Hi all,
Just stumbled upon this site by accident while looking for info on scroll basses, I remember some of these names from the old "dudepit" site. At any rate, I have a scroll bass project that Bruce is putting together for me and we recently had an oppurtunity to visit with him at his shop in burbank, while I have had several phone conversations with him, it was really great to me the man in person. He was very gracious and showed us around the shop , antigue machines are another one of his passions, great old lathes and drill presses fill his shop. He pulled out a bunch of his creations from over the years, my favorite was an early one with the pickup mounted towards the rear like a MM stingray. They were mostly fretless models and that convinced me to have him replace my fretted board with a new fretless one,they just seem "right" that way, he also pulled out a Ampeg AMUB for me to try as I had never had the opportunity to play a real one before. As a one man operation I know thigs move kind of slow in the production area, but I,m hoping mine will be finished sometime this year. We had a great time visiting with him, he,s really an interesting and nice fella. He also told me he found a manufacture to replicate the scroll bass hardshell cases, and that they are much nicer than the originals, so hopefully he will have some of those available in the near future. I will post some pics of my bass when I recieve it.