Our 8-string switchable stereo/mono fretboard tapping instrument is favored by people who want to play bass parts. The fretboard is the same width as the original Stick, with a wider string spacing because it has fewer strings. Each new instrument features our latest adjustable components for easy setup. A wide variety of ordering options allow you to customize your instrument with your choice of exotic hardwood laminates, tunings, string gauges, pickup configurations, MIDI, and even the inlay material.

detail shots (click image for larger view) SB8 links: Components Ordering Options Price List Instrument Order Form Emmett's original SB8 article Customer Commentary on the SB8 The SB8 also offers two basic inlay pattern options. Dots in the bass guitar pattern (see right), available in white pearl, abalone or paua (also black pearl on maple Sticks). Lines in the regular "Stick" pattern of 4ths, with all acrylic colors available. In addition to the basic package, we also recommend that our customers get Emmett's Free Hands instruction book and/or Greg Howard's The Stick Book, Volume One™. For more information about these books see instructional materials.

nut and damper Block™ pickup module bass guitar dot inlay pattern

Don Schiff plays his composition, "A Great Ship Named Hal" on the Stick Bass a Chapdoc video