Our Technology

To our luck there was only one provider of synthetic resin and one distributor for carbon fibre in the 80ies in Germany, so the best recipe for the manufacturing of our basses could be found very quickly. Today there is a vast number of suppliers of artificial resin and many distributors of more or less high quality carbon fibre. Therefore the Know-How acquired then is an invaluable advantage.

The technology that was applied back then was the simple hand laminating technique. In this process many layers of carbon fibre were laminated onto each other with synthetic resin. This laminate was then laid into the wooden neck cast together with the foam core (the inner part of the carbon fibre neck so to speak). The casts were then closed from above with the cover and laid onto a spindle press. Through the pressure of the spindles the excessive synthetic resin was pressed out of the cast and the carbon fibres pressed together. After demoulding, the necks had to be baked at 180° F (80° C) for several hours to achieve the desired strength in the material. This process had the great advantage of being a low cost solution for the neck shapes. Also the results (the necks themselves) turned out very well and could easily be compared to competing products from the UK, France and the US.

Today the carbon necks are made in the vacuum high temperature process. This type of process has various advantages: the necks are more homogeneous and offer maximum stability and resonance behavior. We have chosen this very expensive process to insure our basses are fitted with the best possible necks.

The Bogart Body is a mixture of a conventional wood body and our patented Blackstone Body, read more about this under “Components”.