Alnus Basses - Anyone got one?

[Dood]

18 minutes ago, Minininjarob said:

My stubby fingers won’t get to those notes anyway. 😂

 

Wait! What are us bassists even doing up the dusty end! North of the boarder without our treble passports!!

[andy66db]

I have a lightly aged Sonic Blue Alnus Jazz Bass. Yes it’s an aged Fender copy, but it absolutely blew my Road Worn (Mexican) Fender Anniversary 60s Jazz Bass out of the water. The workmanship, the quality of the ageing (very subtle in my case) and the playability is up there with custom shop Fenders, for a quarter of the price. I sold the Fender (for what I paid for the Alnus) and now have a three bass collection — a ‘72 Precision, an ‘86 Stingray and the Alnus Jazz, which really holds its own alongside the other two. I couldn’t be happier with it.

Edited yesterday at 17:50 by andy66db

[petebassist]

On 05/09/2025 at 13:56, prowla said:

Some musicians...

 

 

(OK - I am a beginner on the Stick.)

What’s the stick like to play? Met this amazing Dutch player in a beach bar in Portugal last year, doing a lunchtime music set, and I became a bit obsessed with them for a while. He did a amazing rendition of Roxanne and other 80s hits.

[prowla]

6 hours ago, petebassist said:

What’s the stick like to play? Met this amazing Dutch player in a beach bar in Portugal last year, doing a lunchtime music set, and I became a bit obsessed with them for a while. He did a amazing rendition of Roxanne and other 80s hits.

Slowly and difficult!

You have top play the stick through an amp; it doesn't really work not plugged in.
(But plugged in it sounds really impressive.)

I'm finding the fattest bass string gets in the way of the next one, which is a hindrance.

I have done various bits of tapping on the bass, so I'm either really impressive doing those things I have muscle memory for or really useless searching around for notes.

I play guitar, but fretting notes with my right hand and playing scales seems to go against the direction my fingers want to go.

All-in-all, it's interesting...

[danbanbass]

On 26/09/2025 at 18:50, andy66db said:

I have a lightly aged Sonic Blue Alnus Jazz Bass. Yes it’s an aged Fender copy, but it absolutely blew my Road Worn (Mexican) Fender Anniversary 60s Jazz Bass out of the water. The workmanship, the quality of the ageing (very subtle in my case) and the playability is up there with custom shop Fenders, for a quarter of the price. I sold the Fender (for what I paid for the Alnus) and now have a three bass collection — a ‘72 Precision, an ‘86 Stingray and the Alnus Jazz, which really holds its own alongside the other two. I couldn’t be happier with it.

Great to hear Andy, I’ve said to hell with it and thrown caution to the wind. I’ve got one being built as we speak 😊 

Edited 3 hours ago by danbanbass