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Jere:
Very cool bass, instrument making is definitely art form.  Not only does it have to look good, but it has to sound good too, something I imagine isn't easy to do.  Your bass reminds me of another custom bass maker, Carl Thompson.  http://www.ctbasses.com/
Discovered him, as one of my favorite bassists (Les Claypool) is one of his best customers.

Unfortunately I have almost no musical ability,
Jere

spuddevans:
Thanks Bernd  :thumbup:


--- Quote from: Jere on November 27, 2009, 01:07:07 PM ---Very cool bass, instrument making is definitely art form.  Not only does it have to look good, but it has to sound good too, something I imagine isn't easy to do.  Your bass reminds me of another custom bass maker, Carl Thompson.  http://www.ctbasses.com/
Discovered him, as one of my favorite bassists (Les Claypool) is one of his best customers.

Unfortunately I have almost no musical ability,
Jere

--- End quote ---

Well I feel very flattered, thank you very much for the compliment :bow: I looked at some of Carl Thompson's work and his craftmanship is outstanding. It looks like he does a lot of carving which is way beyond my abilities.

To shape the body outline on mine I made a template out of 1/4" mdf, honed and sanded it into the shape I wanted, then traced the outline onto the body, rough cut on the bandsaw, then I attached the template and used a table-mounted router with a copy bit installed that has a ballbearing that follows the template.

I'm not that good at hand shaping, so I used jigs and templates wherever I could.


Tim

spuddevans:
Oh, I forgot to say when mentioning about Stewmac, they have pretty much every guitar making tool you could ever want. At first glance it might seem you need to spend a whole bundle on tooling to make a guitar, but look again. Many of those tools can be quite easily made, especially for those of us who have a lathe and mill. The only thing I would say that might be a bit hard to make would be the nut slotting files, these have to be a pretty precise fit for the strings.

Tim

Brass_Machine:
Thats pretty damn cool!

I have always wanted to build a musical instrument. Cant play anything. (though I used to DJ at a night club).... I was thinking a violin would be nice to do. OFC... then the OCD  :proj: steps in... Make it carbon fiber. Make it electric...

Eric

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