The Story
Andy Irvine of The Daily Funk Club shared some pictures of this bass on Facebook and it made me stop scrolling. The Picasso by KD Basses is a colorful, artistic take on the instrument made in Bulgaria.
The bass’s body is built with an Elm core, but luthier Kostadin Dimitrov covered it with an irregularly-shaped piece of maple burl in 10 different colors. The mosaic also extends up the fingerboard and headstock. Its neck is a seven-piece laminate of flamed maple, ebony, and purpleheart.
The Picasso’s pickups are handmade KD humbuckers that blend into the top’s artistic pattern. Electronics include a passive/active 3-band EQ with mini-switches to toggle each pickup between series and parallel operation.
