Charlie Jones perspex bass

Charlie Jones came to Crimson Guitars in order to create his new unique custom perspex signature bass guitar.  The original idea was to replicate his original perspex bass, this we managed… in the process we lightened the instrument by a good 10lbs.  Most perspex guitars and basses are slab bodied and very very heavy, at Crimson Guitars we love a challenge and taught ourselves how to carve the material by hand, as you can see it looks amazing.

 We had the Perspex cast with pearlescent glitter suspended throughout to create an interesting effect under lights and the clear cast pickup was created for us by the genius’ at Wizard Pickups.  Charlie prefers an un-sullied magnetic tones that allow the phenomenal tone of the perspex to sing through.. and perspex really does sound great, just listen to Goldfrapp to hear for yourself.

 

body	neck	hardware	electronics
solid carved perspex with suspended pearlescent glitter	maple and walnut multi-laminate neck with a perspex headstock	lightweight gotoh tuners	bespoke clear-cast pickup
ergonomic body contouring	bolt on neck design	gotoh bridge	single volume pot and single tone control
light-weight (for perspex!) due to carving	indian rosewood fretboard	chrome hardware	pickup direct mounted to body for better tone transfer
all access neck to body carve	20 jumbo frets	dual action truss rod
	compound fretboard radius
	34″ scale length
	aluminium dot inlays
	c carve neck shape