6/16/09

Calvin's old bass showed up and is available on the for sale page.

6/5/09

As promised, the redwood topped vJ5 is completed and available!

See the for sale page to learn more.

6/4/09

Here's a stock bass that will be available hopefully tomorrow if we get it built today. vJ5 ash with a redwood top and a birdseye maple fingerboard. It'll have a clear pickguard and Big Singles with our two band preamp with tone control. Should be killer! $3450.

6/2/09

This is Rufus Philpot's old bass that he traded in for a 34" scale version in a slightly different color. It is available for purchase. The regular new price would be $3275. It has big singles, our three band preamp with no treble control, a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard, and a lacquer finish.

I'm offering it in used condition at a substantial discount for $2400. There is some wear on the finish, but it is in very good condition overall and of course sounds and plays great. Plus it comes with some of that Rufus mojo...

6/1/09

Got two basses added to the for sale page and will add a used vJ5 that belonged to Rufus Philpot soon, hopefully tomorrow.

More soon. Got some nice exotic topped Nordy's coming down the pike later this week...

5/1/09

I purged a bit of stuff from the bottom of this page so it'll load faster. Someday I need to set up an archive system, or implement a blog setup...

Anyway we finally finished Chad Hyatt's bass. Behold...

It really turned out stunning. There's only a few of these left in the queue and then we'll reconsider taking orders again. But for now, we're still focusing on getting a smooth running foundation of production going that we can build on.

Stay tuned, I've got a couple one piece neck ash/maple Nordy's almost ready to show off next week.

4/24/09

This bass will be on the for sale page Monday. Daphne Blue vJ5 34" scale with NJ5 wide pickups, passive controls and a tinted neck. $2600.

Chad's bass is almost done. I should have some good pics on Monday.

4/17/09

Finally got Chad's NX5 back from paint. And it looks killer!

And here's Dale's vJ5 almost ready to ship...

4/15/09

Tax day!

We've finished up a couple custom Nordy's this last week or so. First is this koa topped fretless vJ5 for a customer in Santa Fe...

And next, for our good friend Dale, a trans hot pink vJ5, with inlaid ebony polka dots...

The pic below is more color correct. The one above is much more red than it should be. It's a VERY difficult color to photograph accurately.

It really needs to be seen in person to be appreciated.

Also, we've got a few vJ5 one piece neck 34" scale basses coming up soon. One of them is for LA area pro Mr. Roberto Vally (see below, NAMM pics). The other one may be available.

Also on the near horizon is a Daphne Blue alder/rosewood 34" vJ5. Pics soon!

4/7/09

In case anyone was wondering, the below post was an April Fools joke. We are not going to stop building basses! We may add an acoustic at some point in the future, but for now we feel like we are just getting started with the basses. There may be a P style instrument in our future as well.

Anyway, we've got a bunch of Nordy's going together this week and we'll get some fresh pics up as soon as we can.

Also, a reminder that this bass is in stock and available. Check the for sale page if you're interested.

4/1/09

Nordstrand Guitars is proud to announce a complete change of direction for the company. Starting immediately we will cease production of bass guitars and begin production of acoustic guitars only. Pictured above is the flagship model representing this historic change for the company, the NAG-1.

Keep an eye on this website in the near future as it will receive a top to bottom overhaul respective of the new direction of the company. All bass guitar related content will be purged from the site shortly.

But before that happens we have to ship this bass...

This one is going to Aaron Elliott. This is his second Nordy and it is the second bass we've finished with a one piece maple neck.

Again, this seems to be a magical combination for tone. The one piece neck is turning out to be a pretty special thing. Our new wide NJ5's with a 70's wind and spacing combined with our 2 band preamp give this bass a very open and full sound. The color is Ice Blue Metallic.

Also notice the new Hipshot bent plate bridge. The top load slots are gone, but it's still a quick load bridge - the strings slide into the back edge and sideways to their anchor points. We love it! A very clean look!

Too bad we're not building basses anymore...

3/5/09

This vJ5 is sold.

Also, we finished up these two basses for our new dealer in Spain - Todo Bajos.

1/9/09

The new outboard bass preamp is now all together and ready for it's debut at NAMM. It is a +/- 9 18 volt circuit (basically it runs on two 9 volt batteries) that is similar to the onboard preamp that we put inside the basses. It has a selector switch for the mid frequency at 400hz or 1000hz. This is not the final layout just the first working prototype.