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We are
Basone, a guitar company specializing in high quality handmade electrics & stringed instrument repair. At our shop, we provide many services to improve your guitar, such as setups, fret dress, crack repair, spray jobs and more. Go to our services page to see our repairs gallery.
Our retail store is located
in Vancouver's Main Street district. Besides our line of fine
electrics and guitar repair services, you will find in store guitars by G&L, Voyage Air foldable travel guitars, Godin, Seagull, Ovation, Marshall, Breedlove, Hagstrom, Charvel, Fender, Parker, B.C. Rich, Ovation, Martin, Sigma, and Walden;
Electronics and hardware by Floyd Rose, Lollar Pickups, K&K, EMG, TonePros Kluson, Seymour Duncan, Dean Markley, Gotoh, Graphtech, Bartolini, Reilander pickups (made in BC Canada) and B-Band;
A huge selection of strings brands such as Thomastik, Pyramid (Germany), DR (including neon and multi color), Dunlop, Elixir, Ernie Ball including Slinkies Titanium Coated strings, Dean Marley Blue Steel, D'addario including the NEW Nickel Wound XL strings, GHS, Curt Mangan, Dean Marley, Zack Wilde Series, Eddie Van Halen Premium Strings, David Gilmore Signature Strings, and Eric Clapton's Choice Martin Strings; also accessories, hard-to-find part and more.
Basone was estabilished in 2004 in Gastown, but luthier Chris Bas had been working in the guitar manufacturing business
since the mid nineties.
As far as our custom electrics go, we only use quality handpicked
woods, such as figured Big Leaf Maple, Honduran Mahogany and Brazilian
Rosewood. Every individual electric's neck width, scale, and radius is
done pertaining to each model, offering options that you can not buy
off the shelf. Design, function, balance, and tonal flavor come
together in these amazing instruments. Just take a look at our
"Products" and
"Customs & History" pages.
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Most
of our guitars, such as the Basone Phoenix and
Artists series are only stained, showing off the
intricate natural patterns of our high quality worldly tonewoods. However,
we do also offer opaque, metallic, candy, sunburst and colour-changing
finishes. The exquisite Basone
Talon is an example of maximum customization, which has lasers and LED
lights incorporated into the instrument, customized body and exclusive
finishing. The Basone Eschaton
also has peculiar features, such as a fully scalloped fretboard, snow
white sunburst and all-gold graphics and hardware.
The combination of high-end tonewoods, electronics and hardware make the
guitars of the Basone family feel, sound, and look second to none.
Some of
Basone's hype has been attributed to the release of the patented
model "Talon" and "Eschaton" models, the award-winning
cannabis-leaf-shaped
Smoker's Delight, and the
Basone Original, which was featured in
a Budweiser
commercial aired during the SuperBowl '07, followed by a world-wide
radio interview with Basone's luthier
on the station Rock 101.
Basone's unique figured Maple tops are created naturally at
Columbia Valley
Tonewoods, owned and operated by Linda and Calvin Voth. Located just outside of Vancouver. This rapidly-growing B.C. tonewoods company stocks kiln dried, award-winning sitka spruce, cedar, exotic figured Maple and other sought after woods. CV also provides woods to other acclaimed guitar companies world-wide.
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Basone also offers services for the
Movie Industry, such as prop guitars for stunts and guitar
replicas.
Basone Guitars. Blending art and music. |
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