Dlog

(original bass blog here)
The suitcase bass has been in active testing for about 4 months now. I play it in Cicada Omega, and a jazzy trio called Dizzynest, and with Daisy Hill, an old-timey-country-bluegrass quartet, (bass, acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle.) The bass sounds great in all three contexts.
There were and still are some kinks […]

I am making an electric upright bass out of a vintage suitcase. It will be a beautiful blues machine with a real 3/4 sized upright neck attached to the suitcase. I have two soap-bar bass pick-ups for it, am customizing a floating bridge and shaping my own fretless finger board. I am cutting f-holes into […]