My name is Dan Creimerman, I am a professional musician and composer, and since three years I build basses and guitars. I began reparing my older son classical guitar peghead. Traying to learn how to do it , I discovered talkbass and the whole world of making your bass as you like it. I made till now, four basses and four guitars. Thanks to all of you here on talkbass for everything I have learn . This is the best schol.
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Hey guys!
My name is Kale,
Im 16, been playing bass for like 7 years.
I have no job, but i go to highschool half the day and the other half i go to college, where i am currently taking classes for AutoCAD and various CNC operations.
I have built 1 bass which i didnt care for, so i gave it to a friend who loves it, but i am planning on making more. I do play in a band called Summertown. I also play in a jam band with my dad and some of his friends. I love snowboarding, skateboarding, riding my fixed gear bike, racing BMX, and certainly playing bass!
I have grown up around wood workers my whole life. As my grandfather and father were both high class wood workers and cabinet makers. So i have been working with wood pretty much since i could pick up a hammer.
I love Phish, Pink Floyd, 311, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and much more.
I have a large head of curly locks that you can see in the attached image. (im on the very left)
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My name is Kale,
Im 16, been playing bass for like 7 years.
I have no job, but i go to highschool half the day and the other half i go to college, where i am currently taking classes for AutoCAD and various CNC operations.
I have built 1 bass which i didnt care for, so i gave it to a friend who loves it, but i am planning on making more. I do play in a band called Summertown. I also play in a jam band with my dad and some of his friends. I love snowboarding, skateboarding, riding my fixed gear bike, racing BMX, and certainly playing bass!
I have grown up around wood workers my whole life. As my grandfather and father were both high class wood workers and cabinet makers. So i have been working with wood pretty much since i could pick up a hammer.
I love Phish, Pink Floyd, 311, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and much more.
I have a large head of curly locks that you can see in the attached image. (im on the very left)
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Hi everyone! This is Conor Wenk posting for my company American Son Guitars! I'm currently attending Roberto-Venn School of luthiery and looking to get building! I studied with Gary Fried of Fried Guitars LA before coming here, and the bass on the left is one of two guitars I completed with him.
American Son Guitars Student Basses!
On the left we have a 34" scale, oil finished, 5-string fretless bass. Featuring a claro walnut top, swamp ash body, maple neck, maple fretboard, and a Hipshot Ultralite tuners and a B-style bridge.
On the right we have our more recent Elk-Head 35" scale Nitro finished 5-string. Featuring a figured walnut on maple double top, mahogany body, maple neck (satin), ebony fretboard (med-tall frets), Hipshot Ultralite tuners and an A-style bridge.
Both instruments feature Nordstrand NPJ5s set with their 2B-4b preamp!
Let me know what you think!
Hi everyone! This is Conor Wenk posting for my company American Son Guitars! I'm currently attending Roberto-Venn School of luthiery and looking to get building! I studied with Gary Fried of Fried Guitars LA before coming here, and the bass on the left is one of two guitars I completed with him.
American Son Guitars Student Basses!
On the left we have a 34" scale, oil finished, 5-string fretless bass. Featuring a claro walnut top, swamp ash body, maple neck, maple fretboard, and a Hipshot Ultralite tuners and a B-style bridge.
On the right we have our more recent Elk-Head 35" scale Nitro finished 5-string. Featuring a figured walnut on maple double top, mahogany body, maple neck (satin), ebony fretboard (med-tall frets), Hipshot Ultralite tuners and an A-style bridge.
Both instruments feature Nordstrand NPJ5s set with their 2B-4b preamp!
Let me know what you think!
Those look great. Good luck with getting your company up and going. Those should sell, I would think.
Hello,
I'm Ian Weston. I run Weston Instruments in Ottawa, Canada. I'm a full time Luthier, specialized in vintage restorations and wacky modifications, but I also build a few instruments a year. I have about 20 builds under my belt now, and about 6000 repairs/modifications. My latest creation is an LED fingerboard replacement on a Stu Hamm Urder II. You can see it in this thread:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/latest-mad-creation-1047460/
I'm Ian Weston. I run Weston Instruments in Ottawa, Canada. I'm a full time Luthier, specialized in vintage restorations and wacky modifications, but I also build a few instruments a year. I have about 20 builds under my belt now, and about 6000 repairs/modifications. My latest creation is an LED fingerboard replacement on a Stu Hamm Urder II. You can see it in this thread:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/latest-mad-creation-1047460/
Hi,
Im Gareth, I live in Swindon in the UK.
