The Essential Series represents Belforti’s essential line of bass guitars — designed with a focus on simplicity, functionality, and sonic identity. These instruments prioritize essential features without compromise on quality, offering professional-grade tone and playability in a straightforward package.
Built with selected tonewoods and reliable hardware, the E-Series emphasizes a clean design, efficient ergonomics, and robust construction. It avoids unnecessary embellishments to focus on delivering a pure and effective instrument that feels intuitive and inspiring for the player.
The E-Series stands for clarity, balance, and versatility — offering instruments that are accessible but crafted with the same care and attention to detail as Belforti’s higher-end models.
About the Vēa 5 Essential - Ostara
The Vēa 5 Essential – Ostara is a 5-string bass crafted for musicians who value precision, artistry, and sonic depth. Named after the Germanic goddess of spring and renewal, the Ostara edition transforms a player's instrument into a singular objet d'art — while remaining, above all, a working bass built to perform.
Built around a lightweight red alder body, the Vēa 5 Essential delivers a warm, focused tone with excellent clarity. The birdseye Norwegian maple neck adds stability and natural brightness, while the Macassar ebony fretboard provides a fast, responsive feel under the fingers. Rounded block inlays offer a refined visual detail without compromising the instrument's clean aesthetic.
With a 34-inch scale length, a 12–16 inch compound radius, and 24 medium frets, this bass offers a modern and versatile platform suited to a wide range of playing styles — from intricate fingerstyle lines to percussive slap technique. The S-profile neck shape ensures comfort and ease of play, whether on stage or in the studio.
Like all instruments in the Essential Series, the Vēa 5 Essential is designed as a player's tool first — reliable, well-balanced, and crafted with attention to every detail. The Ostara edition goes further, pairing that foundation with a one-of-a-kind hand-finished exterior that makes this bass as visually distinctive as it is musically capable.
Quick Specs
Number of strings : 5
Scale Length : Standard - 34"
Number of frets : 24
Neck Profile : S
Fretboard Radius : Modern 12" to 16"
Body : Red Alder
Neck : Norwegian Birdseye Maple
Fretboard : Macassar Ebony
Inlay : Rounded Blocks
Inlay Material : Black Plastic
Main Color : Ostara Limited Edition
Accent Color :
Core Features
These are the core features common to all Belforti Guitars and Basses :
Made in France
PLEK Treatment
Rated Tonewoods
No Heel Design
Invisible Fret Tangs
Radiused Fret Slots
Angled Full Length Carbon Reinforcements
Easy Truss Rod Access
Selected Bone Nuts
Choice of Pickups & Electronics
UltraThin Polyurethane
Warranty
Every Belforti instrument comes with a comprehensive warranty covering manufacturing defects and workmanship for a lifetime. This warranty ensures quality and craftsmanship. Exclusions apply. For any issues, contact our support team for prompt resolution. Enjoy peace of mind knowing your instrument is backed by our commitment to excellence.
Delivery
Production time
Between 6 and 8 months
*If the instrument is in stock, shipping occurs within days.
Delivery
Orders are shipped from France, ensuring no extra fees within the European Union. For customers outside the EU—such as those in Norway, Switzerland, or Iceland—local import fees and duties will be applied based on your country's regulations.
Guitars and large items benefit from fast, free* delivery via DHL Express with On Demand Delivery, allowing you to track and manage your shipment throughout its journey.
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Vēa 5 - Essential
About this bass
The Vēa 5 Essential – Ostara is a 5-string bass crafted for musicians who value precision, artistry, and sonic depth. Named after the Germanic goddess of spring and renewal, the Ostara edition transforms a player's instrument into a singular objet d'art — while remaining, above all, a working bass built to perform.
Built around a lightweight red alder body, the Vēa 5 Essential delivers a warm, focused tone with excellent clarity. The birdseye Norwegian maple neck adds stability and natural brightness, while the Macassar ebony fretboard provides a fast, responsive feel under the fingers. Rounded block inlays offer a refined visual detail without compromising the instrument's clean aesthetic.
