Duff Beer Man Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 A buddy of mine wants me to custom build him a new bass, i have the wood and everything picked out to make this the mother of all projects. But i started wondering how different is building basses then guitars? I can build guitars good (least from what im told when people play mine) so any help would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primal Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 A buddy of mine wants me to custom build him a new bass, i have the wood and everything picked out to make this the mother of all projects. But i started wondering how different is building basses then guitars? I can build guitars good (least from what im told when people play mine) so any help would be great. ← Other than needing a beefier neck than what you would need for a guitar (unless you use some CF reinforcment), its not much different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b5111987 Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 A buddy of mine wants me to custom build him a new bass, i have the wood and everything picked out to make this the mother of all projects. But i started wondering how different is building basses then guitars? I can build guitars good (least from what im told when people play mine) so any help would be great. ← not that diffret just got to thid about scale lenght and pickup placement and also u gotta make sure the neck is secure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff Beer Man Posted July 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 Yeah, well he is giving me 1000 bucks for supplys and what i dont use on supplys i keep for myself he said so i just want to make sure i make a bad ass bass for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 $1,000 should *just* cover the cost of a bad-ass bass. Save $20 to buy yourself a 24 of your favourite beer, and it's a done deal. Any design ideas yet? Depending on how many strings it's going to be, I've noticed that some of our builders and some other custom builders reinforce the heck out of the neck, using dual truss rods and/or graphite (or is it carbon fibre?) rods. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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