I've recently come back to playing Bass and after my wife left me, I'm going back into my garage and building basses again after a 12 year lay off. I'm finding renewed passion for bass.
I've build 7 basses so far. My first bass was a 4 string fretted with a through neck and a Kent Armstrong pick up. It's easily my most used bass. I then built a 5 string headless, using Status Graphite hardware and Kent Armstrong pickups.
My most crazy bass was inspired by Steve Lawson, who suggested I built a 7 string headless...back when no made them. In fact, I'm pretty sure I was the first. The top headpiece, I had to get custom made. These days I can buy these from Hipshot off the shelf...how things have changed!
I'm currently finishing a 6 string, which I stopped building a long time ago and it's progressing nicely. I'm also re-starting a 6 string bolt on which is heavily influenced by G&L / Lakland / MTD basses. It'll have a single Jazz pickup and a split coil humbucker from Bartolini. That lot will probably keep my busy for the next year or so. But it's just occurred to me that I don't have a P bass anywhere...so maybe I'll start designing my next 4 string around that concept.
My inspiration for building basses came from 2 particular basses, one was a candy green G&L LS1500 which stole my heart and the other was a Peter Scott Hammerhead 5 string bass, which I saw in the now defunct Bassist magazine. I couldn't afford either but I was curious how their different design concepts effected their tone. I then bought Melvyn Hiscox book "How to make your Electric Guitar" and then set about learning about building my own basses.
I've catalogued most of my builds here:
http://www.gmcbasses.co.uk/
Im Gareth, I live in Swindon in the UK.
I've recently come back to playing Bass and after my wife left me, I'm going back into my garage and building basses again after a 12 year lay off. I'm finding renewed passion for bass.
I've build 7 basses so far. My first bass was a 4 string fretted with a through neck and a Kent Armstrong pick up. It's easily my most used bass. I then built a 5 string headless, using Status Graphite hardware and Kent Armstrong pickups.
My most crazy bass was inspired by Steve Lawson, who suggested I built a 7 string headless...back when no made them. In fact, I'm pretty sure I was the first. The top headpiece, I had to get custom made. These days I can buy these from Hipshot off the shelf...how things have changed!
I'm currently finishing a 6 string, which I stopped building a long time ago and it's progressing nicely. I'm also re-starting a 6 string bolt on which is heavily influenced by G&L / Lakland / MTD basses. It'll have a single Jazz pickup and a split coil humbucker from Bartolini. That lot will probably keep my busy for the next year or so. But it's just occurred to me that I don't have a P bass anywhere...so maybe I'll start designing my next 4 string around that concept.
My inspiration for building basses came from 2 particular basses, one was a candy green G&L LS1500 which stole my heart and the other was a Peter Scott Hammerhead 5 string bass, which I saw in the now defunct Bassist magazine. I couldn't afford either but I was curious how their different design concepts effected their tone. I then bought Melvyn Hiscox book "How to make your Electric Guitar" and then set about learning about building my own basses.
I've catalogued most of my builds here:
http://www.gmcbasses.co.uk/
- Jun 28, 2005
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Hello to “you all”
My name is Rocky McDougall and I live in San Antonio, Texas.
I’ve been “fixin” stuff for at least 65 years. I started playing steel guitar in 1948 and switched to bass in 1960. If you are trying to pinpoint my age, I’m 75.
I have been actively repairing, refinishing and modifying guitars and basses for about 20 years. My true love is Fender basses. I have probably owned close to 100 over the years.
After retirement in 2003 I set up a workshop in my garage and started doing Luthier work rather seriously. About 3 years ago, I developed a strong desire to build a very special bass that would encompass everything I had ever learned, to make the very best instrument I was capable of creating. Tone and playability were at the top of the list.
I had no desire to build exotic looking instruments with fabulous woods and wild contours. I concentrated on every aspect of bass construction that had an effect on the tone and playability. My product can be seen on my website along with an explanation of it’s components and construction.
I have always enjoyed Talk Bass but tried to limit my posts to helping others solve problems and pass on my many years of experience.