With a 34-inch scale length, a 12–16 inch compound radius, and 24 medium frets, this bass offers a modern and versatile platform suited to a wide range of playing styles — from intricate fingerstyle lines to percussive slap technique. The S-profile neck shape ensures comfort and ease of play, whether on stage or in the studio.
Like all instruments in the Essential Series, the Vēa 5 Essential is designed as a player's tool first — reliable, well-balanced, and crafted with attention to every detail. The Ostara edition goes further, pairing that foundation with a one-of-a-kind hand-finished exterior that makes this bass as visually distinctive as it is musically capable.
Each of our instruments is carefully handcrafted in Paris, France, using the highest standards of craftsmanship and the finest materials. At Belforti Instruments, we focus on precision and quality to create durable, high-performance guitars and basses that meet the needs of serious musicians. Every instrument is a testament to our commitment to exceptional sound and design
Features
Features
Overview
The E-Series is the entryway to the Belforti experience—no compromises, justessentials. Here, you'll find a focus ondurability, playability, andtone. Craftsmanship takes center stage, ensuring each instrument leaves our workshop ready to impress. Perfect for the budding musician or the casual player, our E-Series offers straightforward functionality without sacrificing quality.
As a part of this Series, this instrument features the following :
Premium Grade Woods
Our E-Series is equiped with the entry level of the Belforti Wood Library. These woods have been selected, aged, and rated according to our wood rating method.
All the Premium grade pieces are rated between 71 and 80, above most pieces found on the market, ensuring you get exceptional tonality and a beautiful aesthetic, right from the start.
3 Piece Neck
The E-Series features a robust 3-piece neck construction that enhances both the instrument's stability and resonance. Utilizing three individual pieces of wood, this design approach significantly minimizes the potential for warping or twisting over time, ensuring your guitar's longevity.
Wooden Painted Pickguard
We hate plastic, so the E-Series comes equiped with a wooden pickguard that is painted with your Accent Color.
Belforti Colors
E-Series feature a Main Color and an Accent Color, chosen from our extensive library of 82 custom colorrs.
Shape
Shape
Vēa
The Vēa shape evolves the Precision-style bass into a form that’s more balanced, comfortable, and structurally refined.
Its symmetrical, non-offset design offers improved ergonomics and weight distribution, uniting classic authority with modern playability.
Core Specs
Core Specs
Number of strings : 5
Expanded-range bass adding a low B string. Increases versatility and extended low-end access while maintaining familiar 4-string playability with a slightly wider neck.
Scale Length : Standard - 34"
The industry-standard bass scale length. Offers a balanced feel between string tension, playability, and clarity. Ideal for versatile playing styles and compatible with most bass string sets.
Number of frets : 24
Extended-range configuration offering two full octaves per string. Ideal for soloing, technical playing, and modern styles requiring upper-register access.
Neck Profile : S
Slim, fast neck shape with reduced thickness. Optimized for speed, smaller hands, or players seeking maximum comfort and agility.
Radius : Modern 12" to 16"
Flatter fretboard radius for fast playing, low action, and effortless bending. Ideal for technical and contemporary playing styles.
Woods
Woods
Body : Alder
Alder is a lightweight, closed-grain hardwood known for its uniform density and stability. Its relatively soft texture makes it easy to machine and finish. Alder vibrates evenly across its surface, producing a balanced energy response. It is a standard choice for electric guitars due to its consistency and reliability.
Neck : Norwegian Maple
Maple is a classic neck wood prized for its density, stiffness, and stability. It offers a snappy response and clean vibration transfer. Its medium weight and closed grain provide excellent resistance to warping. Maple is highly reliable for precision neck construction and offers a bright, clean visual aesthetic.
Fretboard : Indian Rosewood
Indian Rosewood is a dense, oily hardwood with a naturally smooth feel. Its open pores provide excellent grip and tactile comfort. Highly stable across climates, it resists wear and moisture absorption. Its dark brown hues often feature subtle figuring, giving fretboards a warm and classic visual appearance.
