Maker
F Bass
Canadian handcrafted bass maker
F Bass is a Canadian maker of handcrafted electric basses, including BN, Deluxe BN, VF, AC, and F Bass VI models.
Models
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F Bass AC Signature
Canada
The AC Signature is a semi-chambered fretless bass developed with Canadian jazz bassist Alain Caron since the mid-1980s. It has a chambered figured-maple body with a Canadian spruce top and sound hole, a three-piece maple neck, and a Gabon ebony fingerboard, voiced by an F Bass stacked single-coil bridge pickup combined with an RMC piezo bridge system and the F Bass 9V three-band preamp. It is offered fretless as standard, with a fretted option, in four-, five-, and six-string versions.
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F Bass VF Series
Canada
The VF is F Bass's vintage-inspired model, pairing 1960s-70s styling with the Canadian shop's modern construction. It uses a Northern ash or alder body, a maple neck, and Aguilar pickups (P-60 and/or J-HC) with F Bass's own 9V three-band preamp and a Hipshot bent-plate bridge. It is built on a 34-inch scale and offered in four-, five-, and six-string versions.
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F Bass BN Series
Canada
The BN is F Bass's flagship handcrafted bass, built in Canada with a three-piece quarter-sawn maple neck and a body of Northern ash or alder. It carries two F Bass stacked single-coil pickups with a noise-cancelling mode and the company's own active 9V three-band preamp, feeding an aluminum Hipshot bridge. The BN is offered in four-, five-, and six-string versions.
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F Bass AC Classic
Canada
The AC Classic is a fretless bass developed with Alain Caron and billed as 'the upright reinvented,' built in Canada to deliver an acoustic, upright-style voice. It pairs a chambered figured-maple body with a redwood top and extra chambering under the bridge, a three-piece maple neck, a Gabon ebony fingerboard, and LaBella black-nylon tapewound strings, voiced by an F Bass stacked single-coil bridge pickup and a Fishman piezo system in a handmade ebony bridge. It is offered fretless in four-, five-, and six-string versions.
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F Bass VI
Canada
The F Bass VI is a bass VI: tuned E-A-D-G-B-E like a guitar but an octave lower, built on a 30-inch scale. Made in Canada, it has a black walnut body, an East Indian rosewood fingerboard, Lollar pickups, a Mastery M1 bridge with vibrato, and simple master volume and tone controls. It is offered in two pickup configurations, HSS and HSH.
Sources
Categories
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Electric Basses
Electric bass guitars and related model families.
Representative model
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F Bass BN Series
Canada
The BN is F Bass's flagship handcrafted bass, built in Canada with a three-piece quarter-sawn maple neck and a body of Northern ash or alder. It carries two F Bass stacked single-coil pickups with a noise-cancelling mode and the company's own active 9V three-band preamp, feeding an aluminum Hipshot bridge. The BN is offered in four-, five-, and six-string versions.