Nowadays, Tobias bass guitars are sold under the Epiphone division.

The vast majority of Tobias instruments 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.

[4] The first serial number was 0178, instead of the usual 0001, as a reference to the month the first bass was completed, January 1978.

[5] In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville.

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.