Options
Options
This is a list of the non standard options featured on this instrument
Matching Headstock
Ostara Limited Edition Finish
Colors
Ostara Limited Edition
The Ostara finish is a fully handcrafted artwork applied directly to the instrument's body — a celebration of spring, nature, and botanical detail rendered in paint, shell, and light.
The body is finished in a soft, luminous mauve — a pale purple with a gloss depth that shifts subtly under stage and studio lighting. Across its surface, Scottish thistles bloom in full painterly detail: deep indigo and slate-blue flower heads surrounded by spiny, serpentine green foliage, each bloom individually rendered by hand. The vine work sprawls organically across the body, winding around the contours of the instrument in a way that feels alive and asymmetric.
Running through the composition, a trail of inlaid eggshell fragments catches the light differently from every angle — a mosaic technique that adds texture and iridescence to the design, creating a delicate counterpoint to the boldness of the painted thistles.
The fretboard extends the visual language of the finish, with a swirling green abalone inlay treatment that echoes the foliage motif from the body all the way up the neck.
No two Ostara instruments are alike. Each one is a unique, unrepeatable piece.
Electronics
The Essential Series comes equiped with our Classic Electronics.
It is meant to fit in any ensemble, any genre and to be as easy and straightforward as possible.
Fully passive circuits with simple controls.
More time to play, less time to worry about your sound
Pickups
2 Belforti AURA II-J
The AURA II-J is our take on a classic Jazz Bass Single Coil pickup, a harmonious blend of the iconic and the innovative.
With its core design centered around .42 plain enamel and scattered winding, combined with the power of Alnico 5 magnets, this pickup exudes a bass tone that seamlessly navigates between vintage nostalgia and the demands of today's sound.
It's meticulously engineered for bassists seeking both tradition and progression in their sound.
Circuit
Layout
Dual Volume
Tone
Orange Drop 0.47mfd Capacitors
Pure Tone Mono Jack
Onboard TOMA x Belforti PCB
What's included
Your instrument
How surprising !
Belforti Premium Gig Bag
Your Belforti deserves proper protection. So it comes with a signature padded gig bag themed after the series you chose.
Sturdy, weather-proof, and oh so cool !
Setup Tools
Your instrument comes completely setup and ready to play. But you might wanna tweak things up a bit later on, so we got you covered !
Certificate of Authenticity
A real Belforti deserves a certificate. Can't fake this up
Detailed Specs
GENERAL SPECS
Body Shape : Vēa
Number of Strings : 5
Scale Length : Standard - 34"
String Spacing : 17mm
Weight : 4kg
BODY, NECK & FRETBOARD
BODY
Body Wood : Red Alder
Body Wood Rating : 71.58R
Chambering : Non Chambered
NECK
Neck Wood : Norwegian Birdseye Maple
Neck Wood Rating : 75.98R
Neck Profile : S
Nut Width : 45mm
FRETBOARD
Fretboard Wood : Macassar Ebony
Fretboard Wood Rating : 74.56R
Fretboard Radius : Modern 12" to 16"
Number of Frets : 24
Fret Wire : Medium Nickel/Silver
FINISH
Main Color : Ostara Limited Edition
Accent Color :
Body Finish : Ultra Thin Gloss Polyurethane
Neck Finish : Ultra Thin Gloss Polyurethane
INLAYS & AESTHETICS
Inlay Design : Rounded Blocks
Inlay Material : Black Plastic
Knobs : Metal Knobs
Frontplate : No Frontplate
Backplate : Matching
Headstock : Matching
HARDWARE
Bridge : ABM Single Bridge
Tuners : Hipshot USA Ultralite
Hardware Color : Black
Side Dots : White Plastic Dots
Strings : Optima Chrome
ELECTRONICS
Configuration : Classic
Pickups : 2 Belforti AURA II-J
Layout :
Dual Volume
Tone
Orange Drop 0.47mfd Capacitors
Pure Tone Mono Jack
Onboard TOMA x Belforti PCB
Pots : CTS 250K - No Load Tone
Jack : Pure Tone Mono
Capacitor : .47mfd Orange Drop
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