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The “Space Nacho” Bass Guitar

Vicious, space-themed, fretless custom bass. Decked out with inlayed planets as the fret position markers, a solid meteorite nut, and a custom Tie Fighter knob, among other fun details.

Signed by Les Claypool too!

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Instrument type

4-string solid body electric bass

Year built

 2009

 Body

 Figured Black Walnut

Neck

Honduran Mahagony, Padauk, and Maple 

Fretboard

Ebony

Nut

Hand carved meteorite

Bridge

Hipshot Supertone

Tuners

Sperzel locking

Pickups

EMG

Scale

34″ Fretless

Finish

Nitrocellulose lacquer

Knobs/switches 

Hand carved Poplar “Tie fighter”, Orange and white Alabaster planetary spheres

Fingerboard inlay

Solar system representation in hand cut materials. Each planet is positioned as a fret marker.
-Sun: Orange Alabaster with Sulfur flares
-Mercury: Abalone
-Venus: Mother Of Pearl
-Earth: Turquoise
-Mars: Red Tiger’s Eye
-Jupiter: Jasper
-Saturn: Osage Orange wood with Dinosaur bone ring
-Uranus: Malachite with Sulfur ring
-Neptune: Lapis Lazuli
-Pluto: Stone

Side fret marker inlay

Smaller markers of the same material as Fretboard planets

Additional accents

Signed by Les Claypool “Ahoy Les Claypool”.  “Shooting star” under bridge: Meteorite with Sulfur and Dinosaur bone tail.

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