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pátek 26. prosince 2014

AVBPJ5 in Vintage White/Nitrocellulose lacquer. 

Bass features Nordstrand P/J pickups, Hipshot hardware 
with Tortoise pick guard and stacked knobs for each pickup. 

Wood used for the body is Alder. 

Neck woods are Rosewood for fretboard with Pearl dots and Hard Maple. 
Matching headstock in high glossy finish with Satin Matt on the back side of the neck.









Latest bass with beautiful Serbian Walnut top and Birdseye Maple fretboard. 

This bass features 35" scale, Maple/Wenge neck with Ash back and superb Nordstrand Pickups Dualcoils along with Nordstrand active electronics and Hipshot Products Inc hardware. 

Based on Michael Krasny's bass shape with longer scale this bass reproduce bass frequencies with clarity and you can clearly hear how strings vibrate.

Personally I like the look of lacquered Birdseye Maple fretboard compared to Satin Matt on the rest of the bass. Pearl dots makes your orientation easier (if you prefer to have them on the fretboard) and together with side Pearl dots in Rosewood binding glows in the darker stages.







Merry Christmas to all my friends and fans.

úterý 28. října 2014

One of the latest basses I made is AVBS singlecut shape in a 6 string version.

This bass follows 2 basses I made in past and shares almost the same construction and wood configuration.
The top used for all of these basses is Spalted Birch from Czech Republic.  I got this wood from my fellow colleague woodworker who thought that it could be good for my basses. It is a very fancy wood and spalting figure is so nice and unique. You can find nice woods in Czech Republic for basses too!


All of these basses came with Aguilar OBP-3 preamp.
I've changed pickups and preamp on first of these 3 basses to EMG's DC40's and Glockenklang preamp which fits perfect to this bass. It has European Walnut back and bass has nicely defined low range. Other two basses have Mahogany as back wood and they sound more detailed in midrange with better defined harmonics and warm growl if both pickups are on.

First bass featured Hipshot gold hardware and I think that black or cosmo black fits much better to light wood than gold hardware.



This 6 string has Bartolini humbuckers with small 3 way switch for splitting coils as series/single/parallel and really makes change to a tone. You can find your tone there.








neděle 17. srpna 2014

AVBS5 bass I made recently for Roman Hašek (Prague).



The bass features beautiful Claro Walnut top with Rosewood layer and AAA Curly Maple back.
The neck of the bass is made of Wenge/Bubinga lamination and 36" scale Ziricote fretboard what makes it truly exquisite. Brass nut and Hipshot bridge helps sustain and tone to be piano like.






The bass can sound very even and precise in low range and can articulate well. Nordstrand Dualcoils and Nordstrand active electronics support its modern sound. These pickups are really top end in bass guitar world.

More pictures at avbasses.com website soon.

středa 7. května 2014

AVB1 made for Petr Hloušek. Spalted Maple top with Mahogany layer and Alder back.
Mother of Pearl block on Ebony fretboard.
Bass features EMG DC-X pickups , Hipshot hardware and Elixir strings.
On the headstock of the bass is Cocobolo/Mother of Pearl inlay designed by Petr Hloušek.





úterý 6. května 2014

Today I received leather straps made directly for use with my basses.
2 basic colours and 2 colours of stitching. Personally I dig black with gold stitching. No, silver stitching. No, both :-)
These straps are well and Czech made with AV Basses logo and are adjustable for various lengths.
It is possible use them with both standard strap pins and strap lock systems.

Email me for prices and availability.





pondělí 28. dubna 2014

Juraj Griglák testing AVBJ5


Krátký klip s ukázkou AVBJ5 basy, kterou si přijel vyzkoušet Juraj Griglák. Juraj je známý a zkušený slovenský basista, určitě mnoho z vás zná jeho sólovou desku Bass Friends. Dostal jsem ji jako dárek ;-)