attn: non-american tb'ers

This one hurts... so far I don't think there's an American presence:


http://www.seibass.co.uk/

Then there's

Salwender

http://www.ritter-basses.com/custom.htm

That's a start

 

I don't know how foreign Canada is... Not very I'd guess. I'd guess you're familiar with F-bass and Dingwall, but I'll post the links anyway.
www.fbass.com
www.dingwallguitars.com

Here's one that you may not have seen before. The guy's name is Vadim Rubstov, he's based out of the Toronto area and makes some very nice instruments.
www.welcome.to/vadimhandmadebasses

There are probably a few more kicking around up here, let me do some digging.

 

Not really a luthier but Godin makes their basses in Montreal, Canada.

 

Godin's BG-IV and BG-V basses are a real good buy for the $$$, relatively unknown and underrated basses. They may not be hand made custom basses but very well made and sounding nonetheless!!!

www.lasido.com

 

Here's a link to Wood, a brazilian bass manufacturer. The site's in Portuguese, but I can translate some things if anyone wants any info.

http://www.woodguitars.com/baixosp.htm

 

From Japan:

http://www.atelierz.co.jp/catalog/catalog.html


From France:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/leduc/Gb/_bass.htm


From Italy:

http://www.laurus.it/


From the Netherlands:

http://www.knooren.nl/basses/


I've posted this one a couple of times before, but I still get a kick out of it. From Mars, via Japan:

http://www.cnet.ne.jp/atlansia/BASS.htm


There's also these guys:

http://www.luthiersaccessgroup.com/bassbuilders.html


Plus a whole bunch of Germans: Human Base, Schack, Esh, Vektor etc.

 

He aint a bass maker (yet), but ther is a guy called Joh Lang, in New Zealand. He makes guitars out of VERY rare New Zealand native woods.

My dad plays guitar and has one of his guitars. It is made out of Kauri and cost him about $5000 (about $3000 Us dollars).
And it plays like a dream, and is about a heavy as my MIM Jazz 5 string!

Icant find a site, sorry

 

And here's one of those "nice instruments" which I hope to have in my hands in the next couple of months -

(My Vadim bass - previously posted)


Of course, there's also Mike Kinal (in Vancouver, Canada), who will be making my next fretless 5. His website is www.kinal.com and here's pic of my bass (an MK5 fretless) -

 

And in addition to Sei, Wal, Overwater, et al, this bloke from the UK just came on line. No pics yet though; bollocks.

http://www.synergycustom.co.uk/

 

here's what italy has to show on the web:

www.laurus.it
absolutely GREAT. don' judge by those silly headstocks, these basses are incredible. the fretless is unbeliaveble. prices are HIGH. more than $3000...

www.frudua.com
more traditional. something like a lakland/sadowski in the look. watch the 6 string. the fretless real bass is great

www.manne.it
interesting look. never tried one but they are high quality instrument.

www.maribyredivivus.it
played one at an italian music "namm". plays like butter.

http://ekoguitars.com/
not handmade. but eko was the biggest name during '60s and '70s they seem to do basses and guitars in italy too, but now the import basses from korea and china. they have a musicman knockoff that's really good for the money.

www.giniski.com
??? it seems a bashin shark instrument.

http://web.tiscali.it/claudio_citarella/claudioweb5b.html

http://users.iol.it/liutart/bassi.html

http://www.saldaneriguitars.it/menu.htm

http://space.tin.it/musica/giucare/

 

Okay,

some very well known german luthiers:

<b>ESH</b>
www.esh-basses.com
www.eshusa.com

<b>PHANTOM</b>
www.phantom-guitars.de

<b>MARLEAUX</b>
www.marleaux-bass.de

<b>HUMAN BASE</b>
www.humanbase.de

<b>BASSLABS</b>
www.basslabs.de

Talking about amps, there´s Glockenklang (I think) and Hartke.

David

 

ok, some more from Germany:

Basslab (it's Basslab, not Basslabs!)

www.basslab.de

Jens Ritter:

www.ritter-basses.de

Sandberg

http://www.sandberg-guitars.de/

Le Fay

www.lefay.de

Bassline

www.bassline-bass.de

Auerswald

www.auerswald-instruments.com

Christoph Kost

http://www.christof-kost.de/

BassCulture

http://www.bassculture.de/

Bassline

http://www.bassline-bass.de/

Clover

No webpage yet - www.clover.de

Schack

www.schackguitars.com (distributor)

Hotwire

www.hotwire-bass.de

Magnus Krempel

www.magnusguitars.de

lots more I can't think of right now

Amps/Cabs:

Merlin

http://www.merlin-bass.de/

Glockenklang

www.glockenklang.de

Sieben Audio Design (S.A.D.)

http://www.ave-audio.de/

Reussenzehn

www.reussenzehn.de

Tech Soundsystems

www.tech-soundsystems.de

Hughes & Kettner

http://www.hughes-and-kettner.com/

 

From the Nordics:

Basses:
www.eugen.no
www.celinder.com
www.neuserbasses.com

Amps & FX:
www.ebs.bass.se

There are more luthiers and amp builders, but their webpages are either horribly outdated or non-existent.

 

one more from italy:

www.vfguitars.com/bassi.htm

 

http://www.muzonet.com/maverick/

 

Clairmont DeLaCroisetière

and one of the best luthier in the world....

Pierre Laporte

 

I HAVE TO RESIST THE TEMPTATION!!!
!!!
That luthier offers you whatever you want.
I could...

How much $$$ , and How good?

 

hey barroso!

I just stumbled onto the Manne site the other day. Good stuff!

I couldn't help noticin' their "Acoustibass"...let's see here...
chambered body, string-through, a piezo in the bridge AND
a single coil J-type magnetic pup . What a cool idea!

 

You just described my Elrick, except I have a soapbar instead.