The SWB-1 Standard becomes a reality!!!
VERY exciting times! I never really expected it would actually happen, but I now have in my hands the first ever SWB-1 Standard short-scale bass guitar and couldn’t be happier with it! 🙂
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So that’s what a short-scale Fender Jazz bass sounds like…
…a Fender Jazz bass!! 🙂 Sorry for posting another lesson. BUT – this is the only footage I have of my fabulous short-scale Fender Jazz ‘modern player’ bass. It does sound (to my ears) very typically Fender-Jazz, just like the big ones. My only real gripe with this bass was the lack of frets, and […]
A Short Scale FRETLESS venture…
After searching high and low for an affordable fretless bass in the UK, I decided the only route was to buy a fretted one and rip the frets out!!! 😀 I did just that and the results were so outstanding I took things a stage further and had a new ebonol fingerboard fitted, along with […]
Short Scale Stax!
Here I am doing ‘Duck Dunn’ duties on my short-scale Richwood P-bass with Steve Cropper and the Animals. I fitted the bass with a Seymour Duncan vintage re-issue pickup and Thomastik flats. Really seemed to do the trick. 🙂
The SWB-1 Custom is born!!!
After years of searching for a decent, professional short-scale bass I went ahead and designed my own. Guitar builder Brian Eastwood brought it to life recently – introducing the SWB-1 short-scale bass…