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Sharp edges and hard contours is what I wanted for the Waran. While I was drawing my sketches, the 3D part of my brain was processing the third dimension at full speed, as usual.”

Why this is so important in the planning stage is something Meik will explain for the fretless bass Remington Steele, another premium bass from Le Fay.

“Le Fay basses always have many different radii along their edges. That’s what creates tension and release, lifts 2D curves or lets them deliberately fade. If that’s what the handling of the bass demands, the frames of our basses often even stand skew, without a moulding cutter ever coming into play during production.”

To avoid unrealistic passages at a later stage, when putting a design to paper you must already consider its viability and any eventualities, even in terms of just the outline.

For the Waran, the design of the cutaways was quite a hard nut to crack, because it can easily happen that a minor change in part of the outline can cause an aesthetic disaster on the opposite side of the body.

Reiner continues: “It got later and later that moonless dark night, and indeed my increasing tiredness and the consumption of a whole bottle of wine did finally bring about the breakthrough for the instrument’s unusual design.
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Slouched at the table like a sack of potatoes, my tired face resting on my left hand, I was using our CAD program to work on the spline points of the upper cutaway, when my elbow slipped off the edge of the table, my chin crashing towards to the tabletop and about to cause me immense pain upon impact. I must have momentarily fallen asleep. Full of adrenaline and woken with a start, I looked at the screen and was surprised to see that it had led to a loss of control of the mouse, which in turn had moved the selected spline points of the cutaway tip at least 15 cm further to the right.

A miracle! This breakthrough for an e-bass with a highly unusual design was a success: with elegant lines but yet somehow diabolical and evil. Click “Save”, and off to bed. The remaining work involved a bit of fine-tuning the next day and that’s how the Waran hatched out of its egg.” Reiner is convinced: this bass wanted to be built.

You want hammering pressure for your wild staccatos? In that case this divine power bass for self-confident individuals like yourself is exactly what you need. 

Contact Le Fay directly or one of the Le Fay dealers and try out this beast for yourself. It will take your breath away!