is my preferred combination of wenge and maple with an ebony board.

Handwound bulldog pickups in handmade wooden cases, brass inlay work and hipshot hardware.

And here is the happy customer, Charlie - cheers Charlie, I enjoyed making this bass a lot.

Here's a nice straightforward guitar in Ash and Maple. Bulldog pickups, Gotoh Hardware and thats cocobolo backing the mother of pearl logo.

This is the latest bass out of the workshop.

A fretless 35" scale, this instrument features a unusually narrow neck (36mm wide at the nut and about 19mm thick at first fret) and a custom made humbucker from Bulldog.

The woods are African Walnut for the body, maple and ebony neck,figured french walnut, ebony and brass trim.

The Nouveau Simple is proving a popular design. This version in ash and maple, with ebony plates, inlays and neck binding is shortly off to Greece and into the hands of Dionisis Frantzis, bassist for Onirama ( http://www.onirama.gr/ ).

Dionisis asked for an inlay on twelth fret. The triangle logo ( based on the Greek letter D ) is made from both white and gold mother of pearl set in ebony.

This bass also features hand wound pickups courtesy of Hayden Minett at Bulldog pickups - and rather excellent they are too.

This guitar is the third I've built for this particular client - which puts him top of the owners club!

Certainly one of the finest instruments I've made it features..

- Mahogany, Wenge, and Maple veneer laminated neck

- Deep set "semi-through" neck.....the neck runs through the body almost to the bridge pickup cavity.

- Exhibition grade Quilted Maple/Rosewood/Honduran Mahogany/Quilted Maple laminate body

construction.

- Tom Holmes pickups

Hello. This is the latest guitar completed - built for Mr Stuart Burton.

It features a maple/RW neck, ash body , Gotoh Black chrome hardware. The humbucker is custom wound by Bulldog pickups - using all black pole pieces.

The finish is my usual oil and wax over a black stain, which gives the wood an aged, smokey feel. This is my take on the relic look I suppose - but rather than making the guitar look old I make the wood look like it's sbeen around for a while. This coupled with the mirrored plates give the insturment an industrial look which I rather like.