winter build off

On December 21, 2023 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is "Best Bass For..." Winter Build Off 2024 - Best Bass For... This vote will be for Non-Bass Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 3 votes to select your...

On December 21, 2023 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is "Best Bass For..." Winter Build Off 2024 - Best Bass For... This vote will be for Assembly Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 3 votes to select your...

On December 21, 2023 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is "Best Bass For..." Winter Build Off 2024 - Best Bass For... This vote will be for Partial Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 3 votes to select your...

On December 21, 2023 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is "Best Bass For..." Winter Build Off 2024 - Best Bass For... This vote will be for Scratch Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 3 votes to select your...

Greetings! For this year’s winter build off, our theme is “Best Bass For…” What does this mean and how does it apply to the build off? Well, TalkBass has a very long tradition of people showing up out of the blue and asking “What is the best bass for <insert topic/genre/interest>? The good...

Hi everyone, sounds like it's time to talk some winter build off! Event: Winter Build Off 2024 Dates: 1600h PST (UTC -8) Thursday, December 21, 2023 to 1600h PST (UTC -8) Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Theme: Best Bass For... For a change, we had a short discussion about what the theme would be -...

This will be my second ever attempt at a scratch build. I am very green but I can't get this idea out of my head. I love Rickenbacker aesthetics but a few things make them less than ideal for me. So I've been thinking about a Ric with a P pickup and different neck for a while. One of my...

The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers published in 1895, lying somewhere between Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft in the weird tales continuum. The first several stories refer to a play, also titled The King in Yellow. The first act is described as banal...

"Certandan" means: from the province of Certando. More on this and other provinces later. In the novel Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, a bass instrument is mentioned with the name Certandan Deep Strings. Since I'm both a Tigana nerd and a bassist I want to build it. The book doesn't give an actual...

Greetings everyone! For this year’s winter build off, our theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly. Inspired by Sci-Fi, Fantasy, high-tech and various areas of nerd-dom. Tell us how the theme applies to your build. There’s no right or wrong but please tell us how your build fits the theme or the theme...

Hi all, it's long overdue that we talk some winter build off! Event: Winter Build Off 2023 Dates: 1600h PST (UTC -8) Wednesday, December 21, 2022 to 1600h PST (UTC -8) Monday, March 20, 2023 Theme: Let Your Nerd Flag Fly A few ide'ers were floated about recently and the winner was Let Your...

project plan

Wood Pile for Toby-or-not-Toby build

Hi Gang, it's well into the Summer of 2021 and this is usually the time of year where we get together and plan for the upcoming Winter Build Off. If you have followed the build offs since the inaugural edition in 2017, you'll notice that I'm not @Scoops :D I'm going to go into some history and...

mock it

body cleaned up

body tearout make anger yes

in progress

ready to cut

out of the clamps

making a template

making a template...

more template building

build a template

making a routing template with bondo

layers

Clamp Farm

"chamber"... just sounds so cool, don't it?

ready for glue up

Thanks to all involved with this and allowing us beginners to sit in with some very seasoned veteran builders. My build with be a slightly upscaled Danelectro longhorn body. The upscale is to accommodate a 34” scale jazz neck. The stock Squier Headstock will be glued, reshaped and Modified to...

gluing maple accent to body core

mmmm...walnut...

maple stripe

body core topside

glued top with denatured alcohol

body template

Hi folks, I'm joining the fray: Winter build Off 2019 – Mash Up My mashup will be made up of these design elements: · Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird (upper "horn") · Ovation Magnum III (upper and lower bouts) · Atlansia Stealth (head stock, tail point, beveled lower horn, pickup "finger-wells")...

Not too long ago this older, handsome, virile gentleman: had a romantic encounter with this slender, elegant, younger lady: This winter we will meet their love child. :cool: Woods will be maple, figured cherry, and ebony: (Upright fingerboard courtesy of Gollihur Music - Upright...

On December 21st 2017, a build off challenge was issued here in Luthiers Corner. The theme was “Walnut Free for All”. The entrants were asked to build any style bass as long as the body is at least 65% walnut, and the neck is at least 65% walnut. Please review each of the builders pages...