Saturday, March 31, 2007

Electric Upright Bass (EUB)






Decided to try something a little different this time. I made a bass. Body is flamed maple. Fingerboard is cocobolo. There are three types of pickups - P-Bass, Jazz-Bass, and Piezo. I made the piezo and built it into the bridge. There is a Fishman preamp built in to support the piezo. The fingerboard has a 2.8" radius so that it can be bowed. The fingerboard is fretless, but since I'm not really a good bass player, I inlayed lines where frets would normally go so that I'd have a reference for fingering. Rather than do the classical scroll on the tuning box, I carved a birds head.

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