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Duke21 said:
In post #196 I gave the web site link to Westone basses. The Westone basses are well knows Matsumoku made basses.

The Eastone guitar company do not seem to have a web site, but I placed a picture of my Eastone "Beatles bass" on this thread earlier. I addition I gave link to one of the biggest guitar shop in Norway which sell Eastone guitars and basses.
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I think the point of post 211 was to say that this is an enormous task and because she is being thorough you should be patient while she goes through the huge stack of other names that were submitted before yours.

It doesn't mean that your suggestion is not a good one, it just means she hasn't gotten to it yet. This information has been posted more than once.
 
#222
PDGood said:
I think the point of post 211 was to say that this is an enormous task and because she is being thorough you should be patient while she goes through the huge stack of other names that were submitted before yours.

It doesn't mean that your suggestion is not a good one, it just means she hasn't gotten to it yet. This information has been posted more than once.
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I guess you are right!
 
#223
Duke21 said:
In post #196 I gave the web site link to Westone basses. The Westone basses are well knows Matsumoku made basses.

The Eastone guitar company do not seem to have a web site, but I placed a picture of my Eastone "Beatles bass" on this thread earlier. I addition I gave link to one of the biggest guitar shop in Norway which sell Eastone guitars and basses.
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Okay, I've got that now. Check out... Link Removed

I was going to post a pic of the Thunderbass, but the site owner has posted lots of restrictions on content. I've emailed them directly.

If you have any other specific info you'd like to see, please PM or email.

thanks,
Terri
 
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I tried to strip down the contents of thread. Here it is in very rough form...

