Grez Unveils 5-String Grand Tour Bass: A Short-Scale Semi-Hollow Built for the “Slightly Different”
California’s Grez Guitars has added a new bass to its arsenal with the 5-string Grez Grand Tour Bass. The new model adds a fifth string to the design they created in collaboration with Ian Martin Allison earlier this year.
The vintage-inspired 5-string Grand Tour Bass has a short 30-inch scale. Grez builds it with a 16-inch semi-hollow Honduran Mahogany body featuring a carved spruce top. Its neck is also mahogany. Other standard features include a Macassar ebony fingerboard, a Halon bridge, and Curtis Novak H22 pickups. Grez can build to order and offers several options.
“To follow the initial 4-string short scale bass, a full set of variants are now available including 4 or 5 string configured as a low B or high C, 30” or 34” scale, fretted or fretless and right or left-handed,” the company writes. Founder Barry Grzebik adds, “The Grand Tour Bass released earlier this year really seems to have filled a void in the market and I believe this launch exemplifies my desire to be the place people come to for the ‘slightly different’ vibe not always available from the larger contemporary bands.”
Hear the bass in action with this short demo by Ben Bruligh.
The Grez 5-string Grand Tour Bass is available now with a street price of $6,300.
Grez Guitars 5-string Grand Tour Bass Specs:
| Scale: | 30″ (34″ option available) |
| Body: | Honduran Mahogany |
| Top: | Carved Sitka Spruce |
| Neck: | Honduran Mahogany |
| Fingerboard: | Macassar Ebony |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 12″ |
| Frets: | 21 Jumbo (Fretless Available) |
| Inlays: | Dot |
| Pickups: | Curtis Novak H22 |
| Electronics: | Passive |
| Bridge: | Halon with Grez Stainless Steel String Anchor |
| Finish: | Nitro |
| Orientation: | Right or Left Handed Available |
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34 inch 5 string passive is perfect. What width is the nut..?
When will it be available?
What kind of a price tag will it have?