Watch our interview with Michael and Daniel here! MTD 435-21 4 string Bass guitar 1995 Korina Michael Tobias 36 3,750.00 3,525. MTD also sells a Kingston series of basses, made in China to Tobias’ specifications, and offers its consulting and development expertise to other manufacturers.ĭuring a meet up at the 2020 Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California, FBPO’s Jon Liebman spoke to Michael and his son about plans to have Daniel take over the business end of MTD, rare woods, acoustic ambitions and other topics. I sold that business in 1980 and moved to San Francisco to be partners in a short-lived manufacturing business called Sierra Guitars.
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The first serial number was 0178 - January 1978. With the assistance of his son Daniel and long-time friend and associate Charlie Knicely, he builds 10 instruments to order each month at his shop in New York state. Tobias Guitars was started in Orlando, Florida in April 1977. The brand, known for its neck-through construction approach to building basses, was purchased by Gibson in 1992. In the late 1970s, he founded the electric bass guitar company Tobias Guitars. At the beginning of his career, he focused mostly on acoustic instruments, working on Martins, Fenders, Kohnos, Ramierezes, banjos, mandolins and harp guitars, and even a couple of sitars. Tobias got his start as a luthier working at The Guitar Shop in Washington D.C. Michael Tobias and his company MTD (Michael Tobias Design) are known for making custom basses and guitars of the highest quality.
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Basses below the serial number 2044 were built in the California factory headed-up by Michael Tobias serial numbers after that were produced by Gibson with a transition period. Michael Tobias left the company in 1992 to found Michael Tobias Design which produces a line of hand-made basses similar in spirit to the older Tobias basses. The first Tobias bass under Gibson ownership bore the serial number 1094. Famed electric bass luthier and son talk on what’s next for MTDĮxclusive video interview with FBPO’s Jon Liebman In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville.
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