Low End Jazz!
BaCH, Greco, Jackson, Mike Lull and Orville (Gibson Japan).
Jerzy Drozd? Kubicki?
Fodera, Bacchus, Atelier Z, History, Dragon, STD, Ken Smith
Most of the above are Japanese bass brands, regarding the Dragon I'm not fully sure it's the correct name.
I can still manage to spot Browne, Surine, Dot on Shaft, Andreas, Tokai, Mørch, Celinder, Skjold, Wiking as missing... maybe more will come to mind later
Blade, Capelli, Manne
Klein as seen here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=331215
david eden, hartke, SWR, walter woods, bag end, aguilar and those are just amps you missed of the top of my head. thunderfunk. takamine makes bass's?
Acacia, Alleva-Coppolo, Atkinson, Elrick, Hohner, Humanbase, JayDee, Kawai Basses, Moon, Valenti, History, Trace Elliot, EA, EBS, MarkBass, Epifani, Behringer, Bergantino, 65 Amps
Landing basses
Bee Basses
BassLab & Cort
Hayman
Herby, Heerby, Harley Benton (Thomann house brand), Jolana.
Pete Hilton
Breedlove.
SX.
Westone - Gormley - Samick
Lane Poor
Here's the Bass Brand Megathread. Currently at 24 thread pages of basses. There was even one poster, supposedly in the process of writing a book, who claims to have identified several thousand brands of bass.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=331215
I didn't see Vadim on there. Or Elrick! For shame!
CB
Cliff Bordwell !:cool:
Hutchins make some fine looking basses. :)
dalkowski 09-28-2010 09:11 AM
Travis Bean
Vaccaro
Renaissance (made lucite basses in the late 70s)
Rogue
AJ Brown 09-28-2010 09:59 PM
Marchlewski, Kala (U-Bass)
Warmoth
WalMart Silvertone Revolver Bass Guitar
Don't forget POS, the most popular brand. :eek:
How could you miss Musicvox?
Rondo isn't a brand, it's a store. Instead put down SX and Brice.
Douglas
Fernandes.
Univox??
Squier
Hondo :bassist:
Fodera makes some of the BEST basses, how is that not on the list?
Hondo :bassist:
Tagima
Nora, Greco, Univox, Guyatone, Starfire, Kimberly, Warmoth,
Kustom made a few basses in the late 60's/early 70's
Winston was a off shoot of Teisco in the early 60's.
Marleaux! I haven't played one, but damn do I want one.
Jerzy Drozd? Kubicki?
Jerzy Drozd - added
Kubicki - added
...History, Dragon, STD...
you're missing a significant number of the smaller, custom builders who frequent TalkBass. most of them have web pages you can find with very little effort
Ambush basses.
LeCompte
Riverhead
"A" Basses (now defunct); and Fury, from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Fury is now known for making Dingwall pickups, but their guitars and basses are excellent instruments in their own right.
And how could you miss Kubicki???
Klira, Domino, and Wurlitzer
How is jackson and SX not included?
Also J&D Luthiers, one of the more popular brands in Australia.
I don't think anyone has mentioned Carl Thompson basses either. If there's one company that should be on any list, It's Carl Thompson.
Gagliano -- cheap solidbody double-pickup, 30" version of the same bass made by Hofner but at a cheaper price. Had the same electronics and PUPs at the Beatle bass but with a 4-in-line headstock and a Fender-like bridge. My second bass in 1966 and it sounded fine.
Suzuki (Japan)
Traveler
AXL
U.S. Masters
Callowhill
Krappy
Austin
Barker
Benavente
Gecko
Sandburg
Pensa
Suhr
Overwater
Ramirez
Line 6
Parker
Pavel
Atlansia?
Moonshine Custom Guitars...:D
Weta and Ashton. Ahston from Australia and Weta from NZ, right down the road from me in fact :)
Jack Read custom
Mike Kinal makes some very nice instruments...Look at this beauty:
http://kinal.dreamhosters.com/gallery/large/spalted.jpg
Celinder, furch, duesenberg, pelosi, basslab, gr basses, elrick, kot, sei, bsx, Dave pushic, neuser, sukop, m basses, benavente, lecomte, jaydee, kd basses, dipinto, Wood & tropic, dammann. And Many others brands u can fin on google
Don't forget about Neo! My Neo "RockBass" custom bass, circa 1994.
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Celinder, furch, duesenberg, pelosi, basslab, gr basses, elrick, kot, sei, bsx, Dave pushic, neuser, sukop, m basses, benavente, lecomte, jaydee, kd basses, dipinto, Wood & tropic, dammann. And Many others brands u can fin on google
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National (http://www.heatrecords.com/photo_alb...bass_1_of.html)
Microfret
(http://www.toneshed.com/documents/styles.html)
jb player. just got a 5 string (somewhat)musicman copy made by them yesterday.
Antoria. Although I haven't searched all the links to see if they list it.
At some time they were produced in Japan in the Fuji Gengakki factory that was involved in some lawsuit with I think it was Gibson, not sure on that so don't quote me.
Woodo.
Antoria. Although I haven't searched all the links to see if they list it.
Tyler, Tacoma, Spellbinder
Scott French:
Missing favorite >> Supro.
Airline (Montgomery Ward catalog), National, Supro, and some Silvertones (Sears catalog) were made by Valco in the 1960s. Airline is now by Eastwood.
More - Kent, New York Pro, Stadium, Cameo, First Man
Crook www.crookcustomguitars.com
http://crestonguitars.com/guitars/index.php?cid=5
OOhh! Almost forgot! Creston http://crestonguitars.com/guitars/index.php?cid=5
Crook www.crookcustomguitars.com
Airline (Montgomery Ward catalog), National, Supro, and some Silvertones (Sears catalog) were made by Valco in the 1960s. Airline is now by Eastwood.
More - Kent, New York Pro, Stadium, Cameo, First Man I found http://www.suprousa.com/ but I'm guessing that's not who you mean?
Just discovered this brand today: Lero
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Fujigen (FGN) brand guitars/basses! lol http://www.fgnguitars.com/
Thought it was interesting that the store in Lilburn, GA appeared to have two Lero's. Either that or they reposted the same one with new pics - but it does have a different SKU number. Also, they posted another bass with no brand name that looks similar to the Leros. It has a Tele bass shape rather than a Tele guitar shape.
Just thought of another one: J.Rhyne
Jay was a luthier in the Atlanta area and was legend in the '70s. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture of his basses, but here is one of his guitar creations:
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Jay was a bass player himself and he liked the deep, simple sound like EBOs so his basses tended to sound somewhat similar. They were called Lima Beans cause that's the shape they had - not very attractive, just an odd oval shape.
This is pretty cool. I don't see a negative point the the fact that it has been done before, plus I notice you are checking links to be sure they ate active and the links valid.
Not sure if he is here somewhere, is be surprised if someone didn't mention him, I looked over the whole thread, didn't see so I figured I would post the link to one of my favorite bass porn.
Tom Clement
Clementbass.com
Amfisound (a Finnish company), Dame (Japanese)
Gecko from Australia http://www.geckoguitars.com/ (nothing to do with Warmoth)
Not sure if anyone has mentioned England's JayDee Link Removed
Originally Posted by gus1894 (Post 10250257)
This is pretty cool. I don't see a negative point the the fact that it has been done before, plus I notice you are checking links to be sure they ate active and the links valid.
Not sure if he is here somewhere, is be surprised if someone didn't mention him, I looked over the whole thread, didn't see so I figured I would post the link to one of my favorite bass porn.
Tom Clement
Clementbass.com
Gecko from Australia http://www.geckoguitars.com/ (nothing to do with Warmoth)
Not sure if anyone has mentioned England's JayDee Link Removed
Gecko is there.. Link Removed
Not JayDee. Thanks for the link!
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Kinal
Linc Luthier
Sukop
Hohner, Lecompte
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and the single Peerless "smoked bass"
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and the single Peerless "smoked bass"
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Hi Tom,
interesting I didn't see this before. Pretty cool. :hyper:..t
girlonbass 01-17-2011 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Labi (Post 10258842)
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This list is very cool. Had to strip it down but here's the contents...
Stumbo 01-17-2011 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by girlonbass (Post 10294214)
This list is very cool. Had to strip it down but here's the contents...

