Construction of AV Basses
The AV Basses instruments are available in these mensures: 32, 34, 35 and 36 " and multiscale, that is instruments with changing scale due to fanned frets. The structure of the instrument can basically fall into one of the two categories: with bolt…
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Resonant woods
When building instruments, I use many kinds of resonance woods. Combining carefully chosen decorative structures of resonance woods can lead to exclusive visual results and very rich sound possibilities. I use the following kinds of wood for the body:…
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Hardware of the instrument consists of the bridge, tuners, ferrulles, knobs, mini switches, pickguard, all screws and strings. Standard colors of hardware are chrome, silver, black or gold. It is also possible to use Ruthenium / Cosmo black (dark, almost…
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Pickups and electronics
The AV Basses instruments are equipped with passive and active electronics. Passive electronics means simple wiring of pickups to potentiometers of volume and the so called tone control into the output jack. Active electronics means adding a small…
Read MoreSurface finish
The surface treatment of the instrument is the final finish of it. The bass guitar can be varnished or treated with oil and wax. The varnished instrument could have high gloss or satin matt finish. Neutral color means that the wood is clean, not dyed…
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Colour shades
Choose your favourite colour. You can choose from standard solid colours, see thru lacquers in high glossy or satin matt or metallic colours or sunbursts. Or simply request you desired colour.
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Some customers like to have a special symbol or a part that completes the appearance of their bass. It could be their signature of some sort of sign or graphic depiction of their favorite picture or symbol. I can build these custom-made graphic elements…
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