Monster #doublebass about to hit the website! #gobigorgohome #uptonbass #uprightbass
Get ready for the @uptonbassvan in a city near you. #vanlife #doublebass #roadtrip #seeyousoon #travel #sprintervan #upton #letsgo
Road Trip! Post pics!
Please come to Florida!
Have a safe trip!
When do you think you will get to the Grand Rapids area?
Woo hoo! Can't wait! X-mas is coming early!
Which one? #brescianbass #concordbass #ergobass #uptonbass
They're all beautiful, but I love the darker finish of the middle one. 🙏🏼
I like the one on the left
well, without hearing them, hard to say. But I'm really digging the Ergo...
Allllll of them!
Send me that Ergo one!
There is no incorrect answer.
Concord
Left!
far right with the lovely and dramatic grain.
Right, please.
They all look great! It would be nice to hear the ergo on a video.
The middle one please!
Three Cool Cats
Yes, please!
that one
Yes.
#concordbass #uprightbass #uptonbass getting ready to hit the road in the @uptonbassvan ! #doublebass
Beautiful as always. What is that style of edging on the body (approx. one-inch+ wide) called?
Go on a Philly Run!
These are fantastic basses!
Be very safe if Upton bass van is going on the road again!
The #rubnerbass just before we closed her up! This bass will be up for sale on the website next week! We heard her first few notes today and she didn’t disappoint! #jazzbass #uprightbass #doublebass #uptonbass
Ever see one of those spy movies where they assemble a gun out of a small case before they take out the bad guy and save the world? It’s kinda like that 😉 #suitcasebass
Rubner #doublebass that came in as a converted 5’er (and shouldn’t have been) about to be setup and hit the website restored to its 4 string setup. These #rubnerbass always sound so good, we can’t wait to hear this one! #uprightbass #germanbass #uptonbass
Don’t let these opportunities slip by, AES Opus 50 ready for your audition! #uptonbass #doublebass #uprightbass #contrabass #cextension
Vote below! Stock individuals, hat pegs, or Frenchies mounted to a plate? What’s your “dream” tuner setup?
My 1920 Czech factory bass has plate tuners that have never given me a moment of trouble. That said, I've always though hat pegs look so cool. I've even through about adding faux hat pegs to the gears of mine in homage to that awesome look. 🙂
I always dreamed of modding a set of french rubners on to a set of custom full plates, to get the best combo of german and english gears, but the proper ability to dismantle and service. I guess however that this would be rather pricier in time terms than it probably needs to be !
Hat Pegs! My 1930s German had them and they look great!
Stock individuals
Programmable auto-tuners! Yeah!
Definitely French rubner tuners
So many levels of wtaf on this corner. 🤦♂️🤷♂️😞 #martinioreste #doublebass #uprightbass #bassrestoration
Sexy button on this beast! Artistically trying to blend the caps from a new neck graft so we didn’t disrupt the makers unique and well done button. #respectthework of the original. #uptonbass
Not a glamorous picture, but if you go back 15 and then 36 posts, you can see where this was! Close to perfect alignment on this back center seam rejoin! Not much touchup needed on this #juzekbass #bassrepair #uptonbass
Strong work, guys. Not that I'm surprised.
Taking advantage of the low light to scrape the replacement top on this 4/4 #doublebass! #uptonbass
The #martinioreste #doublebass had an old school extension where someone cut the scroll to hold it. Nowadays we fit around the scroll, so this needed to be filled in and re-carved. There are some major chip outs that had just been varnished over when someone horribly revarnished this bass, and we’ll fill and rebuild those too before grafting the scroll onto a new neck. We got to study another Martini in 2019 for a full photo shoot, so we have a good idea where to take this one when we revarnish it for the third time in its short life. #uptonbass
Can't wait to see how it turns out.
Another #wheredoibegin moment for the #martinioreste #doublebass! Only the smaller section is original, and the larger section doesn’t even have the grain going the right way! 🤦♂️#uprightbass #restoration
Weird tree.
Scrap everything not original and get to rebuilding!
The basses really make the morning light look better 😉 #doublebass #uprightbass #uptonbass #bohemianmodel
The basses really make the morning light look better 😉 #doublebass #uprightbass #uptonbass #bohemianmodel
Beautiful. I can smell freshly brewed coffee ☕️....
