Name instrument companies that only make basses.

[Wyrdlow]

Status had guitars as a regular item in their catalog before going on hiatus. Now that they've resumed they're only making a limited line of basses.

Doh!

 

[Turnaround]

Lakland
Zon
Dingwall
Elrick

...I'm probably wrong on all counts, just guessing

Elrick Guitars - Elrick Bass Guitars

 

[ardgedee]

Le Fay.

Carl Thompson?

Thompson makes guitars. One every few years at most -- but his website says they will accept orders for them.

 

[BASSDROID]

Carl Thompson?

Carl has made several guitars over the course of his career including more than one for Lou Reed.

 

[Lindsey Burke]

Ken Smith Basses

 

[izpak]

Jaydee (RIP).

They make a SG style model guitars and a signature model for Tony Iommi

 

[FRoss6788]

Well, at best you're 3 for 4, and maybe another point off for not reading the first post in the thread.

Zon Stiletto
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Dingwall Custom I

Elrick MVS-64
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(edit: To be fair, the Zon and Dingwall are old models, both companies only make basses now as far as I can tell. But Elrick currently builds a pretty extensive range of guitars, both Fender tributes and their own designs.)

I knew I was probably off...

I didn't google any of them, just off the top of my head. I've never seen guitars by any off these companies.

 

[dalkowski]

Wishbass

 

[Altitude]

Valenti Basses

Skjold Design Guitars

…which happen to be my two builder partners.

 

[Schlyder]

Jerzy Drozd

 

[ardgedee]

Wishbass

Found on the wishbass.com home page:

 

[fhtagn]

Human Base comes to mind. Their web design strongly reminds me of the old Rickenbacker site.

https://www.humanbase.de/

 

[salmon256]

I want to say Rob Allen, but did they use to make guitars?

 

[dkelley]

Obviously Wal made the Roger Newell / Chris Squire triple-neck, but AFAIK that was it.

It is even arguable that the triple-neck was a guitar - it looks like 3 in two courses rather than an actual 6-string:

but the six string in that isn't a guitar...it's a 3 string bass with double strings.... if I recall correctly...

 

[conttador]

Bassist is a very broad category.

Wind instrument makers produce oboes and bass oboes, saxes and bass saxes, clarinets and bass clarinets, trombones and bass trombones, as well as tubas.

Violin makers produce various violins, including bass violins.

Percussion companies make the various drums, including bass drums

Thus, guitar manufacturers generally produce guitars, including bass guitars.

Not on a forum for electric & upright bassists…

 

[conttador]

To the best of my knowledge Tom Clement only makes basses…

 

[iriegnome]

Modulus, G. Gould, Veletti, Devon..

 

[walking Bass]

Rob Allen and Ken Smith.

 

[SteveCS]

it's a 3 string bass with double strings

Yes, that's what it looks like to me - 3 in two courses (and an abviously shorter scale).

 

[ardgedee]

Modulus, G. Gould, Veletti, Devon..

Modulus only makes basses now but they made guitars in the '90s and '00s.

Geoff Gould currently makes guitars.

By "Veletti" did you mean Valenti or Vielette? They both make guitars as well as basses. I couldn't find a luthier named Veletti.