The Woodshed
The WoodShed-Carey Nordstrand
No Stranger to the bass world, Carey Nordstrand has caught attention around the world as a premiere luthier. Attracted to creating instruments and woodworking in general, Carey has been building beautiful basses full time since 2002. BPU:What motivated you to begin building such beautiful instruments? CN:Like a lot of guitar builders I mainly just wanted to have a nice... Read More »
The Woodshed – Sheldon Dingwall
Floppy, weak, unresponsive. These words easily come to mind when describing the low B string of most 5 string basses. With the aid of innovative methods, Sheldon Dingwall, Canadian builder extraordinaire, triumphed where others have failed: Building 5 string without compromises. Bass Players United caught up with Sheldon, and his craft. BPU:What motivated you to begin building instruments? SD:I’m... Read More »
Interview: Alusonic Aluminum Instruments
In 2010 Andrea “Polly” Pollice started building Aluminum bass guitars. Putting in endless hours of sound research on this project, Alusonic has become a house hold name. We caught up with Andrea on how he started building Aluminum guitars. Q:Can you tell us where did idea of making aluminum instruments came from? A:I played bass guitar in a pop/rock... Read More »
Tao Guitars
Tao Guitars – the marriage of beauty and function In the world of guitar techs, a young craftsman will invariably start working on other people’s guitars and repairing them with a mind to someday build his own; few ever get that far. The rarified few who do invariably start building by mimicking that which has gone before; in the... Read More »
The Woodshed- Adamovic Basses
Like most of us bass players, Nikola Adamovic found some serious problems with the first bass guitar he owned. “My first bass was a used, medium-priced bass that didn’t sound very good and had terrible ergonomics. It was heavy and had a terrible neck dive,” Adamovic recalls. “I had backaches after playing the bass for a couple of hours.”... Read More »
The Woodshed- Tino Tedesco Basses
“I have always been fascinated by the principle usually associated with architecture and design stating that form follows function,” Swiss bass builder Tino Tedesco declares on the first page of his website. “My main goal in the last ten years has been to offer outstanding instruments that stay true to this statement.” Tino Tedesco first came to bass guitar... Read More »
The WoodShed- Javier López- JanAid Guitars
An exclusive interview with Javier Lopez owner and luthier of JanAid Guitars. Read More »
