Well a few years ago at the NCWoodWorker annual picnic, I won a book entitled Make your own electric guitar & bass. Steve Coles handed me the book and said do you plan on making a guitar anytime soon? I said no, but I'll take the book anyways. After reading it cover to cover, I got inspired and came up with a full size drawing of the bass I always wanted but no one ever made. Building this bass will be a long term project, with a huge learning curve... Although the book is pretty good, it really just scratches the surface on the subject, and I'm comfortable with the wood working involved. There are lots of other aspects to building a guitar that I've never done before. So I've been doing a lot of on-line studying trying to find answers to questions that pop up. Any pointers to good books or further study material would be greatly appreciated.
Semi-hollow bass, 33.5" scale 20 frets, 45 1/2" x 14" x 2" thick body. It's work in progress full scale drawing, everything is to scale, if you DL the image and print it without any boarders. I'm not happy with the modern bridge at this point, that's one thing that will change. I think I may go with wooden tailpiece and old school bridge instead, just need to find the right tailpiece design.
Thanks
Semi-hollow bass, 33.5" scale 20 frets, 45 1/2" x 14" x 2" thick body. It's work in progress full scale drawing, everything is to scale, if you DL the image and print it without any boarders. I'm not happy with the modern bridge at this point, that's one thing that will change. I think I may go with wooden tailpiece and old school bridge instead, just need to find the right tailpiece design.
Thanks