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F SERIES BASS By Jon D’Auria
AS FAR BACK AS HE CAN REMEMBER, Tomm Stanley has always had an obsession with both playing bass and disassembling his instruments to figure out exactly how they worked. His
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curiosity with pickups, hardware, wood types, and electronic configurations fueled his dream to one day become a luthier and create bold innovations in bass building. While
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he now resides in New Zealand, his first attempts at constructing basses occurred during his time living in Antarctica in the early ’90s. But in moving on to warmer temperatures