IN PROGRESS:
 

7/19/2010 - I've let the updates go for a while but you can catch up on the building of #018-#025 in the Batch #3 Gallery

Photos of the final product are in the Bass Gallery. 018,023 & 024 will be done shortly and the rest are complete.

 

12/15/2010 -The spraybooth awaits....

#018 #018

#019 #019

#020 #020

#021 #021

#022 #021

#023 #023

#024 #024

#025 #025

See the whole build in the Batch #3 Gallery

 

11/14/2009 -There's a bunch of sanding to do before I'm in the spray booth but they're getting closer...

 

08/28/2009 - Batch #3 is coming along nicely. Next up is glueing the neck to the body then cutting the cavities and pickup covers. When that's done the tops get glued on and the carving begins. I dig carving!

Enjoy..

 

#018 - Marozi 4-string: Zebrawood top and fretboard, Poplar body, Ash neck

#018

#019 - Marozi 4-string: Crotch Walnut top, Spanish Cedar body, Indian Rosewood fretboard, Maple/Wenge neck

#019

#020 - Barbary 4-string fretless: Avodire top, Ash body, Pupleheart fingerboard, Ash neck

#020

#021 - Barbary 5-string: Claro Walnut top, Mahogany body, Wenge fretboard, Wenge neck

#021

 

#022 - Marozi 5-string: Maple Burl top, Khaya body, Ebony fretboard, Wenge/Curly Maple neck

#022

#023 - Barbary 5-string fretless: Redwood Burl top, Birdseye Redwood body, Padauk neck, Figured Bubinga fingerboard

#022

#024 - Barbary 4-string: Wenge top, Poplar body, Birdseye Maple fretboard, Ash neck

#024

#025 - Marozi 4-string: English Walnut top, Poplar body, Goncalo Aves fretboard, Maple neck

7/29/2009 - Batch #3 is in progress and consists of 8 basses, three 5-strings and five 4-strings. All of these are inventory basses
and can be reserved if you see one that you would like. I'll have a definite time frame once the basses are in the spray booth.

Build photos are in the batch #3 gallery.

1/1/2009 - Happy New Year!!! 2009 Direct Price List Now Available
12/5/2008 - Batch #2 is done and photos are in the Bass Gallery.
#017#016
7/16/2008 - Batch #2 progress pics are up. Below are the first couple tops that will be used. These will be 5-strings with standard specs.

#016

017

6/7/2008 - B-Shirts will be available at the Rochester International Jazz Fest.

B-shirt front

B-shirt back

5/24/2008 - Lots of new wood in for Batch #2 and inventory. I'm still resawing for tops & fingerboards, as well as making neck blanks and taking pictures of it all. Pics will be updated when the new web platform is ready.. soon.. very soon.

Basses #013 and #014 are currently at Bernunzio Uptown Music. If you are in Rochester or coming here for the Jazz Fest stop in to check them out. Now's the time!

B-Shirts are on the way.

 

4/22/2008 - Progress pics will be updated when the next Batch 'o' Basses is started in May.

12/30/2007- Web updates are in progess. Happy New Year!!!

 

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