2024 Instrument Specs & Price List

BL Design makes bass guitars with three body styles: the Marozi and Caracal double cutaways and the Barbary single cutaway.

Marozi

Marozi

Caracal

Caracal

Barbary

Barbary

4-String

$4500.00

5-String

$5000.00

6-String

$5500.00

7-String

$6000.00

Standard Bass Guitar Features 

  • Neck

  • All instruments have modern set-neck construction

  • 34” or 35” scale

  • Left or Right handed

  • Fretted or Fretless

  • 3 -Piece hard maple neck

  • Half elliptical neck profile

  • Double expanding truss rod

  • Heel-block matches fretboard wood

  • Headstock cap and magnetic truss rod cover match top wood

  • Wenge Fretboard

  • Compound radius

  • 24 frets: medium nickel-silver fretwire

  • Luminlay side markers

  • Brass Nut

• Body

  • Your choice of standard body woods

    • Alder

    • African Mahogany

    • Poplar


• Top

• Hardware

  • Hipshot Ultralite tuning machines

  • ETS Tuning Fork bridge

  • ETS knobs

  • Dunlop Straplocks

• Electronics

  • Nordstrand Fat Stack pickups with coil switch

  • Passive Vol/Vol/Tone or Vol/Blend/Tone wiring

  • Switchcraft Jack with carbon fiber jackplate

  • Full shielding of pickup and electronics cavity

  • Magnetic electronics cavity cover

• Finish

  • Open-pore polyurethane

• Strings

  • Stainless Steel or Nickel strings

• Case

  • Protec Contego case

• Warranty

  • Each instrument includes a 5-year limited warranty to the original owner

Custom Order

• A 30% deposit is required to start building your bass

• Lead time is 18 months depending on workload

• Every Instrument is made to exacting specifications and tailored to you

• Playability, sound, comfort & aesthetic considerations are all equally important factors to each instrument 

2024 CUSTOM OPTIONS

Please contact for quote

  • Necks

    • 3 piece quartersawn hard maple is standard

    • 3-5 piece neck depending on woods and number of pieces.

      • Hard maple, hard curly maple, ash, wenge, bubinga, padauk, purpleheart (selection varies)

      • Carbon fiber bars

      • Custom scales, dimensions and profiles available upon request

  • Fretboards

    • Wenge fretboard is standard

    • Premium fretboard woods are available, market price

      • East Indian rosewood, gabon ebony, macassar ebony, goncalo alves, bubinga, birdseye maple, cocobolo, bocote, katalox, ziricote, zebrawood, bloodwood

    • Acrylic stabilized fretboard (special order)

    • Lined fretless

    • Epoxy coated fretless

    • Fretboard binding

    • Alternate fretwire sizes and types avail upon request

  • Bodies

    • 2 piece alder, African mahogany or poplar are standard

    • Premium body woods are available at market price

      • 2 piece end-matching is standard

      • Curly or quilted maple, walnut, swamp ash, nothern ash, redwood, sassafras, padauk, bubinga, black limba

    • Accent lines in maple, wenge or dyed veneer

    • Body chamber to reduce weight

    • Chambered with soundhole

    • Custom body shapes available and include CAD drawings for design approval

  • Tops

    • Your choice from our stock of Standard, Premium or Exhibition. A selection of top woods is viewable at https://gallery.bldesign.us/Top-Woods

    • Backs are also available and priced per piece

    • Full faced top (neck joint is hidden)

    • Woods not in stock can be special ordered

  • Hardware

    • Black hardware is standard. Chrome or Gold is also available

    • Hipshot Ultralite tuners are standard

    • Bridges

      • ETS Tuning Fork is standard

      • ETS Tuning Fork Piezo bridge with Bartolini buffer

  • Pickups

    • Nordstrand Fat Stacks are standard

      • Dual Coils

      • Other pickup types available upon request

    • Pickups by other manufacturers available upon request

  • Preamps

    • Nordstrand 3b preamp, custom configured

    • Preamps by other manufacturers available upon request

  • Finishes

    • Open pore satin polyurethane is standard

    • Full fill satin acrylic urethane

    • High gloss polyester

    • High gloss body/headstock and satin neck

    • Stains

  • Inlay

    • Headstock logo

      • Wood is standard

      • Pearl

      • Abalone

    • Traditional dot markers pearl or abalone

    • Cat-Eye markers

    • Block markers

    • Side markers pearl or abalone. Luminlay is standard

    • Custom inlay is available by quote based on materials and complexity

  • Other     

    • Wooden pickup covers

      • Matching or contrasting flat wood covers

      • Matching or contrasting radiused wood covers

      • Continuous covers

      • Exposed pole pieces

      • Integrated wood pickup cover and ramp

      • Continuous integrated pickup cover and ramp

    • Ramps

      • Matching or contrasting flat ramp

      • Matching or contrasting radiused ramp

      • Flat acrylic ramp

      • Radiused acrylic ramp

    • Knobs

      • ETS metal knobs are standard

      • Laminated wood knobs with markers

Custom Order

Full Fill Satin

Full Fill Satin

High Gloss

High Gloss