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For those of you that have a warm spot in your heart for bass, here is the progress on my first attempt at "bass luthiery".











Comments, critiques, disgust? Lemme know what ya think.
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You carved that scroll and volute?

I'm impressed. Nice. Real nice.

Do you buy the pieces/parts for assembly, or are you carving this by hand?

either way....very cool.

That's nice. Ever build an EUB? Want to?

Everything has been done by hand. I did use a band saw and jointer to get started but other than that it has all been hand tools; chisels, gouges, knives, planes etc.

EUB? Actually, I was considering making that my next project. I have an overseas tour coming up next summer and really don't want to ship my bass over for the thing, so...an electric seemed like the clearest alternative. We'll see though, I need to finish this bass first.

wow thats cool. the bracing is intense. cant wait to hear what is sounds like! wanna re-plain and reglue a board on me old engelhardt? what kind of music you gonna be doing with that beast?

damn.

jschall84 wrote:wow thats cool. the bracing is intense. cant wait to hear what is sounds like! wanna re-plain and reglue a board on me old engelhardt? what kind of music you gonna be doing with that beast?

I can take a look at if for you. PM me.

Music? What ever happens! I've got irons in a few fires right now, so I get to play a pretty good variety of stuff- rock, folk, jazz, funk, bluegrass, even a bit of classical every now and then. Hopefully I won't get the chance to play much on it though. The plan is to sell it so I can fund the next one.

:raises hand: How much?

bassjones wrote::raises hand: How much?

The varnish and strings come before the price tag.

well, put me down as interested. let me know once you have a ballpark idea.

No problem.

Wow! That's looking really nice.

That's looking great Aren. Really nice work!!

Thanks for the kind words. The real test will be to play it. I've got my fingers crossed.