There are those people that have great technique, yet lack the art, the magic. At this level of performance, you are able to get the inside out, imparting soul and character in your craft. At some point, somewhere down the road, those tools and techniques become so refined that you no longer actively think about them. Like musicians, you work very consciously on techniques and develop tools and strong foundations. Yet once the techniques are ingrained, one goes above the science and technique, and enters the art. Sculpting, fretting, sanding, finishing… all exacting and unforgiving. Neck shapes are not measured, the hands remember, they are measured to feel. The hands now know inherently what to do. I can always do better, and I strive to do better with every bass. Each and every new bass is made to these standards, start to finish. It’s what we do in the present that counts, in any art, form or function, and life itself. Achievement lasts only seconds before it becomes the past. Without evolution and growth there is no point to life, no value in who we are, or in any thing we do. My years of experience help, however, it takes more than that. After 40 years of experience I can honestly say that the basses are, without question, the best they have ever been. Designing and building instruments has always been my passion.
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