2024 Instrument Specs & Price List

7/23/2024 - Custom Orders for 2024 are now closed. I will be spending the rest of the year finishing up current orders and inventory pieces. Custom Orders will resume in 2025 for completion in 2026. If you would like an instrument sooner than that please check out Instruments in Progress and Available Bass Guitars. Thank you for your interest in my work. -Beau Leopard

BL Design makes bass guitars with three body styles: the Marozi and Caracal double cutaways and the Barbary single cutaway.

Marozi

Marozi

Caracal

Caracal

Barbary

Barbary

4-String

$4500.00

5-String

$5000.00

6-String

$5500.00

7-String

$6000.00

Standard Bass Guitar Features 

  • Neck

  • All instruments have modern set-neck construction

  • 34” or 35” scale

  • Left or Right handed

  • Fretted or Fretless

  • 3 -Piece hard maple neck

  • Half elliptical neck profile

  • Double expanding truss rod

  • Heel-block matches fretboard wood

  • Headstock cap and magnetic truss rod cover match top wood

  • Wenge Fretboard

  • Compound radius

  • 24 frets: medium nickel-silver fretwire

  • Luminlay side markers

  • Brass Nut

• Body

  • Your choice of standard body woods

    • Alder

    • African Mahogany

    • Poplar


• Top

• Hardware

  • Hipshot Ultralite tuning machines

  • ETS Tuning Fork bridge

  • ETS knobs

  • Dunlop Straplocks

• Electronics

  • Nordstrand Fat Stack pickups with coil switch

  • Passive Vol/Vol/Tone or Vol/Blend/Tone wiring

  • Switchcraft Jack with carbon fiber jackplate

  • Full shielding of pickup and electronics cavity

  • Magnetic electronics cavity cover

• Finish

  • Open-pore polyurethane

• Strings

  • Stainless Steel or Nickel strings

• Case

  • Protec Contego case

• Warranty

  • Each instrument includes a 5-year limited warranty to the original owner

Custom Order

• A 30% deposit is required to start building your bass

• Lead time is 18 months depending on workload

• Every Instrument is made to exacting specifications and tailored to you

• Playability, sound, comfort & aesthetic considerations are all equally important factors to each instrument 

2024 CUSTOM OPTIONS

Please contact for quote

  • Necks

    • 3 piece quartersawn hard maple is standard

    • 3-5 piece neck depending on woods and number of pieces.

      • Hard maple, hard curly maple, ash, wenge, bubinga, padauk, purpleheart (selection varies)

      • Carbon fiber bars

      • Custom scales, dimensions and profiles available upon request

  • Fretboards

    • Wenge fretboard is standard

    • Premium fretboard woods are available, market price

      • East Indian rosewood, gabon ebony, macassar ebony, goncalo alves, bubinga, birdseye maple, cocobolo, bocote, katalox, ziricote, zebrawood, bloodwood

    • Acrylic stabilized fretboard (special order)

    • Lined fretless

    • Epoxy coated fretless

    • Fretboard binding

    • Alternate fretwire sizes and types avail upon request

  • Bodies

    • 2 piece alder, African mahogany or poplar are standard

    • Premium body woods are available at market price

      • 2 piece end-matching is standard

      • Curly or quilted maple, walnut, swamp ash, nothern ash, redwood, sassafras, padauk, bubinga, black limba

    • Accent lines in maple, wenge or dyed veneer

    • Body chamber to reduce weight

    • Chambered with soundhole

    • Custom body shapes available and include CAD drawings for design approval

  • Tops

    • Your choice from our stock of Standard, Premium or Exhibition. A selection of top woods is viewable at https://gallery.bldesign.us/Top-Woods

    • Backs are also available and priced per piece

    • Full faced top (neck joint is hidden)

    • Woods not in stock can be special ordered

  • Hardware

    • Black hardware is standard. Chrome or Gold is also available

    • Hipshot Ultralite tuners are standard

    • Bridges

      • ETS Tuning Fork is standard

      • ETS Tuning Fork Piezo bridge with Bartolini buffer

  • Pickups

    • Nordstrand Fat Stacks are standard

      • Dual Coils

      • Other pickup types available upon request

    • Pickups by other manufacturers available upon request

  • Preamps

    • Nordstrand 3b preamp, custom configured

    • Preamps by other manufacturers available upon request

  • Finishes

    • Open pore satin polyurethane is standard

    • Full fill satin acrylic urethane

    • High gloss polyester

    • High gloss body/headstock and satin neck

    • Stains

  • Inlay

    • Headstock logo

      • Wood is standard

      • Pearl

      • Abalone

    • Traditional dot markers pearl or abalone

    • Cat-Eye markers

    • Block markers

    • Side markers pearl or abalone. Luminlay is standard

    • Custom inlay is available by quote based on materials and complexity

  • Other     

    • Wooden pickup covers

      • Matching or contrasting flat wood covers

      • Matching or contrasting radiused wood covers

      • Continuous covers

      • Exposed pole pieces

      • Integrated wood pickup cover and ramp

      • Continuous integrated pickup cover and ramp

    • Ramps

      • Matching or contrasting flat ramp

      • Matching or contrasting radiused ramp

      • Flat acrylic ramp

      • Radiused acrylic ramp

    • Knobs

      • ETS metal knobs are standard

      • Laminated wood knobs with markers

Custom Order

Full Fill Satin

Full Fill Satin

High Gloss

High Gloss