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12-1-23: Nathan Wickett, owner of the "Orianna" Xylem guitar, has just released a new single! Check out I Wait for You, featuring the Orianna guitar with its three Fishman Fluence pickups, GraphTech Ratio tuners and swamp ash/Brazilian cherry body!

Nathan will release a new single about every three months for awhile under his label, Chubby Cat Records. Check back often at the following platforms where his music is available:

NathanWickett.com
YouTube
Spotify
Deezer
Instagram
Facebook

11-30-22: A fanned fret (multi-scale) 5-string bass is up on the site! The "Tiamat" custom bass includes an "earth and moon" inlay in its gorgeous ebony and swamp ash body, along with Aguilar pickups and an OBP-3 preamp.

Also be sure to listen to The Lowdown Show interview with Xylem from earlier this year.

11-25-22: Two new basses and a new guitar are here. Check out the eye-candy!

The fretless "Eljo" 5-string bass has a magnificent blue stabilized burl top and radius ramp.

Featuring a classy, traditional design, the "Ozymandias" 6-string bass includes a rosewood and swamp ash body.

…and the "Leviathan" custom guitar has an exotic shape (with Xylem scroll), colored burl top and Seymour Duncan pickups.

4-25-22: Check out Journey of Bass with some new recordings of the Aesura bass! Hear the songs Sunflowers and Spirit Dance with their melodic slap/lead bass sound and feel.

11-29-21: A new lefty custom bass has been posted! The bass has a 35" scale length, EMG PJAX pickups (P-Bass in neck position, J-Bass in bridge), an EMG BQC System preamp and Hipshot hardware. The body of the bass is made of bloodwood, wenge and walnut and includes a ball scroll. The neck is Peruvian walnut with an ebony fretboard and 24 frets.

Also be sure to check out one of the latest builds, a 5-string fretless with blue stabilized box elder topwood!

8-2-21: The new Orianna Custom Guitar is now on the site. This 25.5" (Stratocaster) scale guitar has three Fishman Fluence pickups. The neck pickup is approximately in Les Paul position, the middle pickup is in Strat position and the bridge pickup is in its own unique place (about 1/8" closer to the neck than the bass-side of a Strat bridge pickup). The Fluence pickups are custom-wired with tons of switching options: each knob has a push/pull function, all pickup combinations are possible, and there are three mini-toggles with independent voices for each pickup! Check out the guitar to learn more.

6-26-21: The new Gymir 5-string piccolo bass is here! It is a true piccolo bass, tuned one octave above a regular bass guitar. It includes a Kahler tremolo, Q-Tuner Q2.0 pickups, beautiful maple burl tops, dog paw inlays and a "fusion" fretboard made of bloodwood and purpleheart with a curved sine wave joint between them.

We also recommend listening to guitarist Raz Sisneros' YouTube channel Vanjula Studios. Raz has a Xylem guitar on order which will be built soon. In the mean time, check out Raz's tune "Vishoka - Let Them Come"

6-21-21: The new Aesura custom bass is on the site, along with sound samples of its Mike Pope preamp with Nordstrand Power Blade and Big J-Blade pickups. Check out its aquamarine block inlays and the abalone sea turtle inlay too!

8-5-19: A new five-string custom bass is available at Chicago Music Exchange!

7-24-19: See the new Thunderbird-inspired Xylem bass with its ACG preamp, Bartolini pickups and killswitch a la Tom Morello and Buckethead.

7-17-19: Check out the new Sinistra four-string short scale bass. The new bass has a Kahler tremolo, EMG 35-DC pickup and EMG BTS Control preamp (Primus anyone?).

Dina Simone also has a new video covering Nick Waterhouse's Money that features the "Shishido" Xylem bass!

Want a better slap bass tone? Check the Xylem article:

Slap Bass - Techniques, Adjustments and Tricks to Develop Your Tone