HERE ARE SOME PROTOTYPES... (scroll down to see more)

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P-00, the concept drawing...
More completed photos! Construction photos
P-00 (Pre-Prototype)  30 inch scale fretted 4-string. Neck-thru of Flame maple/Karelian Birch, Flamed Ash and Quilt Maple body, ebony fretboard, original custom hardware.

This was a design exercise, to make a bass that would fit in a molded strat case. (To fit in the trunk of a certain little sports car!) Now slapping up a storm in New Orleans, LA
 

 

 

 

 

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P-01, the concept drawing...
More completed photos! Construction photos
P-01 (1st Prototype)  34 inch scale fretted 4-string. Neck-thru of Flame maple/Purpleheart, mahogany body with Bubble Quilt maple top and back, Continuous wood covers, Ebony fretboard with violet Fiber Optic side dots, Custom Chernishev humbuckers with Ebony covers.

 

 

 

 

 


 

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P-02, the concept drawing...
More completed photos! Construction photos
P-02 (2nd Prototype)  32 inch scale fretted 4-string. Neck-thru of Flame maple/Purpleheart, Myrtle body with Flame maple top and Flame Mahogany back, Continuous wood covers, Cocobolo fretboard, Custom Chernishev humbuckers with Ebony covers.

Commissioned for Bas Remans of MILLIONAIRE, he asked me to design a bass that was a "cross between an EKO 700 and a Mockingbird"...

 

 

 


 

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P-03, the concept drawing...
More completed photos! Construction photos
P-03 (3rd Prototype)  35 inch scale lined fretless 4-string. Neck-thru of Flame maple/Purpleheart, mahogany body with Bocote and Bubinga top, Continuous wood covers, ebony fingerboard with 3-D pearl block markers, Custom Chernishev single-coils with Ebony covers.

Commissioned for Peter Dolsky (Russia's busiest session player), he was browsing through 20 or 30 'out-takes' from my P-02 body design session, and siezed upon this...


 

 

 

 

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P-04 *Currently on the drawing board*
   
Secret Project!! ( for the moment)
 
 
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P-05, the concept drawing... 
More completed photos! Construction photos
P-05 (5th Prototype)  34 inch scale fretted 8-string (octave-strung). 7-piece Neck-thru of Flame maple/Maccassar Ebony with Vermillion accents, mahogany body with Flamed Birdseye Burl maple top and flame maple back with matching headstock facings, Continuous wood covers, 24-fret Ebony fretboard with blue Fiber Optic side dots. Chernishev custom-wound wide-range humbuckers with Ebony covers, Active EQ system.

Based on designs for Roger Smith (refining his pencil sketch spin on Entwistle's "Buzzard") 
 
 
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P-06, an early concept drawing... <a name="1">
Completed Photos! Construction photos
P-06 (6th Prototype)  34 inch scale fretted 15-string SLEDGEHAMMER (octave-strung, 5 sets of 3!) Mahogany body with Quilted Maple Top, graphite-reinforced Wenge neck-thru, ebony fretboard with sterling silver dot markers and lighted (fiber-optic) sterling silver side dots. DIP switches in control cavity allow a choice of 5 different side dot colors, and the 12th fret dots have their own independent color selection! Transparent black-burst lacquer finish overall (except for the back of the neck - which is oiled), quilted maple headstock cap with sterling silver SLEDGE HAMMER headstock inlay, and Sterling silver "RA-001" inlaid into back of headstock, Active pickups, active EQ, custom-made hardware...
Based on an Original design by Rob Anderson.

 

 

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P-07, the concept drawing...
Completed photos! Construction photos

P-07 (Our 7th and FINAL Prototype) Electric Bass Guitar with extra "piccolo" C string

  • Carved, Chambered Body of Mahogany, Walnut, and flame maple.
  • "Burgundy Violin-burst" polished nitro lacquer finish.
  • Set neck (3-piece laminate of figured sapele)
  • AAAAA burl maple headstock facing, front and back
  • Fretboard of premium FIGURED COCOBOLO with Mother-of-Pearl dot inlays.
  • Truss rod cover and rear cavity covers made of AAAAA burl maple.
  • Dual truss rods for finer adjustment of playing action.
  • Schaller strap locks
  • Petrified Siberian Wooley Mammoth Ivory nut (20,000 years old!)
  • ALEMBIC AXY noise-cancelling pickup (1984 vintage)
  • ALEMBIC low pass filter circuit (1984 vintage)
  • Master volume and Alembic filter control have black buffalo horn knobs
  • Machine heads are gearless Steinberger.
  • 32" scale length, 21 frets clear of the body.
  • Fiber Optic Side dots that light up automatically when you plug in the instrument!
  • Side dots have contrasting wood bezels, so they are clearly visible even when switched off.
  • Side dots are on a completely separate battery than the Alembic electronics.
    (bass has two 9-Volt batteries inside the battery cavity).
  • Battery cavity is separate from main control cavity.

SIDE DOTS

Fiber Optic side dots (at all marker positons) have VARIABLE COLOR, so you can change their color to suit your mood!! Color is selectable by the six-position rotary color selector switch:

1: BYPASS
(lights off!!)
2: (red side dots)
3: (green side dots)
4: (blue side dots)
5: (violet side dots)
6: (aqua side dots)

 
"PRE-SERIAL" CUSTOM ORDERS:

More completed photos! Construction photos
ME-0001 (pre-prototype for Marcus Eriksson, Sweden)  35 inch scale fretless 5-string.Neck-thru of Flame maple/Purpleheart, Figured Myrtle body with Flamed Birdseye Spalted maple top, Continuous wood covers, Ebony fretboard with Mammoth ivory inlay. Custom wooden knobs...