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| BIG BOTTOM |
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| this baby's got um |
While I was working at the Museum of Science in Boston doing exhibit maintenance, and the Brookline Adult Education Center
teaching the Metals Workshop, I designed and built a fretless bass. . .
The body / neck are made of Maple and walnut salvaged from old exhibits at the M.O.S.
The Pickups and electronics are EMG.
The BRIDGE is a copy of the "Steinberger System" that I "reverse engineered" .
I produced drawings, made patterns, cast parts and machined and finished them.
The bridge body is Cast Bronze with a brass cover plate. the bridge blocks are case hardened steel, the "knobs"
- knurled aluminum.
| HEADSTOCK |
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| HEAVY CAST BRONZE |
The headstock is also cast bronze.
the strings are clamped by alloy steel set screws
| HEADSTOCK |
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| DOVETAIL |
The headstock has a female dovetail that fits over and clamps onto a male dovetailed steel bar which is secured to the neck
| piano key ivory |
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| inlaid in gaboon ebony |
A very understated but beautiful detail, the ivory was fitted into 1/16' slots which were milled into the edge of the fingerboard
| function and form |
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| smooth neck body transition |
| The LEG REST |
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| ergononically contoured cast bronze |
This instrument is MASSIVE!
It has incredible rise, swell and sustain.
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