Lorita bass ( Marcos Miranda endorser )

HI. I want to share some pics of building process of Marcos Miranda's bass.

Marcos is one of my endorsers and he es a king person. So he wants a very especial bass:

-Flamed Mukaly top
-Maohany body
-Neck: 1 piece hard maple/ 2 pieces hard ash set in neck
-Ebony fretboard
-Custom "wave" fretboard inlay
-Custom Lorita wooden cover dual-coil pickup
-Vintage turquoise finish.

I hope you like it.

 

Many Thanks Potomac. I learned from one of the best luthiers, Jerzy Drozd. I was working 13 years with him and now I try to do my own way after 17 years of working as a luthier.

Thanks for your kind words!!!

 

Hi Rod!!! great to see you here!!!! yes, we spend a lot of time working with your bass but was a nice challenge to do it. It's a special bass for a special person and I remember how complicated was to find the perfect flamed maple top, to take care about all the details!!!!

Thanks my friend and see you here!!!!

a big hug!!!

 

Hi Nomad98 and thanks for your kind words. About the neck I like both, maple neck or hard ash neck, so I offer this 2 options to my customers. 3 maple neck is classic but if you add hard ash to a neck the sound changes a little bit.

Ash is more acustic sound, with a full midrange and clear lows, but hard ash is more flexible and stable to temperature changes. These characteristics make it ideal to build bass guitar necks.

About the fingerboard I'm not fan about a fretboard full of inlays, but in this case was the customer choice. The technique is simple: just glue in the fretboard ( don't do the neck shape ), then make the space for the inlay. Make the inlay apart and then glue in together with titebond. Once all is glued fill it with black epoxy.

If you use a CNC machine is more easy but I don't have one so I did it by hand spending a lot of hours.

 

I use satin poly for finish the basses.

 

Yes Rod, I remember to repeat the entire body. When we had finished the first body Jerzy said: I do not like the result. Repeat it. It was crazy but the second body was much better. Try to make the perfect bass has its drawbacks but the effort is worth it.