hey guys! I am wanting to start getting into the art of bass guitar building... but before i sart asking a bunch of dumb questions, i would like to get a good book. What do you guys consider the best bass guitar building book out there? I noticed the FAQ Sticky has a couple listed, but i'm wondering what you guys who are out there doing it would recommend. Thanks a ton!:bassist: -Cody K.

I like build your own guitar by Martin Koch.
I find the way he does things suits me.
alan

Books:

Building Electric Guitars: How to Make Solid-Body, Hollow-Body and Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
by Martin Koch
Martin Koch's website
http://www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/index.htm

Make Your Own Electric Guitar
by Melvyn Hiscock

To a lesser extent (though I found it useful):

Make Your Own Electric Guitar & Bass
by Dennis Waring, David Raymond

I like Hiscock's book.

The only book i have is hiscocks and it covers quite alot of vital information. Good book, for everything else, come on the forum or ask people over at MIMF.

I like Hiscock's book.

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Buy the Cumpiano book. I don't remember if it has the term "bass guitar" anywhere in it but it's absolutely the most essential book you should have. I also have the Hiscock book which is very good.

I like build your own guitar by Martin Koch.
I find the way he does things suits me.
alan

+1

Hiscock's is OK, but I like this better. If you're going for profisiency in one shot, read them all, and build exatcly according to them in parallel.
If you're OK with a longer learning corve, use them as night litterature, and build after your own head.

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Hiscock's is OK, but I like this better. If you're going for profisiency in one shot, read them all, and build exatcly according to them in parallel.
If you're OK with a longer learning corve, use them as night litterature, and build after your own head.

i'm just looking for something to kind of start me off with... to kind of give me an idea of what building a guitar takes. I plan in the future to go to the Galloup guitar building school before i actually attempt to make one. But who knows......:hmm:

P.S. Skelf, this is awesome!
http://www.acguitars.co.uk/gfxs/gallery/img_1593.jpg

Thanks very much.
I have all the books mentioned and found bits in all of them that I now use. The Martin Koch is the one I go back to most often.

a read of the three Basschair references will provide you with a solid and balanced approach while also giving you a set of perspectives for ways to accomplish the same task in subtly different ways. having a larger picture of how to do things will increase you ability to work outside of the box, and better prepare you for figuring out how to do something beyond the basics steps they each outline

all the best,

R

a read of the three Basschair references will provide you with a solid and balanced approach while also giving you a set of perspectives for ways to accomplish the same task in subtly different ways. having a larger picture of how to do things will increase you ability to work outside of the box, and better prepare you for figuring out how to do something beyond the basics steps they each outline

all the best,

R

+1................well said Rodent

koch's book is really good, it comes with a lot of information, and a great table for fret calculations, plus a lot of background information and complex things such as making your own pickups, I made my first bass using it, and there were very few problems