Not so easy. The maker, my brother Gabriel, is actually an aircraft technician (works on LAN 747s), and that leaves little spare time and energy. He made a few of these, and in fact one of them, the second one he'd ever made, went to Europe about 7 years ago (by way of the original owner), something that my brother still regrets, as he was not satisfied -not at all- with that instrument.
Then, I have two of these, one is about to sport a new pickup set, of which I'll tell you next week when it's back home (my brother only does the woodwork, not the electronics).
We've entertained the idea of making these in bigger numbers, but I'm afraid is not worth the effort, at least it isn't being here anyway. We hace access to excellent wood here in Southamerica, but everything else is either too expensive (due to import taxes, mainly) or chinese crappy stuff.
So maybe one way could be to 'export' the bare instrument, wood only, even unfinished (in the sense of not oiled/lacquered/etcetera) as to be completed somewhere else, and marketed from there.
I'm attaching some older pictures of other basses. By the way, the design is based in two sources: catalunyan architect Antoni Gaudi's work in Barcelona, and a series of tribal Central African sculptures we saw in a museum here.
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