Homemade Body, Aliexpress Neck

[Papa Carlo]

Hello friends! This is my first post on this forum, the first building of bass guitar and the first bass I will have!

OK, let's go:

mahogany board

glued

routing

saw walnut top. it is hard worck. 2 days and 8 hours total

I do it. Yeaa!

top glued

glued with mahogany bottom

here is chines neck. good quality

 

[sing-modulator]

Looks good!

 

[Papa Carlo]

thanks !

body form

13mm radius

walnut cap

neck including

earth channel

BINGO !

 

[Papa Carlo]

Finish with shoe polish, coffee, soy sauce, apple vinegar and teak oil

assembling

 

[Papa Carlo]

OK, here is final pics

All parts from Aliexpress. The pickup an Artec ebc4.

 

[Hout]

Wow! That looks really good, nice balanced shape! Deep respect for the hand resawing of the top!
How does it play?
Did you use a hammer drill for the earth channel?

 

[Papa Carlo]

thank you!
the form based on strat template with som changes.
yes, it what i have from long drills. it worck perfect.
the neck is made perfectly. no further development was required. frets do not ring.
I would describe the sound as predominantly mid-frequency

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Good work. The finish looks good and sounds like it’s tasty.

 

[Papa Carlo]

thnx.
The smell of the mixture was pleasant, like coffee, but I did not dare to try it

 

[FenderB]

Well done, it's beautiful. I admire your ability to cut that piece of wood in half with a hand saw.

 

[jamro217]

Welcome to TB, and thanks for sharing pictures of your remarkable creation. What an interesting design. Beautiful work.

 

[Engle]

Looks pretty nice! The slots in the nut look like they could be filed deeper to make it more comfortable to play.

There are not many people that could cut that board that accurately with a handsaw!

 

[Laurent]

Beautiful work. Congratulations!
Mahogany is a nice wood to work with.

 

[Wfrance3]

Great Job!! It looks perfect. Your refin mixture makes me want to go to a coffee house!

 

[Mr.Ace]

Nice work, looks like it will really thump with the Pup placement

 

[roller]

Great Job!! It looks perfect. Your refin mixture makes me want to go to a coffee house!

What are the proportions used in the concoction for the body finish? Sounds interesting!

 

[Five String]

Wow very nice wood and the finish really enhances it. You are a real pro. No volume or tone controls or did i miss them?

 

[Five String]

What is the sound like?

 

[JimmyM]

I like it! Will be good for big fat Fender Tele bass tones.

 

[Papa Carlo]

thank you all for your kind words!

that would cut the board you need to constantly turn it and saw from four corners. it is also necessary to motivate yourself with the beauty of a sawn wood and have a lot of patience.

coating: first I painted black polishing for shoes. then rubbed the emery leaving the paint only in the pores. Next I mixed 3 teaspoons of dry instant coffee, one spoonful of soy sauce and 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar and covered in 3 layers with intermediate polishing. in the final one layer of teak oil.

There are no volume controls and timbres. maybe later I'll add a varitone.

sound similar to jazz bass, but more vintage and with a highlighted middle.