Helliver Tim Schraubt bass

[ilan]

I know nothing about this bass, just that it's one of the nicest designs I have ever seen.

https://tim-stelzer.de/timschraubtbass/?m=201911

[Rob]

That is nice looking.

[Dave W]

I like the looks of it. Some Gibson influence there.

[slinkp]

Nice.  The pickup design and placement shows a Stingray influence as well, and it sounds a bit like one too to my ear.

Article about it - I can't read German but thanks to Google translate I can get the gist.
"Medium" scale, I wonder how long it is?
Mahogany body, mahogany set neck, ebony fingerboard.

https://tim-stelzer.de/timschraubtbass/?m=201911

[Dave W]

If only someone here were a native German speaker...

[uwe]

Ilan and his meschugge craving for Deutsches Design! 

Ich soll übersetzen? Na gut, stichpunktartig, sonst wird's zu lang:

- maho body and neck, ebony board,

- set neck, medium scale,

- Stelzer's first bass prototype, he usually does guitars,

- he wanted it light, ergonomic and for not so tall players, hence medium scale, but you can order long scale too, also different or more pups,

- "a conscious effort to get away from the rule book that a well-sounding bass has to have an alder or ash body with a bolt-on long scale maple neck" - I have no idea what brand he means, honestly,

- pup can be switched in series, parallel or single coil,

- slinkp is right, from the sound examples, it sounds to me like a maho Stingray would, the pup type and its positioning are most likely responsible for that, there is one big dif: while most Stingrays have an anemic G string and should be consequently delivered E-A-D only, the G string on the Stelzer is actually the most dominant one, no doubt by virtue of the medium scale,

- Tim Stelzer is happy "that it didn't come out sounding like a Gibson EB", yet at the same time doesn't replicate "prevailing bolt-on culture" ("bolt-on" seems to be a synonym for him for that Californian brand - and all the boutique builders following it - whose unspeakable name I will not repeat here).

[Basvarken]

I like it. The hybrid of a Thunderbird and a EB-0 (lp jr dc) with a dash of Stingray and a hint of a P-bass.

[4stringer77]

Has some resemblance to the Warwick Idolmaker. Between that model and the thumb, it's like they are trying to become the reigning champs of neckdive. This medium scale bass makes a nice balance between modern and classic.

[TBird1958]

Schecter has/had? a bass that looks kind of like this too.

[ilan]

and a hint of a P-bass

The headstock you mean? More like a hint of Sandberg.

[4stringer77]

Schecter has/had? a bass that looks kind of like this too.

That would be the Ultra.

[Basvarken]

The headstock you mean? More like a hint of Sandberg.

Which is of course the umpteenth 7ender clone. 😉

[ilan]

Not a very elegant variant, unlike the rest of the bass. IMHO a reverse body needs a reverse headstock.

[Dave W]

Has some resemblance to the Warwick Idolmaker. Between that model and the thumb, it's like they are trying to become the reigning champs of neckdive. This medium scale bass makes a nice balance between modern and classic.

I don't see the resemblance. This bass has a Les Paul type upper bout, rounded on the bass side, conventional cutaway on the treble side. The Idolmaker is a reverse-type design, upper bout on the treble side extending well past the rest of the body.