Vēa 5 - Essential custom bass guitar by Belforti, high-end boutique luxury instrument with unique design.

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

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Features

Vēa 5 - Essential bass guitar, custom high-end boutique design by Belforti, featuring unique artwork and luxury craftsmanship.

Shape

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Core Specs

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Woods

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Options

Vēa 5 - Essential bass guitar by Belforti, custom boutique design with high-end luxury finish.

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.

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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

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GENERAL SPECS

Body Shape : Vēa

Number of Strings : 5

Scale Length : Standard - 34"

String Spacing : 17mm

Weight : 4kg

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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

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FINISH

Main Color : Ostara Limited Edition

Accent Color :

Body Finish : Ultra Thin Gloss Polyurethane

Neck Finish : Ultra Thin Gloss Polyurethane

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INLAYS & AESTHETICS

Inlay Design : Rounded Blocks

Inlay Material : Black Plastic

Knobs : Metal Knobs

Frontplate : No Frontplate

Backplate : Matching

Headstock : Matching

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HARDWARE

Bridge : ABM Single Bridge

Tuners : Hipshot USA Ultralite

Hardware Color : Black

Side Dots : White Plastic Dots

Strings : Optima Chrome

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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