Manchester Bass Lounge

Assorted basses at a recent  "Meet the Luthier" event at MBL. Lovely evening meeting lots of well informed and friendly bass players, expertly hosted by Drew.

New Bass available at Manchester Bass Lounge

This recently finsihed bass features a maple and mahogany neck, cocobolo fingerboard and ash and imbuya body.
The pickup is a wooden covered seymour duncan in a guitar style humbucker mounting.

At the time of posting this bass is available to buy at the Manchester Bass Loung, http://manchesterbasslounge.com/

Bass for sale and youtube video

The bass featured in my last post is now for sale here on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Everson-Custom-Bass-Guitar-EMG-Precision-and-DC-pickup-/230846392628?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35bf846934

And here is a short video I made about the bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9VYMJcZF0

Walnut Twin Pickup 4 String

 

This bass features a 3 piece bolt on neck of maple and mahogany. The body is ash with a walnut top, the fingerboard is Madagascan rosewood.

 

The neck pickup is an EMG 40P, which is essentially a precision pickup in a soapbar casing. I have positioned this more or less in the correct precision position which gives a classic, familiar sound - the bridge pickup is an EMG 40DC for a more powerful, modern sound.

 

The hardware is by hipshot, with both the tuners and bridge constructed from aluminium.

 

Other than that the usual zero fret, 34" scale, 20" fingerboard radius, thin body ( 1.25" thick ) and thick headstock ( 17mm ).



Bass on Greek TV

Here's some good footage from Greek television of one of my basses in action with the group Onirama. Have a look at earlier posts to learn more about the bass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oW9F-te-Jo

Cocobolo Through Neck

A new bass being picked up by it's owner, Neil, at Bassday 2011 in Manchester

Cocobolo Through-Neck Bass

This new bass is the first through-neck instrument I've made in a while.

The neck is maple and wenge, with body wings of ash fronted in a lovely orangey cocobolo.

The neck binding and position markers are also cocobolo.

The pickups are hand wound ( by Wizard pickups in Wales ), and complemented by an extensive control system comprising of two volumes, passive tone control, active 3 way tone controls and the four switches select betweem active/passive, series/parallel and humbucker/single coil.