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My name is Rocky McDougall and I live in San Antonio, Texas.
I’ve been “fixin” stuff for at least 65 years. I started playing steel guitar in 1948 and switched to bass in 1960. If you are trying to pinpoint my age, I’m 75.
I have been actively repairing, refinishing and modifying guitars and basses for about 20 years. My true love is Fender basses. I have probably owned close to 100 over the years.
After retirement in 2003 I set up a workshop in my garage and started doing Luthier work rather seriously. About 3 years ago, I developed a strong desire to build a very special bass that would encompass everything I had ever learned, to make the very best instrument I was capable of creating. Tone and playability were at the top of the list.
I had no desire to build exotic looking instruments with fabulous woods and wild contours. I concentrated on every aspect of bass construction that had an effect on the tone and playability. My product can be seen on my website along with an explanation of it’s components and construction.
I have always enjoyed Talk Bass but tried to limit my posts to helping others solve problems and pass on my many years of experience.
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Manton Customs
UK Luthier
Just thought I would introduce myself as I'm now sharing a build here and have been a reader of this forum for what must be 10 years.
I run a small business building electric guitars and basses. We build from with all types of woods, but love to build with timbers native to the UK. There is a timber here for every use from fingerboard to body but they are seldom used, perhaps due to tradition. We are also happy to build with the more traditional woods as you can see below.
We are based near Ludlow in Shropshire England and my personal passion is the bass guitar, being a bass player in a local band. I have included a couple of pictures below of previous work and you can find our build thread here http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/m...-sirius-4-string-32-scale-bass-build-1055249/.
Titan 5 string bass:
Archon 4 string bass, built with all British woods:
I look forward to posting more on this forum and hope to see you there!
I run a small business building electric guitars and basses. We build from with all types of woods, but love to build with timbers native to the UK. There is a timber here for every use from fingerboard to body but they are seldom used, perhaps due to tradition. We are also happy to build with the more traditional woods as you can see below.
We are based near Ludlow in Shropshire England and my personal passion is the bass guitar, being a bass player in a local band. I have included a couple of pictures below of previous work and you can find our build thread here http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/m...-sirius-4-string-32-scale-bass-build-1055249/.
Titan 5 string bass:
Archon 4 string bass, built with all British woods:
I look forward to posting more on this forum and hope to see you there!
Manton Customs
UK Luthier
Greetings all,
My name is Pete. My nic in real life is Scoops so I'll respond to either.
The kids are gone and looking forward to retirement in about 6 years to 7 years.
In my early life I was able to support myself as a musician. My typical day was to go to the local music store and I taught guitar, bass, and banjo. From there, I run over to one of the local establishments where we were the house band. I was probably playing 6 nites a week on average. I did get a chance to go on the road, but I never made the big time
In the late 70's when the economy got real bad, I went back to school to get another degree (My first degree was a Bachelor of Music), in electronic design. I got a job as an Electroic Designer, went on to be a System Administrator, then a Programmer Analyst, then a Business Systems Analyst, and now I'm a Project Manager.
I've played in local bands most of my life, but only just recently have I moved to playing bass as my main instrument. I ran the KVR Audio music contest for 5 years. I have a pretty nice DAW, and some really nice Mic's (I worked at Shure for 5 years), and done alot of collaborating with other musicians around the world. I am now in a couple different bands and playing on average, twice a week.
About 15 years ago I got feed up with the rising costs of quality musical instruments, so I decided to teach myself how to make guitars, basses, electric violins, and tube guitar amps. I did this all through the school of hard knocks, and with the help of the internet
I just recently found this site, and I am truly impressed with the quantity, and yes, quality of the information here.
Cheers!!!
Oh, here are my main basses
My name is Pete. My nic in real life is Scoops so I'll respond to either.
The kids are gone and looking forward to retirement in about 6 years to 7 years.
In my early life I was able to support myself as a musician. My typical day was to go to the local music store and I taught guitar, bass, and banjo. From there, I run over to one of the local establishments where we were the house band. I was probably playing 6 nites a week on average. I did get a chance to go on the road, but I never made the big time
In the late 70's when the economy got real bad, I went back to school to get another degree (My first degree was a Bachelor of Music), in electronic design. I got a job as an Electroic Designer, went on to be a System Administrator, then a Programmer Analyst, then a Business Systems Analyst, and now I'm a Project Manager.
