After several attempts to move the business to larger, better equipped facilities, I sold Tobias Guitars to Gibson on 1/1/90. The first Tobias Gibson serial number was 1094. At that point, Gibson was instrumental in moving us to a bigger shop in Burbank and setting us up with a great spray booth and dust collection system. NOTE - Gibson USA goes to a 9 digit serial number in early July 2005. The sixth number is now a batch number- batch 0 starts at the beginning of the day, and once we stamp 699, the batch number will change to 1. The first 5 numbers remain the same, the last 3 numbers will remain the same. Navya serial video download. The only difference is the addition of this batch indicator.
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Musical instruments |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1977; 42 years ago |
| Founder | Michael Tobias |
| Headquarters | Orlando, Florida, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | bass guitars |
| Parent | Gibson |
| Website | Tobias home page |
Tobias is a brand of bass guitar originally made by luthierMichael Tobias starting in the 1970s and later bought out by Gibson Guitar Corporation. Tobias Guitars was established in Orlando, Florida in April 1977.
History[edit]
The vast majority of Tobias Basses are of neck-through construction, a style of neck-body assembly where the neck of the instrument is a single piece of wood that extends through the body and had the sides of the bass glued to it rather than being bolted on. However, once purchased by Gibson in 1990, a few bolt-on models were produced such as the Killer-B[1] (with the 'B' in the name standing for 'bolt-on') as well as the Growler[2] Basses. Tobias basses also were among the first to feature an asymmetrical neck, a design where the neck is thinner on the lower side than the upper.[3]
The first serial number was 0178, instead of the usual 0001, as a reference to the month the first bass was completed, January 1978.[4]
In 1990 Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville. The first Tobias bass under Gibson ownership bore the serial number 1094. 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. 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 in which Tobias worked with Gibson and continued to produce basses.[5]
Products[edit]
Gibson Tobias Bass
- Growler 4/5
- Renegade 4
- Renegade 5
- Toby Standard
- Toby Deluxe IV
- Toby Deluxe V
- Toby Pro 4
- Toby Pro 5
References[edit]
- ^'Tobias Killer B Bass'. Gibson.com. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ^'Tobias Growler Bass'. Gibson.com. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ^'Tobias Basses - The Classics'. Gibson.com. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
- ^'MTD History'. Mtdbass.com. Archived from the original on 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2012-02-03.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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External links[edit]
- Michael Tobias Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2005)