Competely Custom Bass Builders

Wishnevsky of course!

 

I contacted Bud Lecompte with many option that was not on his web site. He quoted me with a GREAT price!
I think he will do about anything as long as it's workable And viable.

Unfortunatly I can't go with the order right now. My wife won and we bought a 50" HDTV with the money we had!

 

Alembic.....

Just check out their custom instrument vault:

Custom Alembics

 

50" HDTV? We dun ned no stinkin HDTV! LOL! Man I feel your pain. But wait and it will come.

 

I'd check with Chris Benavente. He opened up that new x-treme custom line.

 

Chris Stambaugh can & will build you anything you'd like. From mild to wild custom body designs. Chris will do whatever he can to make sure you get what you want. And you won't pay an arm or a leg for his work. Very reasonable.

Stambaugh

He will see future business from me.

 

Jacob Marchlewski. Sick...just sick. Some (well most actually) of the stuff he does is just amazing. Check out some of his acoustic guitar stuff.

marchlewskiguitars.com

In the what's new section...grafting spalted and quilted maple togther on the back of the acoustic guitar.

Oh....and his basses aren't bad either

 

There's nothing like a good, high quality custom....



And a Wish is nothing like that!

I mean, gee whizz, look at these new beauties...



And hows this for a homemade horror?

 

Yes, the Divinity concept: see the first ones here.

BassLab also says they'll do whatever you like. And that high tech construction technique gives you some interesting options.

 

Another vote for Chris Stambaugh. He'll do whatever you'd like and the price will make you think "well, I might as well get a fretless too for that price!"

 

Stambaugh.

He'll do a total one-of-a-kind and it will be of the highest quality.

The only thing I think he wouldn't do is build something that he knows would be a bad idea.
I don't think he'd let you throw your money away so that he could make a profit.

Working with him on my custom was a pleasure.

Chad

 

Very good point.

 

Hembry on the cheaper, but good, end. (And he'll use inexpensive parts unless you provide better ones.) But if you spring for the machines and bridges and pickups, you could get a pretty cool bass to your design for less than $1K.

Steve Holst is my luthier of choice, though, and can build anything using any sort of construction. Archtop hollow-body? Sure! Custom scale length? You bet! Little pictures of your patron saint inlaid into the fingerboard. OK, if you say so. My referral might get you a small discount, but he'll be kinda spendy. Not Alembic spendy, though.

And don't forget Hambone. I can't speak for him (natch), but I've played one of his early basses. It's the good stuff.

 

Le Compte will do completly customs from the body shapes to customized string spacing. Chambered or hollow. So will FBB custom bassworks.

 

Looks like a deformed Honeynut Cheerio...

 

I like honeynut cheerios.

 

Timetone: http://www.timtone.com

I have never played one, but a fantastic reputation. See the oddities at http://www.timtone.com/gallery/SeriesSevenPlus.html

 

Yeah Timtone rawks, but you better have some SERIOUS dough. Fodera type dough. Ritter type dough. Jerz....aw you get the drift.