Acknowledgements

Thanks to those at Herman Miller who financed this project (and lent me the digital camera), to my amazing wife, who never once suggested spending the money on something sensible, to Ray at Vintage and Prestige Guitars (of blessed memory), but most of all, thanks to Phillip Smyth for building me this lovely instrument, and being prepared to make something that was exactly what I wanted.<p>

The instruments pictured here have also all played a part: from left to right:

My Brandoni bass (cobbled together from Eko bits, but sounding surprisingly good) which taught me how much fun an acoustic bass can be, and give me the idea for the low D.
The remains of a 1964 Burns bass, which offered up its one remaining functional feature (the tuning heads) which I pinched for the new bass, as they're good and light, which helps the balance.
The Hohner Steinberger copy which taught me that re-designing an instrument from first principles can be a very good idea
And the Westone bass that made the Ultimate Sacrifice and was traded in to help with the financing.

And in the end...

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