Available Woods

I'm always looking for unique woods for tops, bodies, and fingerboards and when I find a set or unique piece of wood I buy it even though I don't bass planned for it yet. Often, I may not decide on the rest of the woods to go with it for quite some time, as I wait for just the right combination of woods and patterns to fall into place that just stands out. Here are some of the woods for figured tops and others that I currently have available. If one strikes your fancy please don't hesitate to contact me about it for your next bass!

NOTE: I will only hold woods without a deposit for a bass for 30 days. If after 30 days I have not received a deposit for a bass with the woods selected and put on hold for that customer, I will relist the woods as available, and will not put them on hold for that customer again until an additional 90 days has past. I reserve the right at any time to refuse to put woods on hold due to additional customer demands, market availability of certain woods, pricing, or too many requests from the same customer to put woods on hold without recieving any deposit.

Figured Top Sets



Spalted Curly Rock Maple and Fingerboard set 2
Another Spalted
Curly Rock Maple
and matching stabilized fingeboard set, cut
from the same long!		 Wild Maple
Nice "Wild Maple"
set, which has some quilt, flame, and burl figuring in it		 Birdseye Zebrawood
Birdseye Zebrawood,
I have the matching headstock
overlay piece		 Crotch Cherry
A nice Crotch
Cherry set		 Crotch Cherry, alt view
Same Crotch Cherry set, just looking at it from the other end
Flamed Walnut
Flamed Walnut set
with nice colors		 Crotch Walnut set 1
Crotch Walnut set 1		 Crotch Walnut set 2
Crotch Walnut set 2		 Buckeye Burl
Nice set of Buckeye Burl!		 Spalted Maple Set 2
Another beautiful
set of Spalted Maple!
Dark Spalted Maple
Dark Spalted Maple
I had two matching
sets of these and already built a bass with one of them, so here is what it would look like on a finished bass!

 Flamed Maple
Nice Flamed Maple set. Not quite long enough to completely cover the top of my basses, so I will have to offset it a bit as pictured

 Flamed Oak, uncut
Flamed Oak, great colors! Still need to resaw it in half for a bookmatched set		 Lacewood Burl
Very rare Lacewood Burl set!		 Leopard Wood, uncut
Beautiful Leopard
wood set, also need
to resaw it in half for
a bookmatched set
Quilted Maple
Very nice Quilted
Maple Set		 Spalted Beech set 1
Beautiful Spalted
Beech, I love the freckles in it!		 Spalted Beech set 2
Another gorgeous Spalted Beech set. Not quite wide enough to cover the entire top of the bass, so the neck would have to show through, although it is long enough for two sets!

 Spalted Beech set 2, alt view
Spalted Beech set
#2, viewed from
the other end		 Spalted Curly Rock Maple and Fingerboard set 1
Spalted Curly Rock Maple and matching stabilized fingerboard
set 1
Buckeye Burl Set 2
A nice set of Buckeye Burl		 Buckey Burl set 3
Buckeye Burl set 3
This set is not wide enough to cover the entire top of the bass,
so the neck would
either have to show through. It did come with a third piece, so I could cover the neck with a third piece for a 3 piece top		 Buckeye Burl set 3, alternate set
Buckeye Burl set 3. This set came with 3 pieces, so this is an alternate set if less bark inclusions
are desired.		    




Fingerboards

I've got more fingerboards, and will get those pics up shortly...

Spalted curly rock maple fingerboard
Here's the spalted curly rock maple fingerboard to go with the spalted curly rock maple top set above		 Spalted curly rock maple fingerboard, closeup
... and a closeup view of the spalted curly rock maple fingerboard