Tino Tedesco Instruments

Custom Instruments - Basses & Guitars

I sincerely appreciate your interest in Tino Tedesco Instruments!

Our efforts in the last couple of years have been directed towards experimenting with neck – body wood combinations, various scales, headstock sizes, overall weight of the instruments, electronics, pickups, fret size and string size. In my honest opinion, I think that with our instruments we have achieved a level of precision, playability, comfort and sound concept that is unseen in other comparable instruments.

We are extremely proud of our 5 string basses in particular as they have a great tonal authority right down to the low B without compromising pitch, clarity and punch. We use only the absolute best quality components to build our instruments and are convinced that, if well cared for, they will last a lifetime.

We have always strived to build a tool for the dedicated musician that makes him or her immediately feel at ease. Our instruments are “ready for work” so to say…

We offer 4 models, all in 4 string or 5 string versions, the 24 fret model is also available as a 6 string, fretted or fretless!

... and our latest model, the BIG BOY!! available in a 4 or 5 string version!

pine, mahogany, alder, poplar or swamp ash bodies
C shaped hard rock maple necks with the choice of maple, bird’s eye maple, wenge, macassar ebony or pau ferro fretboards
34.5″ scale
A contoured neck heel and recessed neck washers are standard to facilitate playing in higher registers.
Standard hardware are hipshot ultralight tuners and ultralight aluminum bridges
Dunlop straplocks are standard on all instruments.

Standard on all models

34.5″ scale
graphite reinforced bolt–on maple neck, pauferro fretboard
4 bolt neck attachment
12” radius on fretboard, 14″ radius on the 6/24 model
19mm string spacing @ bridge, 18mm on the 6/24 model
solid or transparent colors
chrome or black hardware
high quality gigbag or softcase 
we offer a 2 year limited warranty to the original purchaser

Options

maple fretboard (quartersawn or flatsawn)
roasted maple fretboards and neck shafts
3A bird’s eye maple fretboard
macassar ebony fretboard
wenge neck
wenge fretboard
custom top woods
matching headstock
gold hardware
“old school” look (pickguard and control plate)
block inlays (white pearl, black, black pearl, paua abalam)
neck binding
bartolini soapbars
nordstrand soapbars
aguilar soapbars
emg pickups
nordstrand preamps
audere 3 band or 4 band preamps
aguilar obp-1
aguilar obp-2
aguilar obp-3
emg preamps 
sound-chambers

We also build guitars!