custom basses?

Hello... there is no right answer to your question on that.. all of the custom builders out there are great! Some Private Luthiers are like

Tim Salas
Matt Schmill
Dave Pushic
Bone

etc.. etc....

but all of them are fantastic basses.. it all depends on what you want and the prices that they give you.

 

That depends on how custom you want it.
For ultra custom, that means, you can be the "designer" then www.dpcustom.com (David Pushic)

For semi customs you have plenty of choices:
Conklin
Fodera (www.fodera.com) Great but Expensive
Matt Scmill
Acacia
Salas
Fender (LOL.... )

For fixed options customs:
www.carvin.com
The construction is very good, but the pickups are another story, and you cant customize that.

There are several on the web.
I can recommend you check www.luthiersaccessgroup.com

 

I like http://www.brubakerguitars.com - I have three of em. I also owned a Bone fretless and one of Matt Schmill's early basses (#002-07). Custom basses are pretty unique and cool.

 

As Dark Mazda suggests, asking about "the best" in anything bass/music related is pointless because it's all about taste.

I haven't tried them all by a long shot, but the nicest playing, best sounding, custom I've had the pleasure to play is an R Bass by Ray Rogers. He used to work in Carl Thompson's shop. Some of his work resembles the single cutaway design used by Fodera and Ken Lawrence.

You can see some of his work here -
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/briansbass/page9991.html

A lot of these guys are members of www.luthiersaccessgroup.com where you can have your spec's bid on by several luthiers.

 

If you have 4,000 bucks and four years to wait, get a Carl Thompson, if i wasn't a poor 14 year old i'd do it. Carvin's are awsome if you dont have those things. i've estimated that if i make 20 bucks a week i can get a CT by the time im 22.

 

http://www.casema.net/~owvamst/basses.htm


www.humanbase.de

www.marleaux-bass.de

www.le-fay.com

www.ritter-basses.de

www.schackguitars.com

www.basslab.de

http://www.sandberg-guitars.com/index_e.html

www.auerswald-instruments.com

 

www.ssdbass.com
www.sadowsky.com
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But they suck. I saw some Joe Dirt looking "Mullet Man" on bunny bass w/a few.

 

is there a web page for bone basses?

 

http://www.bonebasses.com/
I used to own the flame maple top 4 string fretless on the photos page. It was a very interesting and good sounding bass that I got from eBay for $675! Too bad I'm a lousy fretless player.
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<b>AWESOME!!!!!!</b>

 

WOW! You've got a pic of Stanley Clarke fingering one of your basses, and Roger Sadowsky playing another!

 

David King
Builds what you want, as long as you keep your head to yourself
http://www.kingbass.com/
Gary Watts gets raves too:
http://www.wattsguitars.com/

 

Hanewinckel basses:

www.hanewinckelguitars.com
(also www.hguitars.com, easier to type

I love my 6, and it is, as Pete took to calling it, "Super-Custom". You can call him up and work on the design of your bass together.