The Wolf

This is the first one that I made that has all Warmoth parts. This bass has a smaller body than most of my other basses. It is all mahogany. The back of the neck is walnut and the fingerboard is bloodwood, which is my favorite fingerboard wood. It’s also called satine. Bloodwood is that dark red in color and it’s very dense with a smooth feel.

The Mermaid

The Mermaid was originally a Fender Squier body, and I put a Warmoth neck on it. There were two or three basses that I bought as Fender Squire, mostly for the body, and then took the neck off and changed it to a fretless Warmoth. Squire is a cheap version of Fender's body that were first made in Japan and then they moved to China and Indonesia because of manufacturing costs.

Buns

This one is a five string. The body is one I equipped from a Fender Squire, the only work I did was to put in the pickups, the wiring and I changed the neck. What you're doing on a bass that you're not gonna use the neck on is you tap on the body to hear what kind of resonance there is. There's a certain depth that you get with some woods when you knock on them. You can hear how much low resonance there is. I call this one Buns (see the vintage pin up sticker). Once again, it's got the stacked volume and tone dials. It’s got the original jazz bass type controls, volume in the middle and tone on the outside. I played this one with the Jerry Miller Band and with Keith Greeninger.

The Redneck

The Redneck has a satine (or bloodwood) finger board which has a really smooth feel to it. The top of this bass is koa with an ash back. I played it with Keith Greeninger three different times. This bass just feels good to play.

Triple Threat

The body on Triple Threat is mahogany with an ebony finger board with a bloodwood back.There's no tone controls on this one. She has three pickups instead of two. You get the tone by mixing and matching the output of the three pickups. I’ve been playing this one for at least five years and it's a very loud bass. It's loud because it has three pickups and it's lower pitched because of the mahogany. The neck pickup is an old Gibson pickup. And Gibson pickups are known for being really loud and easily distortable. That's what Jack Bruce the bass player for Cream used to use. The second pickup, the one in the middle, is a Precision pickup. The third pickup is a DiMarzio. If I know I'm going to play a loud night with a loud band, Triple threat is the bass I take with me.

Blondie

Blondie is one piece of korina, it’s very light and has a similar tonal quality like mahogany. It's not that heavy. And the neck is maple.Gibson used to make their Flying V guitars out of korina. They don't even have a korina where they can make a one-piece body out of it anymore. They have a limited supply of korina, so I was really lucky to get a full-body korina. There is one DiMarzio jazz pickup and one precision pickup. Sometimes I wanted a jazz type tone so I put the jazz bass pick up near the bridge. I usually keep it off, but when I want to mellow the tone a bit from the precision pick up, I would turn on the jazz pickup. And it makes the sound of the low notes a little less harsh.

Boss Tone Blackie

The reason I started building basses is because each one of them sounds different. Boss Tone Blackie is closest to my ideal, if not my ideal. This one is my favorite, it has the perfect tone for anything. I was born in the 40s and there used to be this radio show which was a detective drama called Boston Blackie and Boston Blackberry was the name of the detective. I like word plays and remembered this show from when I was a kid, and that’s how Boss Tone Blackie got its name! It’s hard to say how old this bass is, because the body is a Fender Squire body. The neck I got from Warmoth. The neck was a fretted neck before. I don't remember exactly how or when I picked that body up. But I went through three necks before I got to that one. The final neck is a walnut back with an ebony fingerboard.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate

This bass has a Warmoth body with a koa top and swamp ash back. This is the first all Warmoth bass that I put together. This photo was taken the last time I ever played at Michaels on Main Street in Soquel, CA before it closed down because of a fire in 2022. It’s a good playing and a good sounding bass.

Made for JoJo

The back of the neck is walnut with ebony on the fingerboard. The top is padauk with a swamp ash back and a jazz body. I made it with a three-quarter sized neck because JoJo is so tiny!