In a design derived from our small bodied PAF guitar this is one of the few Les Paul type basses that also happens to be well balanced. A lightweight spalted beech body and locally sourced flamed pearwood top combined with top quality mahogany for the through neck make for a lightweight instrument, this combined with careful carving in the Crimson Guitars workshops result in a perfect weight distribution and balance on the strap. The finish is a low gloss natural oil over a blue stained top, we also stained the pin-stripes that go through the neck and the inlay dots are hollow alloy circles with a blue abalone center.. you sense a theme here no? The electronics are simple and straight-forward, a matched pair of custom wound Wizard pickups direct-mounted to the body are passively wired through volume, tone and blend pots.. simplicity is often key when designing a custom guitar or bass and it is well rewarded here. All in all we are very proud of this visually stunning and tonally versatile custom bass guitar.
Crimson Guitars | redefining custom
| body | neck | hardware | electronics |
| spalted beech body | mahogany multi-laminate neck | lightweight gotoh tuners | bespoke wizard humbuckers |
| book-matched figured pearwood top | through-neck design | gotoh bridge | single volume pot and single tone control |
| natural oil and wax finish | indian rosewood fretboard | black hardware | three way pickup toggle selector |
| all access neck to body carve | 21 jumbo frets | dual action truss rod | pickups direct mounted to body for better tone transfer |
| flamed redwood back-plates | compound fretboard radius | ||
| ergonomic body contouring | 33″ scale length | ||
| lightweight body with perfect balance on a strap | aluminium dots with abalone center and aluminium barbed wire @ the 12th fret | ||
| custom narrow carve neck shape |