Inspiration comes in many forms. For Stuart Spector, it was a banjo. "One day in 1974 I was sitting in my friend Mike Kropp’s apartment," recalls Spector. "Mike is a fabulous banjo player, and he was playing a pre-war Gibson ‘hearts & flowers’ Mastertone flathead banjo. I’m listening to him play and thinking, Wow, that’s a beautiful banjo. And Mike says, ‘It’s not the original neck—it’s a reproduction made by my college friend, Kix Stewart.’ Mike tells me that Kix—who’s now the Stewart of Stewart-MacDonald’s Guitar Shop Supply—had made the neck in about a week and spray-painted it in his bathroom. I heard this story and thought, Well, if he can do that, I can make a guitar or a bass."
Today, Stuart makes eight to ten Spector neck-through basses a month in his shop near Woodstock, New York, and he also offers production instruments built under contract in the Czech Republic, Korea, and China. ("We’re our own little mom-and-pop multinational corporation," he says with a chuckle.)
Spector Legend 4:
- special set-neck design
- quilted maple or figured bubinga tops with 3 ply rock maple neck and 24 fret rosewood fingerboard
- original NS curved body style with deluxe cast gold bridge and hardware
- high impedance, passive, USA EMG-HZ pickups with 3 band EMG active tone circuit
- naturall matte finish
- bubinga top
Artists playing on Spector:
Mike Kroeger (Nickelback), Robbie Merill (Godsmack) , Dennis Pepa (Death Angel), Chuck Rainey, Leigh Fox (Blondie), Aaron Julison (Kid Rock), Rex Brown (Pantera), Rachel Bolan (Skid Row), Mike Inez (Alice in Chains), Ian Hill (Judas Priest), Traa Daniels (P.O.D.), Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)....
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