My latest DIY bass

blablas · **Posted:** November 17th, 2012, 6:07 am

I realized the big overall picture was missing.

Sound clips is not going to happen for the time being, I don´t have the means or the time to make some at the moment.

Matt R. · **Posted:** November 17th, 2012, 10:50 am

^that's lovely, but I get a little dizzy looking at it.

fivebass52 · **Posted:** November 17th, 2012, 2:09 pm

blablas wrote:

I realized the big overall picture was missing.

Sound clips is not going to happen for the time being, I don´t have the means or the time to make some at the moment.

Yep, that's the Money shot!

blablas · **Posted:** May 31st, 2013, 5:25 pm

Teaser!

More details will follow.

Jeroen · **Posted:** June 1st, 2013, 2:58 am

Stainless steel? Awesome

blablas · **Posted:** June 1st, 2013, 3:33 am

The endresult:

blablas · **Posted:** June 1st, 2013, 3:34 am

Jeroen wrote:

Stainless steel?

Yes.

blablas · **Posted:** June 1st, 2013, 4:23 am

The big total photo.

AzWhoFan · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 10:57 am **Posts:** 2865

that is an extremely cool looking bass IMHO

Smo · **Posted:** June 1st, 2013, 1:34 pm

Insane!

In a good way. Is it heavy?

I like your other basses as well. The fanned fretted is waycool.

blablas · **Posted:** June 1st, 2013, 2:36 pm

Smo wrote:

Is it heavy?

4 kilogram.

blablas · **Posted:** June 6th, 2013, 11:17 am

Two extra pictures of the inlays and fingerboard.

fivebass52 · **Posted:** June 7th, 2013, 6:26 am

Beautiful! I'm guessing you etched the fret markers into the stainless?

blablas · **Posted:** June 7th, 2013, 6:49 am

No etching, I very lightly scratched them in with a scriber and a angle ruler, afterwards sanded the fingerboard down with Scotch-brite.

sblueplanet · **Posted:** July 11th, 2013, 6:16 am

These are things of beauty.
I hate to imagine how much one would cost to order though.

fivebass52 · **Posted:** July 12th, 2013, 4:40 am

Why pay thousands for a custom bass, when you can just buil your own? Well, at least THIS guy can!

blablas · **Posted:** July 12th, 2013, 6:26 am

fivebass52 wrote:

Why pay thousands for a custom bass, when you can just build your own?

That's one of the two main reasons I started building.

The other is: lack of any left handed choice when you are looking for something new, the solution for me was "I'll make them the way I want myself".

blablas · **Posted:** July 12th, 2013, 6:38 am

sblueplanet wrote:

These are things of beauty.

Thanks.

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I hate to imagine how much one would cost to order though.

I hate to disappoint you, I don't build for money, I've got a job I like to pay the bills and finance my hobby's.

It to took somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 hours to build and in parts and materials I spent around 550 Euro's.

sblueplanet · **Posted:** July 13th, 2013, 5:14 am

Fantastic building skills.

I've been to the website and am amazed at the line up of basses.

Hope you find time to give them some play-time. :ugeek:

blablas · **Posted:** July 26th, 2013, 2:37 am

A week ago I finally decided to make a shim, I just could not get the string low enough to my liking.
I took a white plastic plate with a thickness of two millimeters and cut it exactly in the shape of the neck-pocket, now the strings can go as low as I want them.

And this is how the fingerboard looks after two months of almost daily playing for a least an hour.

The scratches you see are not real scratches, but where the string touches the fingerboard the stainless steel becomes extra shiny, you can see them but can not feel them.

It's a successful project, the bass almost plays itself and the the sound is exactly as I expected.
Now I need to leave it in the rack more and continue with the next build.

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