RB-4 Rockabilly Upright Bass Pro Custom Paint Job of Top Notch Quality Metallic Automotive Paint

RB-4 Rockabilly Upright Bass Pro Rockabilly set-ups. This gorgeous bass is ready for the stage! Perfectly setup/adjusted for rockabilly/bluegrass music by our custom setup shop.
Just put your choice of strings on for your style of playing if you want to play jazz or orchestral. This bass is ready to play any style because of the properly shaped fingerboard, nut and bridge.

Email from recent buyer of one of these gorgeous basses:
"We recently auditioned for a more upscale venue called the Rancho Bernardo Inn, and they really, really liked us. They'll be adding us into their regular Live Music rotation, probably starting in the winter, I'm guessing.
If I get some good footage there, I'll send it your way.
The bass is a big hit everywhere. Gets plenty of ooohs and aaaaahs. Folks love it.
I could play it crappy, they wouldn't care.
It just looks freaking gorgeous. And - coincidentally -
a restaurant we routinely gig at out in the desert (Borrego Springs) has blue ceilings & upholstery that match the bass just perfectly.
Go figure! People come up to take pics of it all the time. -Thanks! Brian”


Big sounding all laminate bass with standard spruce top and maple sides and back. Crack proof construction makes it ideal for traveling, BIG SOUND makes it ideal for unamped gigs.

Comes with black kevlar core weedwacker strings on the one pictured, can change them out if you wish for strings of your choice - let us know what strings you want.

This is a custom, Made-to-order Bass. Pinsriping varies because they are hand painted. If you have a specific pinstripe design in mind just explain it to us in detail or email us a picture. If you would like a different color bass and pinstripes, you can "choose your own custom colors" by picking this option below. We will call and work with you about this. We can paint it any color you want. Our contact information is at the bottom of the page if you want to talk about this.

Features include:

Custom, made-to-order Rockabilly bass

PRO Rockabilly set-ups

2 Color Hand-Painted custom pinstriping

Select spruce top

Maple back and sides

Arched-back construction

24:1 ratio Tyrolean-style machine heads

Ebonized Hardwood fingerboard and nut

Ebonized wood tailpiece

Aged northern maple bridge cut to fit

Deluxe Brazilwood bow with unbleached white horsehair

Deluxe Padded Nylon bag


**IMPORTANT SHIPPING NOTES:
Shipping is $159 to a Qualified* Commercial address and requires the address to be located within 30 minutes, or so, of a major city, on major U.S. shipping arteries and not more than 300 miles or so from our shop in Pasadena, CA.

An Upright Bass is too large to ship via conventional carriers like FedEx and UPS and “Oversized” carriers like freight lines and trucking companies must be used. These oversized freight companies play by different rules than you are used to. For example, they will call you to set a delivery appointment, usually a 2-hour window. If you don’t keep this appointment they will charge you $50 to $70 for “redelivery”.

If delivering to Commercial addresses they will not call to set an appointment, they will deliver during regular business hours of 8-5 and expect you to be open. If you are not open at those hours you should contact them at the # provided with the tracking and receiving information that will be emailed to you, and arrange delivery during your business hours.

A Qualified* Commercial Address is defined as a business address in an area that is incorporated or “Zoned” Commercial and where a large truck has “easy access”. Easy access means a commercial address with a shipping & receiving dock or a place that is directly adjacent to an entrance not requiring any additional handling, i.e., stairs or anything past the front door. There are additional handling charges for those and other services. In short, anything other than driving up, dropping off the shipment and driving away is charged for. When choosing the “Commercial Address” option below be sure to include the name of the Company in the checkout process.

Shipping rates can vary greatly depending on where you live. More remote commercial shipping addresses on the East Coast, New England, New York, New Jersey as well as Florida or the upper Midwestern States such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, for example, require additional shipping charges usually running between $65 and $135, but in the most crowded or remote areas can add on up to $200. These types of shipping destinations are more expensive to ship to from us here in California.

The customer will need to make up the difference between the initial $159 shipping and the actual shipping costs. In any case, FMI will contact you if there is additional shipping due.
Shipping to a residential address is $65 more to any State as it takes special handling by the freight line.

For exact shipping quotes inside or outside the continental United States CLICK HERE, describe the instrument as below, tell us where you are and we'll e-mail a shipping quote back to you.