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Four String Basses

Four string Xylem custom bass with a Xylem ball scroll and spalted maple top

Body: spalted maple top (book matched), poplar core
Neck: quarter sawn mahogany, set neck
33" scale
Seymour Duncan "Basslines" pickups
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Left handed Xylem custom bass with Nordstrand MusicMan style pickup

Body: black limba
Neck: quarter sawn mahogany, set neck
34" scale
Nordstrand humbucker and preamp
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A Xylem 4 string black walnut custom bass guitar with an active EMG pickup and Hipshot Tuners.

Body: 150 year old black walnut, mahogany and rock maple
Neck: quarter sawn rock maple and mahogany, set neck
36" scale
Active EMG humbucker
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Five String Basses

5 string custom bass with Uroboros inlay

Body: mahogany core, multi-species top wood, black walnut back wood
Neck: quarter sawn rock maple; set neck
32" scale
Seymour Duncan "Basslines" humbuckers and preamp
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Xylem 5 string custom bass of black limba and macassar ebony with Bartolini pickups and Hipshot tuners and bridge

Body: macassar ebony and black limba w/ maple accent
Neck: 3-piece quarter sawn bird's eye maple w/ bocote stringers, thru neck
35" scale
Bartolini humbuckers and preamp
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Xylem left handed 5 string fretless bass guitar of ebony and black walnut with Nordstrand pickups, East UK preamp and Sperzel locking tuners.

Body: ebony and 150 year old black walnut
Neck: 150 year old quarter sawn black walnut, set neck
34" scale, fretless
Nordstrand single coil pickups, East-UK preamp
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Six String Basses

Xylem 6 string custom bass of black limba with a blood wood top and two scrolls.

Body: black limba core, blood wood top
Neck: quarter sawn rock maple, set neck
36" scale
Passive Villex Jazz Bass pickups
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Xylem 6 string fretless bass of mahogany and other woods with an EMG pickup and Gotoh tuners.

Body: quarter sawn mahogany, walnut, sapele, maple
Neck: quarter sawn rock maple, set neck
34" scale, fretless
Passive EMG humbucker
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Basses In Progress

Single cutaway custom bass design with 32" scale

Body: mahogany
Neck: quarter sawn mahogany, set neck; pao ferro fretboard
32" scale
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5 string bass design with ball scroll and radius ramp

Body: black walnut, ebony top
Neck: quarter sawn black walnut, set neck; ebony fretboard
34" scale
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5 string bass design with Xylem ball scroll

Body: mahogany, curly maple top
Neck: quarter sawn maple, set neck; ebony fretboard
35.5" scale
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