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Newtone Strings in the UK, Kalium and Octave4Plus in the US and Pyramid Strings in the EU. Surprisingly quite a few options.

The top is New Guinea ebony and epoxy.

I believe!

Thank you. It’s even better in person 😁

I’m fairly comfortable on a fretless (I have at least three other videos of me playing fretless), but these dual course fretless basses require a technique that I wasn’t able to nail before it got sent to its new owner. Intonating two different gauge strings with something as imprecise as the pad of your finger is significantly harder than you would think.

Almost. The low F# is a whole tone higher than an octave below a normal bass, which in turn is an octave below a guitar. It certainly could be tuned like a guitar but two octaves lower.

It’s surprising useful. I disagree that the low B is hard to use (especially when it has the clarity of a 39” scale 😉). I’ve used an F# tuned bass in many genres, including genres where you wouldn’t expect it to work, and it does. The Ab, A and Bb are especially useful when playing swing, big band tunes etc that are in keys written for horns.

@@Bookabass Thanks for this comment. It shines a new light on these low octaves.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

Thanks for the kind words, James!

Hold my beer, I'm going to the workshop!

Ah, the old 808 bass drum

I really wanted to put tapes on this, but it was impossible to find some for the XL scale. I even contacted Labella to see about custom strings, but the answer was no

This will be listed in Reverb.com for $2k USD delivered in the near future. This bass is B stock, as it has been played a little bit and has a couple of small scratches. Normally basses start at $2500 USD. Email me at bookabassguitars@gmail.com for more information.

168 gauge on a 39” scale

@@BookabassWow, that must be really tight.

@@SixEightSixty not as tight as you would think. The longer scale gives the perception/feel of less tension

It’s actually a huge challenge going up the neck. Paired strings of different gauges are very difficult to “fret” at the same point with the round, soft tip of a finger. This makes getting two strings intonated well very difficult. Definitely orders of magnitude harder than an unpaired fretless!

@@Bookabass Well damn, sarcasm met kindly, with information. Thank you, my low end brother 🙏✌️

That is perhaps the best compliment one of my instruments has received!

Thanks for the compliment. At this stage the pickups are wired straight to the output jack, which I quite like from a minimalistic perspective. I have a 4 way rosters switch I will be wiring in that will give series, parallel, neck pickup and off. Basically a pickup selector with an off position.

@@Bookabass I do like the minimalism, looks great.

I just counted them, and there are indeed 10 strings 😁

@@Bookabass Yes, but strings that are doubled together are called coursed instruments. The mandolin has 8 strings, but its a 4 course instrument. Yes the 12 string guitar is incorrectly labelled that way, buts its actually a 6 course guitar. A true 12 string guitar and a true 10 string bass, don't have paired strings. They have massively wide necks to accommodate the individual strings. The RMI Titan 10 string bass and Woodo B10 are 10 string basses. By calling it a 10 string, it muddies the water. Yes its common practice, but that's exactly why its so hard to get only the results you want. Take the 12 string guitar, imagine how hard it is to find and *actual* 12 string extended range guitar, with 12 individual strings. I can assure you its not easy. All because people incorrectly call a 6 course guitar a 12 string.

@@RainMakeR_Workshop your nomenclature falls on its head when you start talking a 4 course, 12 string bass and a 4 course, 8 string bass. Do you call both of them 4 course basses, or do you call one an 8 string and the other a 12 string?

@Bookabass You instinctively said already. 4 course 12 string and 4 course 8 string. If they don't specify, you assume the more common of the two. Courses are most commonly 2 strings, so if someone says its a 4 course instrument, you would assume a 4 course 8 string, unless they specify otherwise.

I like me a medium rare steak too!

I agree. That sure is a tasty sounding bass. Are you using any mod tones with it?

I absolutely do. Email me at bookabassguitars@gmail.com This instrument is available, although it would be sold as B stock as I have played it a bit

Yeah, there is a little bit. I’m far from a recording expert. This was just a quick “plug everything in and record a little jam” kinda thing.

get a life. you see this beautiful and artfully hand crafted bass and clipping is what you have to say?

@@matthewmorter7803 ...yeah? i'm listening a little more than i'm looking. i love this guys stuff and it's a shame the levels were messed up, it's smth that someone working w audio should be aware of. itd be better if it was redone with better leveling

@@jakeeeGST sure, it would be better with care taken of levels, and that is basic stuff, very basic, recording 101 stuff really, but that's not the point, this video isn't about recording quality, this is art and craftsmanship! you can do whatever you want, I just thought it was a pretty jerky thing to say. it could have been said with more constructive criticism.

@@matthewmorter7803 you can't make the craftsmanship argument when the video is titled after the tone (so assuming it's the focal point) and then mess up in the one place that's going to cause discomfort during the listen. i sorry a singular word apparently carries some kind of connotation outside of what's apparent and a problem. i have no problem with this dude

ADGC, where the low A is a tone below a normal low B.

Yep, that’s it.