Spector

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Spector
Industry Luthiery
Founder(s) Stuart Spector
Headquarters Saugerties, NY, United States
Area served Worldwide
Key people Stuart Spector
Products Bass guitars

Spector (Stuart Spector Design, LTD.) is an American-based company that manufactures bass guitars and electric guitars, founded in 1974 by self-taught luthier Stuart Spector. Spector's first few instruments were essentially experiments in instrument design and craftsmanship facilitated by his desire to build an instrument for his own use. Over the next few years, the design and construction process was refined and in 1976, with the help of furniture designer Ned Steinberger, the company developed its most popular design, the NS-Bass (production started in 1977).

Currently, Spector produces several bass guitar and electric guitar lines. They are:

  • Signature Artist Series basses - Copies of famous customized models played by Spector Signature Artists produced in the USA, Czech Republic and Korea
  • USA Series Basses - Made by hand in Saugerties, NY (Woodstock, NY) by Stuart Spector and a small handful of master craftsmen.
  • Europe Series Basses - Precision made in the Czech Republic, these are production versions of the hand-made USA Series basses.
  • Korean-Professional Series Basses - Finely crafted production basses manufactured in Korea for Spector
  • USA Series Electric Guitars - Made by hand in the same Saugerties, NY Workshop as the famous Spector bass models, there are several models including bolt-on neck and set-neck designs
  • Korean-Professional Series Electric Guitars - A production version of the USA Series ARC6 Electric Guitar model is made in the same Korean factory as the Korean-Professional Series bass models.

Spector Model History

For a complete listing of all past models made by Spector please visit the Official Stuart Spector Design Website - http://www.spectorguitars.com/models/index.html

Facts About Spector

  • Vinny Fodera (founder of Fodera Fodera) was the first full-time employee of Spector Guitar Company, he was 17 years-old when he started working for Stuart Spector.
  • Award Winning Instrument Designer Ned Steinberger also got his start designing instruments with Stuart Spector. The NS-Bass is named for Ned who created the design from an earlier model by Stuart called the SB-1.
  • Stuart developed the deep-pocket insert bolt-on neck design
  • The first 20 Ken Smith basses were built by Stuart Spector and Vinny Fodera at Spector's Brooklyn workshop while Ken Smith was getting his shop put together.
  • The balanced, smaller body design of the NS-Bass with its curved and contoured body influenced multiple designers and guitar manufacturers including Warwick, Ibanez, Sukop and others.

Artists who use Spector basses

See also

References

  • Roberts (May 2003). American Basses (First ed.). Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-721-8.  Unknown parameter |name= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Tony Bacon (June 1995). The Bass Book. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-368-9.  Unknown parameter |name= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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