Tom Clements http://www.clementbass.com
http://www.str-guitars.com/modules/p...p?content_id=1
Kalamazoo
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Tom Clements http://www.clementbass.com
Hi Stumbo,
girlonbass 01-18-2011 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by vin*tone (Post 10297026)
STR.
http://www.str-guitars.com/modules/p...p?content_id=1
Added thanks!
I can't believe it took me this long to think of this one:
Kalamazoo
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Austin Hatchet
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My first bass was a Ashton.
I just learned a little about Landscape Guitars and Basses.
Daion(very sweet Japanese basses)
Reverend(FINALLY building basses again-and I WANT ONE!!!)
http://www.certainbass.com/main.html
You forgot Warmoth
Grosmann Guitars - www.grosmann.ro
Aslin Dane. I have never actually seen one in person though.
Premiere:
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Sei Bass
www.seibass.com
SwingTimePunk 01-20-2011 05:54 PM
This is a bass I've never seen in person but would love to try. Also out of production.
Company: Acoustic Control Corporation
Model: Black Widow
Some built by Bartell, some by Hohner, some by Mosrite
This is a great info site:
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Company: Acoustic Control Corporation
Model: Black Widow
Some built by Bartell, some by Hohner, some by Mosrite
This is a great info site:
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Chris Larkin http://www.chrislarkinguitars.com/
Stumbo 01-22-2011 09:41 PM Link Removed
Here's one I'd never heard of before today - Deusenberg. Craig's list is full of surprises.
http://www.duesenberg.de/
S.D. Curlee
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S.D. Curlee
Duke21 01-28-2011 02:48 PM
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Oscar Pratt basses and Xotic basses also. Valley Arts Guitars/basses?
Noguera Basses- like Yves Carbonne plays Moon brand basses - Larry Gramm played them JP Basses - like Jean Baudin's fanned fret 12 string that JP built before he retired.
Here is the picture of the Eastone "beatles" bass.
Daisy Rock: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Super-LI...TE_p_2070.html
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http://www.mulderbass.com/
http://www.kbguitars.com/
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http://www.beebasses.com/
http://www.abasses.com/
http://www.highwayhome.com/media/gui...facturers.html
Burns http://www.weirdvintageguitars.com/home.html
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Originally Posted by Magic Sam (Post 10366707)
http://www.beebasses.com/
http://www.abasses.com/
This list could be useful: ;-)
http://www.highwayhome.com/media/gui...facturers.html
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Super-LI...TE_p_2070.html
Duke21 02-01-2011 12:18 AM
As I mentioned earlier, the list lack Eastone basses and Westone basses:
Eastone: I've no idea if they have a web site, but the basses are for sale in Norway:
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Westone:
http://www.westone.info/indexthunderbass.html
allexcosta 02-01-2011 03:19 AM
MLaghus:http://mlaghus.com/
Eliezer Lara:Link Removed
D'Alegria: http://www.dalegria.com/
D'Mark: http://www.dmarkguitars.com/
Zaganin: http://www.nzaganin.com.br/
Marinho: Link Removed
Tiguez: Link Removed
Aries: http://www.aries-basses.com/ (site down for maint)
Nado Guitars: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Bottom Wave: Link Removed
Ladessa:http://ladessa.tripod.com/tipo.htm
Ledur:Link Removed
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Wood:Link Removed
Wase:http://www.wase.com.br/
Also check out this basses, some are extremely rare find in the US ;) so put them in your list :bassist:
Adamovic - http://www.adamovic.nl/
barrillon - Link Removed
Baton Rouge - (maybe out of business, but have 1 picture of it)
Brunaari - Invalid Link Removed
Bossa basses - Link Removed
Collier - Invalid Link Removed
dBbasses - Link Removed
DeGier guitars - Invalid Link Removed
Eliezer Lara custom - (only myspace Link Removed)
Grendel - could not find the website
hamer - http://www.hamerguitars.com/
jaydee - Link Removed
Kinal - http://kinal.dreamhosters.com/bass.htm
Knooren - http://www.knooren.nl/
knuckle guitar works - Link Removed
Mayones - http://www.mayones.com/
Merlos - could not find the website
moscato-guitares - Link Removed
Musicvox - http://www.musicvox.com/
Neuser - Invalid Link Removed
Noguera - Invalid Link Removed
Phillipine - ? (have a picture of it !! )
r.g. design - could not find the website
Rybski - out of business, from poland i think but have a picture of it.
Shack - could not find the website
Steffsen guitars - Link Removed
Terrence Lampé (out of business, from curacao have a picture of it)
Wood & Tronics - http://www.wtbasses.net/home.aspx
Eliezer Lara custom - (only myspace Link Removed) Link Removed
here is one not on the list, Breedlove.
SP Guitars, from Ukraine. Great basses, studied with Fodera guys:
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Henman-Bevilacqua B4-D [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Talbo [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Edwards [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Bacchus [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Visual-Kei [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
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Problems with Antiniotsai basses and guitars: http://www.chionline.com/Antoniotsai/index.html
Pierre Martines http://pierre.martines.free.fr/4cordes.html
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Problems with Antiniotsai basses and guitars: http://www.chionline.com/Antoniotsai/index.html
Pierre Martines http://pierre.martines.free.fr/4cordes.html
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What about Eastone and Westone??
Petronov
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Please see post #211
In post #196 I gave the web site link to Westone basses. The Westone basses are well knows Matsumoku made basses.
The Eastone guitar company do not seem to have a web site, but I placed a picture of my Eastone "Beatles bass" on this thread earlier. I addition I gave link to one of the biggest guitar shop in Norway which sell Eastone guitars and basses.
 
