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.

The finished "Nouveau Simple" in Walnut.

This bass features a single Kent Armstrong Humbucker with a Kent Armstrong active circuit, Rosewood Board, and an English Walnut body.

It has a much warmer, rounder sound than the previous "simple" bass with very strong mids, largly down to the walnut body which is nearer in mahogany tonally, but with a little more bite and top end.

This bass is for sale, please email for details.

Hello, here's a recent publicity shot. Hopefully for use in Bass Guitar Magazine in their Luthier section - more news on that soon....

That the Walnut "Simple" bass nearly finished, behind the version in cherry

The finished result.