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St. Germaine Guitars

Luthier Geoff St. Germaine

Bass guitars crafted from the finest woods, hardware and electronics in Halifax, Canada

12/14/2025

This beast of a bridge just arrived from ETS in Germany. Another example of their amazing quality and design ability. This is a completely unique bridge built to the specifications to make a very unique 18-string bass come to life for one of my clients.

12/09/2025

Josh’s 7-string Shrike bass is complete and ready to leave the shop. There are lots of cool customizations on this bass.

Shrike v2 7-String Hollowbody
F # to C tuning
34” scale, 15.5 mm bridge spacing, 60 mm nut
Extra thick Northern Ash hollowbody
Quilted Maple top
Black Walnut and Purpleheart neck
Cocobolo fretboard
Kahler 2400 series tremolo bridge
Gotoh GB350 tuners
Delano Quad Coil pickups
Flexcore 4-band EQ preamp
Dual truss rods
Carbon fibre neck reinforcement
Stainless steel frets
Scalloped brass nut
Burgundy dye with satin lacquer
Access Stage 5 case

12/02/2025

A client of mine has two Rhea basses for sale. If you’re interested, please let me know me know and I can get you more details and put you in touch.

11/17/2025

Paul’s Custom 5-String Multiscale Bass is shipping today!

Key specs:
36.5” to 34” multiscale 5-string with 18 mm bridge spacing
Bartolini 58P neck and P25C Quad coil
Bartolini NTMB preamp with Noll treble/passive tone control
Hipshot Solo bridges
Graph Tech Ratio tuners
Alder body with Spalted Maple top
3-piece Maple neck
Ebony fretboard with Bloodwood, Flamed Maple and Claro Walnut inlay
UV cured gloss finish
DR Dragon Skin+ Multiscale QN strings
Access Stage 5 case

11/10/2025

Assemble!

11/06/2025

Laurence’s bass is completed and on its way to him.

Key specs:

30.75” scale, 16.5 mm bridge spacing
Riviera RBBS bridge and RBBSH string locks
MJS pickups dual-coil pickups
Trickfish Flexcore 4-band EQ preamp with passive tone control
Holly facings on roasted American Cherry wings
Black Walnut tone block
White Oak neck
Gabon Ebony fretboard
Flexstrong truss rod
Carbon fibre neck reinforcement
Stainless steel medium/vintage size fretwire
Magnetic cover plates in grain-matched roasted American Cherry
Oil and wax finish
Access Cases and Bags Stage 5 case

10/21/2025

This Rhea 6-string headless bass is headed to

Specs:
840 mm scale (33”)
16.5 mm bridge spacing, 54 mm nut
Claro Walnut Burl wing facings
American Cherry wings
Black Walnut tone block
White Oak and Purpleheart neck
Obsidian Ebony fretboard
headless bridge
RBBSH string locks
low Z dual coil pickupsca dual filter preamplifier
Flexstrong truss rod
Carbon fibre neck reinforcement
26 stainless steel medium frets
Dragon Skin+ Quantum Nickel strings
Stage 5 soft case

10/20/2025

Bernie’s 5-string Rhea is ready to ship!

Specs:
840 mm (33”) scale length
16.5 mm bridge spacing, 45 mm nut
Buckeye Burl top
Black Walnut wings
3-piece White Oak neck
White Oak tone block
Purpleheart, Wenge, Flamed Maple accents
Gabon Ebony fretboard
28 stainless steel Mandolin size frets
Custom Shop NYC 5 dual coil pickups (custom string spacing)
Passive VVT controls with CTS pots and Orange Drop cap
Aluminum electronics cover
flush mount Stap Lok system
Stage 5 soft case
Oil and wax finish

Address

Halifax, NS

Telephone

2505168545

Website

http://www.stgermaineguitars.com/

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