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Chandler Basses & guitars. They are in California and make a 12 string bass. At one time Tom Peterson played one and also the bass player from the Allman brothers had one. They also made some fantastic Jazz Bass 4 string versions with BE necks and their JB pickups. Very high quality. All custom great stuff. I picked up one of their mid 90s JBs and haven't played a better one. They also make & sell Pick Guards. All top end stuff.

http://www.chandlerguitars.com/photo_celeb.html
 
#234
Stumbo said:
Great project!

I suggest a note be placed on your website to contact you if any of the links get broken or websites disappear.

Any TB'r have time on their hands, randomly click on a few different bass links. You'll find some pretty cool basses.
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These are good ideas.

From time to time I do run a link checker http://validator.w3.org/checklink/. This program sniffs through a website and reports any link problems. I have on occasion found that links to change.

Will add some of this stuff over the weekend.

thanks,
Terri
 
#235
What a great thing that link checker is!! I had no idea those existed - I've already put it to good use.

Speaking of broken links, a number of the ones that were recently sent to you with japan in the link name are returning 404 Not Found. (Example: Link Removed)

I know you'll get around to those when you can - just giving you a heads up.
 
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allexcosta said:
Chris Larkin:
http://www.chrislarkinguitars.com/
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Chris Larkin is under Larkin. (Link Removed) I haven't always been consistent using the first name/last name or just the last name. Most of this depends on how the company name is listed on their main or contact webpage. Fender is not listed as Leo Fender and Ritter is under Jens Ritter because that's how it appears on their website.

If there is more that one company name, I try to add aka's in the comments field. This way you can use your browser search to find them.

Terri
 
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