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Gnarwhal Bass USA Standard Custom

Gnarwhal Bass USA Standard Custom

Regular price $2,999.00 $0.00 Unit price per

The aquatic god of frozen thunder, available as a 35" scale bass, with deluxe pearl block inlay, dual Dunable D-Bird pickups, and Hipshot hardware. Built for punchy, thick, and present bass tone, and reliable intonation and even dynamics in any tuning or string gauge. 

 

Full price is $2999 usd50% deposit required to reserve the build, and is applied to the full price. So payment schedule would be:

NOW: use code DEPOSIT at checkout to pay 50% and confirm your order. You are welcome to pay the full amount in advance if you prefer. Just don't enter the discount code. 

WHEN GUITAR IS DONE: remainder, plus any shipping balance.


All Standard models are built-to-order! Wait times are currently 3-4 months. A non-refundable $1,000 usd deposit is required to reserve the build, with the balance due when the guitar is finished. Please read our Terms and Conditions when checking out!

We are unable to offer options outside of what is listed on the USA Standard line. For a more custom spec build, please see our USA Custom Shop category!

If you don't want to wait for a customized build, please see our In Stock Now guitars!

GNARWHAL USA STANDARD BASS SPECS: 

Choice of:

  • finish color
  • hardware color

  • pickguard material

  • soft or hard case

NECK AND BODY:

  • 35” scale length

  • Right or Left Handed

  • hard maple 2 piece neck 

  • rosewood fingerboard with white binding

  • mahogany body

  • 10 degree tilt-back headstock w/ reinforcement volute

  • 21 jumbo nickel-silver frets

  • mother of pearl block fretboard inlay

  • luminlay side dots

  • Graph Tech Tusq nut – white or black (we will choose according to what fits the finish color)

  • medium “C” shape neck – roughly .84” thick at 1st fret, .91” at 12th

  • 1.55” nut width

FINISH

  • choose from our extensive finish color menu

  • thin satin urethane finish*

  • choice of finish color

ELECTRONICS

  • choice of Dunable pickups

  • 1 volume and 1 tone (CTS pots and Orange Drop capacitors)

  • push/pull tone pot for coil splitting

  • 3 way pickup toggle switch

  • Switchcraft output jack

HARDWARE

  • Hipshot Ultralite tuning keys

  • Hipshot Supertone bridge

CASE

  • choice of soft case or hard case

SETUP

  • choice of string gauge/setup (if other than E standard tuning)

 

* a note about our paint finishes on USA Standard models – We like to keep the finish as thin as possible, yet just enough to protect the wood from moisture and light physical abuse. Due to this, there is often still some wood texture in the surface of the body, neck, and headstock. The satin finish leaves the wood free to resonate fully, and feels great to play on, both on the neck and body, giving you a nice dry surface to grip.


* we generally do not reject or waste wood for naturally occurring aesthetic issues such as streaking (in ebony), or knots (on mahogany), UNLESS it is a detriment to an instrument's structural integrity. If you need your ebony fingerboard to be jet black, you might get lucky, but we can't guarantee there won't be some kind of implication that your guitar's wood grew out of the earth with unique characteristics because existence is chaotic and unpredictable, but also beautiful when you consider how insignificant any little thing you care about is, so for once in your life just revel in the magical wonder of creating music with the best playing guitar you've ever held.