I've played in local bands most of my life, but only just recently have I moved to playing bass as my main instrument. I ran the KVR Audio music contest for 5 years. I have a pretty nice DAW, and some really nice Mic's (I worked at Shure for 5 years), and done alot of collaborating with other musicians around the world. I am now in a couple different bands and playing on average, twice a week.
About 15 years ago I got feed up with the rising costs of quality musical instruments, so I decided to teach myself how to make guitars, basses, electric violins, and tube guitar amps. I did this all through the school of hard knocks, and with the help of the internet
I just recently found this site, and I am truly impressed with the quantity, and yes, quality of the information here.
Cheers!!!
Oh, here are my main basses
I'm living in NY and lived in MD before. My English is not perfect but good enough to read and write.
I played bass in a blues and rock band a long time ago. My passion is building basses, guitars and cigar box guitars. Most of them are made of reclaimed material, drift wood and cheap hardware.
You'll find exaples of my projects here ► http://www.talkbass.com/threads/hardwood-floor-bass.1076502/
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Hey all!
I'm new to this specific forum, but have been a member of several others for some time now.
My dayjob is that of a Helical CNC operator/programer/tool designer..guy.
Basically I work for a company that designs and manufactures high end solid carbide endmills and drills for the tool and die industry. We sell in pretty much every field imaginable, auto, aviation, medical, tool+die, as well as small stuff like circuit board milling, etching, engraving, lathe tools.
Pretty much:
I make the things that make all the other things.
But my passion is with my Guitar company, and i have started to dabble in furniture making as well. I'm one of the bass players at my church, and i can't wait to share some bass builds with everyone.
I'm new to this specific forum, but have been a member of several others for some time now.
My dayjob is that of a Helical CNC operator/programer/tool designer..guy.
Basically I work for a company that designs and manufactures high end solid carbide endmills and drills for the tool and die industry. We sell in pretty much every field imaginable, auto, aviation, medical, tool+die, as well as small stuff like circuit board milling, etching, engraving, lathe tools.
Pretty much:
I make the things that make all the other things.
But my passion is with my Guitar company, and i have started to dabble in furniture making as well. I'm one of the bass players at my church, and i can't wait to share some bass builds with everyone.
hello, wow, there is so much talent on here. that is awesome.
My name is John Toon. age 36.
I am a network center tech for at&t for 13 years.
married for 3 years and divorced two years ago.
I have a beautiful little 2 y/o daughter.
My bass building obsession began 9 years ago, I have 22 basses/guitars under my belt and about 20 whamola's sold. I would love to go full time building but that doesn't pay the bills yet. But, building is my passion and that is what I'll do when I retire. I also have turned a few bowls, made a few wooden boxes and also made a few of klipsch belle replica speakers.
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My name is John Toon. age 36.
I am a network center tech for at&t for 13 years.
married for 3 years and divorced two years ago.
I have a beautiful little 2 y/o daughter.
My bass building obsession began 9 years ago, I have 22 basses/guitars under my belt and about 20 whamola's sold. I would love to go full time building but that doesn't pay the bills yet. But, building is my passion and that is what I'll do when I retire. I also have turned a few bowls, made a few wooden boxes and also made a few of klipsch belle replica speakers.
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Hello!
I´ve registed in this forum some years ago but now I´ve decided to participate more because lately I found myself always ending here when searching bass stuff.
My name is Ricardo and I´m from Portugal. Currently I own 2 basses. A Squier Jazz Bass with active seymour duncan pickus and a IBanez Ex Series with a fretless (no lines) neck. I can post pictures of the two "toys" later.
I prety much stated playing bass because I love the percursive sound it can make. I don´t have a band or a music project. I´m just a guy who enjoys playing bass.
I´ve registed in this forum some years ago but now I´ve decided to participate more because lately I found myself always ending here when searching bass stuff.
My name is Ricardo and I´m from Portugal. Currently I own 2 basses. A Squier Jazz Bass with active seymour duncan pickus and a IBanez Ex Series with a fretless (no lines) neck. I can post pictures of the two "toys" later.
I prety much stated playing bass because I love the percursive sound it can make. I don´t have a band or a music project. I´m just a guy who enjoys playing bass.
