I have been watching Kevin's work for a couple of years, and knew I wanted him to build something for me. I took me a while to come up with this. I have always been intrigued by his one, two, and three string basses. After playing a Hamer 8 string octave bass at Truetone, I formed this idea.
Yes, the body is pretty small. The bridge is of his own making, adapted from the touch style instruments he makes. The spacing between the octave strings at the bridge is 1/4. I think that is a little wider than many production octave basses, well see how it works. I would think the strings are much tighter spaced at the nut.
Kevin is known to wind his own humbucker pups, and they usually look like that, plain black with a ring. Or based on his build philosophy, it might be some no-name humbucker he found laying around. It is passive with just a volume. The woods he used were all his choice, neck of mahogany walnut and maple, body of walnut cherry and mahogany. He didn't tell me what the fingerboard is.
The only thing I spec'd when I placed the order, was the number and tuning of the strings, the body shape, and the simple electronics. This may seem a little odd to those of us accustomed to an Alembic build, but Krappy Guitars has a different way of doing business. Read his manifesto at Krappyguitars.com to get an idea of what I mean.
From deposit to shipment was a couple of days over two weeks, and the total cost, including shipping was $400.
