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Balor 5 String Bass

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Take your bass playing to new depths with the Balor 5 string bass. Featuring an added low b string for more options across the fretboard, experience the powerful tones of the balor 5 string bass. The Balor bass from Emerald is the ultimate acoustic bass. With a big, bold powerful tone and projection, this bass excels at being heard when unplugged, and with a range of pickup options, you can take it to the stage or studio.

Our unique carbon fiber construction features a body ergonomically contoured for hours of comfortable playing. Boasting incredible strength and stability, all of our instruments are ready for life in unforgiving climates as well as touring or travelling.

With both fretted and fretless options available, we have something to suit any playing style.

Discover the amazing custom options in our 3D builder and design your dream bass today.

Make sure to read our 3D builder guide below.

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The Emerald 3D Guitar Builder is the world’s most advanced custom design platform, with more options than you can shake a guitar pick at…

Design your dream guitar down to the last detail with the Emerald 3D Guitar Builder. Want to change your guitar’s color and hardware? No problem! Want to choose from over 40 veneer types to make your guitar truly unique? You got it!

emerald guitars balor 5 string bass acoustic guitar
emerald guitars balor 5 string bass acoustic guitar
emerald guitars balor 5 string bass acoustic guitar
emerald guitars balor 5 string bass acoustic guitar

But that’s just the beginning. The Emerald 3D Guitar Builder lets you choose from a variety of pick-ups, strings, neck widths, fret radius, and scale lengths, so you can create the guitar that feels and sounds just right for you. 

And with an interface that’s as intuitive as it is fun, you can design your dream guitar in no time at all. So, whether you’re a seasoned pro or a beginner, let your imagination run wild and get ready to rock out with your very own custom-made Emerald Guitar!

Colour Options

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Colour options for Emerald Guitars 3D builder
emerald guitars balor 5 string bass acoustic guitar

Customize your guitar using our 3D Builder to select between standard or vibrant weave carbon fiber options.

Standard weave offers a darker pattern, while vibrant weave boasts a brighter, more lively pattern, accentuating a broader array of tones across the available colors.

With up to eight color choices available to complement the carbon fiber on each model, our 3D Builder is the ultimate canvas for personalization.

Real Wood Veneer

While tone is key, aesthetics are an important consideration in guitar design. Some players love the look of carbon fiber, and its aesthetic impact. 

Selection of Emerald Guitars Veneer choices

OVER 40

Selection of Emerald Guitars Veneer choices

VENEER

TYPES

Others prefer the wood look. If you’re a fan of beautiful veneers, we have a remarkable and ever-changing selection of over 40 real wood veneers.

Your chosen veneer will be crafted into the top of the instrument for the best of both worlds: the stability and reliability of our carbon fiber construction and the natural beauty of an exotic wood veneer.

Pickup & Bridge Options

We choose our pickups from the finest manufacturers from around the world to suit the needs of our players and to best capture and reproduce the wonderful tones on offer from our instruments.

Each Emerald model has its own distinct voice, and our 3D Guitar Builder will guide you in choosing the most suitable pickups for each guitar. 

Emerald Inlay Design

Make your guitar yours with a selection of custom neck inlays. A range of patterns are available, many of which feature Celtic designs, in a nod to Emerald Guitars’ Irish heritage and the rural landscape in which the instruments are crafted.

You can also customize a message on the 12th fret, adding an extra layer of personalization to your dream guitar, making it uniquely yours. 
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New era of custom guitar design

When choosing the elements for each part of your custom guitar, you’ll see the updated choices live-as-you-go in the 3D Builder. You can even change the environment in which you view the guitars, switching from a standard white studio background to the Emerald Cottage, to see how your guitar looks in different scenarios.

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Hi-Tech Carbon

Carbon fiber is now used in all the most high tech industries from Aerospace to Formula one Racing where strength and weight is paramount. In fact it was in Formula One Power Boat racing that we discovered that the properties of carbon fiber are also perfectly suited to guitar making creating a lightweight structure that holds up under the tension of the strings while resonating freely with the lightest touch.

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Weather Resistant

If you have ever traveled with a guitar you will know just how much temperature and humidity changes can effect the structure, tuning stability and tone of a guitar. This is where carbon fibre construction really excells. Now you can take your guitar from a cold car to a warm stage without worrying that your going to go out of tune after the first strum. 

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Unique Manufacturing Process
Over the years Emerald have refined their unique one piece moulding technology that allows the entire guitar to be moulded together in one piece. 
The entire neck and body are moulded together in one piece giving a guitar that is incredibly strong and stable with no joints to fail and this in turn makes a guitar with incredible resonance and sustain.

Balor Bass Videos

Video Playlist
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First Impressions of our new acoustic bass with James Blennerhassett
First Impressions of our new acoustic bass with James Blennerhassett
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On Location RCC - Michael - Balor 5 String
On Location RCC - Michael - Balor 5 String
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Emerald Guitars - Balor Bass
Emerald Guitars - Balor Bass
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Emerald Cottage : Joe and Kevin | X30 & Balor Bass.
Emerald Cottage : Joe and Kevin | X30 & Balor Bass.
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On Location: Michael | 4 String Balor Bass | Emerald Guitars
On Location: Michael | 4 String Balor Bass | Emerald Guitars
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Emerald Guitars - Select Series (Aug &#03917)
Emerald Guitars - Select Series (Aug ཌྷ)
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Matt Bissonette reviews a frettless Balor Acoustic Bass
Matt Bissonette reviews a frettless Balor Acoustic Bass
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Billy Sheehan Reviews The Balor Acoustic Bass (Emerald Guitars)
Billy Sheehan Reviews The Balor Acoustic Bass (Emerald Guitars)
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Acoustic Bass - Strings Comparison (Emerald Guitars)
Acoustic Bass - Strings Comparison (Emerald Guitars)
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Emerald Guitars: Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass) "Time"
Emerald Guitars: Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass) "Time"
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Emerald Guitars: Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass)  "Flat out till five"
Emerald Guitars: Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass) "Flat out till five"
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Emerald Guitars: Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass) "Learning to Run"
Emerald Guitars: Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass) "Learning to Run"
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Emerald Guitars Balor Bass Samples (5 String Acoustic Bass Guitar)
Emerald Guitars Balor Bass Samples (5 String Acoustic Bass Guitar)
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Emerald Guitars Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass Guitar)
Emerald Guitars Balor Bass (5 String Acoustic Bass Guitar)
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Sailor Bill | Emerald Guitars
Sailor Bill | Emerald Guitars
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The most lightweight and comfortable #bassguitar ever made.
The most lightweight and comfortable #bassguitar ever made.
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Starfield (an original)
Starfield (an original)
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Last of the Mohicans (Acoustic guitar instrumental)
Last of the Mohicans (Acoustic guitar instrumental)
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Mad World 3 part Acoustic (Gary Jules) Cover and Arr. by Kord Semrow
Mad World 3 part Acoustic (Gary Jules) Cover and Arr. by Kord Semrow
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Depth of Sound

There isn’t anything that even approaches the depth of sound, the overall volume, and the ‘Low C on the B-String to upper G on the 24th Fret of the G String’ clarity, anywhere in the acoustic bass guitar world.
- Luke Monroe
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