Bootsy's Warwick RockBass Artist Line Bootsy Collins Space Bass (signed), 2014
The star-shaped Space Bass, Bootsy’s signature instrument since 1975, has had many iterations and evolutions since Michigan guitar tech Larry Pless first brought it to life, working from a crude design Bootsy had sketched on a napkin. “The Space Bass is what I imagined in my head,” Bootsy remembers. “It wasn’t just the design of it as a star, but it was what it was gonna sound like.”
Bootsy has worked with various luthiers and manufacturers to produce new iterations since working with Pless, including Washburn Guitars and Germany’s Warwick. After producing a custom Space Bass for Bootsy with 165 LEDs in 2012, the latter approached him with the idea to make a consumer version available for the first time.
The result was the Warwick RockBass Artist Line Bootsy Collins Space Bass, a limited-edition, purple, 34" long-scale, Mahogany-body, four-string electric bass (see full list of specs below) produced in 2014. Of course, one of the basses from the run had to go to Bootsy for testing and safe-keeping, which he’s now made available complete with his signature.
Specs
Matched Headstock: Matching Headstock with Bootsy-Logo
Machine heads: Warwick machine heads
Nut: Just-A-Nut III
Neck Wood: Maple with Ekanga Veneer stripes
Fretboard: Rosewood
Inlay: Star Inlays
Fingerboard Radius: 20"
Scale length: Scale length: 34" (long scale)
Fret quantity material and size: 24 nickel silver frets (width: 2,9mm/ height: 1,3mm)
Body Shape: flat Body Shape
Bodywood (Topwood / Backwood): Mahogany
Pickups: active MEC J/TJ
Electronics: active MEC 2 way electronic
Pot layout: Volume P/P / Balance / Treble/Bass stacked P/P for spliting coils
Pickguard: Purple Pickguard
Bridge system: 2-piece Warwick bridge
Strap system: Warwick security locks
Construction: Bolt-on
Left Righthand: Only available as right-handed and fretted
Color: Special purple Bootsy Finish
Hardware color: Chrome Hardware
String label/gauges: Warwick Red strings: 4-string: 045" - 105" (42200 M)
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