timoth‽Offbeat Guitars Shelby
Offbeat Guitars is a husband and wife team. It is not clear whether both are involved in making the instruments, or if one is the builder and the other handles the business side, but that is not really important.
This bass is a 30 inch short scale. The body is a sort of non-offset jag shape with a German carve. It is made from Spanish Cedar, which we typically only see used for acoustic guitars.
We previous mentioned how basses are more open to variety than their guitars, and part of that is much less standardization of pickups. Even the category of “Jazz Bass pickups” is a minefield of different sizes. When it comes to aftermarket replacement pickups, it is basically a crapshoot whether a particular manufacturer will offer something in a compatible form factor. It is not unusual for bass manufacturers to design their own unique pickups in whatever shape they fancy.
All that is to say that this bass features a single T-Bird pickup, which we do not think we have ever seen anywhere besides an actual Thunderbird bass. Completed with basic volume and tone controls and a Badass bridge (as in, that is the actual name of the product, not our assessment of it).
All around, a solid no-nonsense instrument finished in one of the better purples that we have seen so far.
