Saturday, August 26, 2006




The Steve DiEva bass is almost ready for finish. Here's a couple of pics showing the bass prior to fretting. Note the upper horns dual contour (I love the look, I see more basses with this style in the future). We'll have more pics of this puppy after the first couple coats of finish go on.

Sunday, August 06, 2006


Here's a rough draft of the final look of the Wedge. There are a few changes to be made but this gives you an idea.

Friday, August 04, 2006


OK this thing is starting to resemble a bass. It's almost time for the fun stuff like Wedging the body, doing inlay, carving the neck, choosing electronics, etc. We put the peghead facing of Macassar Ebony on, drilled for tuners, and put the Abalone in the headstock in preparation for the logo. We also mocked up the bass to see visually how it was coming together. We think it's coming along nicely. We put a single Lane Poor on the face, and played around with knobs, I made some "mock-up" redwood concentric knobs; there are 8 knobs on this mock up. The layout I was thinking of was vol/vol stacked knob (if I go with 2 pickups), high mids/low mids stacked knob, treble/bass stacked knob, Piezo vol/Piezo tone stacked knob, and a 3 way mini switch for magnetic pickups/both/Piezo. I like the stacked knob arrangement because it keeps the bass looking less cluttered.