Overwater Perception 5 String Std Deluxe Bass with Hard Case - Commission Sale

Officially established in 1979, the Overwater story really begins two years earlier in 1977, in a cellar workshop in Londons’ Denmark Street, then the home of the UK’s ‘Tin Pan Alley’ – a centre for music publishers, recording studios and musical instrument stores and close to the ‘West End’ theatre land. 

Chris May and his then business partner Andy Preston soon became part of the thriving 1970’s London music scene – bringing together a team of craftsmen and technicians to make and repair guitars and basses for musicians working in and around the area. During this time Chris began to sow the seeds of Overwater’s unique four decade association with the community of freelance and session musicians who work in the studios and theatre pits in and around London’s West End.

Soon after a larger satellite workshop was established in the northern English city of Newcastle – and from there, the team progressed to it’s first little Overwater factory unit, high up in the Pennine hills, close to the ancient Market town of Alston and ‘The Overwater Guitar Company’ was born.