Wow Jay, that's cool! This all started for me cause my pastor wanted me to play bass for the church band! I'm reading everyone's stories and preparing to add mine to the end of this list.
Hello fellow TBers! First I want to say "what a nice organized site"! Definitely the cleanest forum I've been on!
My name is Ryan Martin. I'm a full-time designer/luthier and co founder of Becker Guitars & Martian Basses. I was born and raised in northern Maine and have been woodworking and playing musical instruments since before I could remember. In high school I merged my woodworking and musical interests by building my first bass. It didn't take long to realize that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
I've had numerous woodworking jobs over the years. I got to learn my exotic woods working for an exotic lumber dealer while in high school. Around the same time I placed 2nd in the nation at the 1995 VICA cabinetmaking competition, that was nice! From there I moved on to cabinetmaking then furniture making, the whole time collecting tools and lumber for my true passion, luthiery.
In 2006 I ventured from my homeland to join forces with Dan Becker of Becker Guitars. We set up shop in Attleboro Massachusetts as Becker Guitars & Ryan Martin Basses. Since then we have been building up our line and promoting ourselves by meeting up with professional artists and getting them to play our instruments. At some point we got big enough that Martin Guitar Company lawyers sent us a 'cease and desist' letter stating legal action would be taken if we continued using the word Martin in our company name. Partially flattered, partially crushed we decided to drop the Ryan (which I'd used all along to differentiate myself from the existing Martin Guitar Company) and changed Martin to Martian resulting in 'Becker Guitars & Martian Basses' as our company name. Check us out!
Aside from my work with BGMB I enjoy collecting, restoring and noodling on vintage ukulele's, banjo's and mandolins. I play bass in a local band, I'm nocturnal and when I have to go anywhere I get there on a 1978 Peugeot moped that I restored and customized just a little bit.
I'm looking forward to interacting with all of you. I think I'm gonna do some of that right now!
Keller Williams, Ryan Martian, Gathering of the Vibes founder, Dan Becker & Mihali Savoulidis (of Twiddle)
My name is Ryan Martin. I'm a full-time designer/luthier and co founder of Becker Guitars & Martian Basses. I was born and raised in northern Maine and have been woodworking and playing musical instruments since before I could remember. In high school I merged my woodworking and musical interests by building my first bass. It didn't take long to realize that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
I've had numerous woodworking jobs over the years. I got to learn my exotic woods working for an exotic lumber dealer while in high school. Around the same time I placed 2nd in the nation at the 1995 VICA cabinetmaking competition, that was nice! From there I moved on to cabinetmaking then furniture making, the whole time collecting tools and lumber for my true passion, luthiery.
In 2006 I ventured from my homeland to join forces with Dan Becker of Becker Guitars. We set up shop in Attleboro Massachusetts as Becker Guitars & Ryan Martin Basses. Since then we have been building up our line and promoting ourselves by meeting up with professional artists and getting them to play our instruments. At some point we got big enough that Martin Guitar Company lawyers sent us a 'cease and desist' letter stating legal action would be taken if we continued using the word Martin in our company name. Partially flattered, partially crushed we decided to drop the Ryan (which I'd used all along to differentiate myself from the existing Martin Guitar Company) and changed Martin to Martian resulting in 'Becker Guitars & Martian Basses' as our company name. Check us out!
Aside from my work with BGMB I enjoy collecting, restoring and noodling on vintage ukulele's, banjo's and mandolins. I play bass in a local band, I'm nocturnal and when I have to go anywhere I get there on a 1978 Peugeot moped that I restored and customized just a little bit.
I'm looking forward to interacting with all of you. I think I'm gonna do some of that right now!
Hello, I'm Theo... from Salem Oregon
Father of 3 (boys)
Single
47
Retired/disabled
Former Commercial Fisherman (8yrs)
Current owner of Chronicle Guitars
Creator of the reality based show "Against the Grain" about independent Luthiers currently in development
Started building guitars and basses out of anger (long story)
Continued out of love and joy
Father of 3 (boys)
Single
47
Retired/disabled
Former Commercial Fisherman (8yrs)
Current owner of Chronicle Guitars
Creator of the reality based show "Against the Grain" about independent Luthiers currently in development
Started building guitars and basses out of anger (long story)
Continued out of love and joy
