Hi, I wanted to share about meeting Craig Gruber! I first made contact with him through ebay email about a boom slang bass with tremlo bar. It was green and real cool looking to me. I keyed in custom homemade bass and Infinite metal werkz poped up on his site!
The bass was $1295.00. Alot of money 5 yrs ago. The way in which my questions were answered by the co impressed me and I was gonna get one of these basses. I had only started playing bass lesson wise a yr earlier and wanted something alittle more flashy than my old $10.00 cat bass by aria pro ll.
As a disabled vet taking care of a household of six it was difficult to justify getting that kind of money for just my needs. After thinking on it I realized I still had a card up my sleeve and decided to play it. I have been a Beatles fan since five years old and have collected Beatled lp,s my whole life. So I offered up my entire collection of 28 Beatles albums all original to swap for one of Gruber,s basses!
I mean what did I know.. After emailing my proposal Craig emailed me back saying thank you for my service to our country and to hold onto my records. That he would get me a bass to recognize my service. I was stunned and excited. Then six months went by and I emailed him about his last email to me concerning my new bass. I mean an offer is an offer until you say it isn,t right! He called my home at 11;00am that morning to tell me he had my bass and at 6:00pm was standing at my front door with his 944 parked out front of my house!
Truth, I dont know who craig Gruber is. He spent a couple hours with my wife and I sitting in the den playing acoustically on this bass he brought with a case that said infinite metal werkz. I couldn,t take my eyes off it. Beautiful wasn,t the right word. He gave it to me with key and cord and some magizines with his autograph on them. He told me he was the bassist for Rainbo and Blk Sabbath post Ioam. I could only smile and nod as my wife made gifts of peppers and garden veggies from my mother in laws garden for him.
Craig Gruber was humble and very sencere during his visit and shared his testemony on his life and his journey to where he was today! We liked him not because of the gift but because he was a person with substance and not phoney. I could only pluck and listen to Grubers discription of this mamoth bass and how it was put together. He mentioned that to replace it cause it was a prototype and custom made would be around 2,000.00 to 2500.00 dollars depending on the economy at the time! I didnt know such things cost that much.
I had a 2500.00 bass! It was all wood. A neck threw. 4 string. Gold hardware. It was all mine as he was leaving he told me to enjoy and to keep playing no matter what I felt like to just play throught it and everything would be okay!
Leaving finally I realized that a man with part of his life gone to hard living was making a comeback in music designing basses and giving what he could not because he had it to give but because he gave it to have it!..thank you , Mark renner.
The bass was $1295.00. Alot of money 5 yrs ago. The way in which my questions were answered by the co impressed me and I was gonna get one of these basses. I had only started playing bass lesson wise a yr earlier and wanted something alittle more flashy than my old $10.00 cat bass by aria pro ll.
As a disabled vet taking care of a household of six it was difficult to justify getting that kind of money for just my needs. After thinking on it I realized I still had a card up my sleeve and decided to play it. I have been a Beatles fan since five years old and have collected Beatled lp,s my whole life. So I offered up my entire collection of 28 Beatles albums all original to swap for one of Gruber,s basses!
I mean what did I know.. After emailing my proposal Craig emailed me back saying thank you for my service to our country and to hold onto my records. That he would get me a bass to recognize my service. I was stunned and excited. Then six months went by and I emailed him about his last email to me concerning my new bass. I mean an offer is an offer until you say it isn,t right! He called my home at 11;00am that morning to tell me he had my bass and at 6:00pm was standing at my front door with his 944 parked out front of my house!
Truth, I dont know who craig Gruber is. He spent a couple hours with my wife and I sitting in the den playing acoustically on this bass he brought with a case that said infinite metal werkz. I couldn,t take my eyes off it. Beautiful wasn,t the right word. He gave it to me with key and cord and some magizines with his autograph on them. He told me he was the bassist for Rainbo and Blk Sabbath post Ioam. I could only smile and nod as my wife made gifts of peppers and garden veggies from my mother in laws garden for him.
Craig Gruber was humble and very sencere during his visit and shared his testemony on his life and his journey to where he was today! We liked him not because of the gift but because he was a person with substance and not phoney. I could only pluck and listen to Grubers discription of this mamoth bass and how it was put together. He mentioned that to replace it cause it was a prototype and custom made would be around 2,000.00 to 2500.00 dollars depending on the economy at the time! I didnt know such things cost that much.
I had a 2500.00 bass! It was all wood. A neck threw. 4 string. Gold hardware. It was all mine as he was leaving he told me to enjoy and to keep playing no matter what I felt like to just play throught it and everything would be okay!
Leaving finally I realized that a man with part of his life gone to hard living was making a comeback in music designing basses and giving what he could not because he had it to give but because he gave it to have it!..thank you , Mark renner.
