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Instruments
  • Toucan Bass
  • Flamingo Bass
  • Starling Bass
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    • Toucan Bass
    • Flamingo Bass
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    • Toucan Bass
    • Flamingo Bass
    • Starling Bass

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Where to Purchase

We are a family of musicians who enjoy building unique, innovative, playable basses.   Using our musical expertise, we create truly original basses.   Our goal is to build interesting, quirky instruments that add a touch of fun and creativity to the art of music-making

Where to Purchase

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Where to Purchase

We sell most of our basses on Reverb.   We also do custom bass and sell those direct

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Check our our Shortscales

Check our our Shortscales

We do standard 34" full scales basses but we also do all of our basses in a 30" shortscale.   We can also do left handed versions on most of our basses on request.

Handmade in the USA

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Check our our Shortscales

The Bass, Neck and pickups are all handmade in the USA.   Tuner and hardware and generall all generally sourced in the USA, Germany or Japan.

Flamingo Bass Rundown

Starling Shortscale Rundown

Note that all shortscale basses have similar electronics

Toucan Bass Rundown

Our Instruments

Toucan Bass

   Introducing the Toucan Electric Bass – Meticulously crafted with a nod to the iconic designs of the 1950s, this bass seamlessly blends vintage aesthetics with modern playability.


At the heart of the updated Vintage 50's single coil pickup in the mid and forward position. We are literally pickup forward.  This exceptional pickup system, which faithfully captures the warm, punchy tones that defined the sound of the '50s with a modern touch. The pickups deliver a rich, deep resonance that forms the cornerstone of this instrument's sonic identity. 


The body is an art form itself. Each is crafted from a unique selection of woods, stained veneers and birch plywood.  This comes in both full scale (34") and shortscale (30").  The neck is a Jbass style USA Made Musikraft neck designed for comfort, allowing for effortless navigation across the fretboard. 

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Flamingo Bass

 Introducing the Flamingo Electric Bass – Our modern offset design blends vintage aesthetics with modern playability.


This sports updated Vintage 50's single coil pickup in the mid and forward position with chrome pickup covers for a classy look. Like with the Toucan, we are literally pickup forward.  This exceptional pickup system faithfully captures the warm, round, punchy tones that defined the sound of the '50s with a modern touch. The Flamingo includes the Harpy three-way tone selector that provides different tone profiles.  Volume control for each pickup, and a parallel and serial (humbucker mode)  to easy to dial in the right sound. 


  The neck is a Jbass style (full scale), or Mustang style shortscale, USA Made Musikraft neck designed for comfort and easy playability. 

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Starling Shortscale Bass

 Introducing the Starling Shortscale Electric Bass – Our modern symmetrical design blends vintage aesthetics with modern playability 30" shortscale


This sports updated Vintage 50's single coil pickup in the forward position with chrome pickup covers for a classy look. It works in single coil (one pickup) or humbucker (two pickups).  Like with all our basses, we are literally pickup forward.  This exceptional pickup system faithfully captures the warm, round, punchy tones that defined the sound of the '50s with a modern touch. The Starling includes the Harpy three-way tone selector that provides different tone profiles. switch for single coil to humbucker mode. 


  The neck is a 30" shortscale narrow style high quality USA Made Musikraft neck designed for comfort and easy playability. 

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Kakapo Bass

 The Kakapo Electric Bass – Our modern 60's angular design blends vintage aesthetics with modern playability.


This sports updated Vintage 50's single coil pickup in the mid and forward position with chrome pickup covers for a classy look.  we are literally pickup forward.  This exceptional pickup system faithfully captures the warm, round, punchy tones that defined the sound of the '50s with a modern touch. Volume control for each pickup, and a parallel and serial (humbucker mode)  to easy to dial in the right sound. 


  The neck is a Jbass style USA Made Musikraft neck designed for comfort and easy playability. 

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