Big Wu is packed to the brim with bling. It is head to toe covered in gold hardware, crushed turquoise, and paua abalone inlays, including a hand-cut third eye at the first fret.
Evan Kincaid (formerly of Pleasant Drive) commissioned this bass, which he later named Big Wu because of the shape created by the bark on the butt end of the burl top. We decided to make this a feature by making the body shape match, rather than filling the void.
Big Wu was my first extended range bass and the first to receive my tapered neck stringer design.
Specs
- String count: 5
- Top wood: Buckeye Burl
- Body wood: African Mahogany
- Fretboard: East Indian Rosewood, with Ebony binding
- Neck wood: Maple with Makore veneers
- Neck thru
- 35″ scale
- 24 frets
- String thru body
- Paua abalone inlays on fretboard
- Crushed turquoise filling the bark pockets/voids in the burl
- Hipshot FM3 A-style brass bridge
- Gotoh tuners
- Gold evo jumbo frets
- Bartolini 59JI pickup set
- Bartolini HR 5.4AP/918 preamp/EQ harness
Built in 2015
