Feline

[SuperSeagull]

I am about to be in the privileged position of being gifted a bass, a custom built Feline based on a 57 P. It’s a maker I am not overly familiar with - any other Feline basses out there?

[Happy Jack]

Well someone was always going to do this ...

 

 

[ezbass]

Feline Guitars are a custom builder based in Croydon, headed up by Jonathon Law.

 

I had some dealings with them many years ago when I was local to them.

Edited January 25, 2023 by ezbass

[Russ]

Yep. As someone from the Cronx, I know Jonathan pretty well and he's worked on my basses on multiple occasions. Lovely bloke and he really knows his $h!t.

 

His custom stuff is really nice. He mostly does guitars, but he has made the occasional bass. He made a couple of copies of the Alembic Spider (the Explorer-shaped one) for a guy who played Entwistle in a Who cover band and they were fantastic basses. 

 

This is their site: 

https://felineguitars.com/pages/feline-bass-guitar-models

[shoulderpet]

1 hour ago, Russ said:

Yep. As someone from the Cronx, I know Jonathan pretty well and he's worked on my basses on multiple occasions. Lovely bloke and he really knows his $h!t.

 

His custom stuff is really nice. He mostly does guitars, but he has made the occasional bass. He made a couple of copies of the Alembic Spider (the Explorer-shaped one) for a guy who played Entwistle in a Who cover band and they were fantastic basses. 

 

This is their site: 

https://felineguitars.com/pages/feline-bass-guitar-models

I can agree with this, he has done some work for me and it has always been top notch

[Waddo Soqable]

I think I bought a few small bits and bobs from them, for something  I was putting together years ago. As I recall the guy I spoke to was very helpful with ideas, advice etc, and was quite happy to share, despite the fact I wasn't buying an expensive guitar from them. 

 

[SuperSeagull]

All sounds very promising. Looking forward to receiving the bass. 

[jazzyvee]

14 hours ago, Russ said:

Yep. As someone from the Cronx, I know Jonathan pretty well and he's worked on my basses on multiple occasions. Lovely bloke and he really knows his $h!t.

 

His custom stuff is really nice. He mostly does guitars, but he has made the occasional bass. He made a couple of copies of the Alembic Spider (the Explorer-shaped one) for a guy who played Entwistle in a Who cover band and they were fantastic basses. 

 

This is their site: 

https://felineguitars.com/pages/feline-bass-guitar-models

There is one on sale at the moment on Reverb

https://reverb.com/uk/item/59295212-feline-spider-bass-used

[fretmeister]

His guitars are fantastic.

 

If I was going get a custom Les Paul made I'd be using him without a doubt. He preserves all that is great about the original but makes them much more comfy and easy to play.

[Russ]

2 hours ago, fretmeister said:

His guitars are fantastic.

 

If I was going get a custom Les Paul made I'd be using him without a doubt. He preserves all that is great about the original but makes them much more comfy and easy to play.

For the djent-y crowd, he was also helping out the Blackmachine guys with their production backlog for quite a while, and they were/are fantastic guitars if you like a big dose of "chug" in your life.