New LonnyBass in the works: Short Scale Edition

Lonnybass · #1 08-12-2009, 10:53 PM

And of course, something to give you a sense of relative size.

ctmullins · #2 08-13-2009, 12:35 AM

Wow, you weren't kidding! Reminds me of those tiny samples that travelling salesmen used to carry with them decades ago.

Seriously - what is the scale length for this nugget?

jordan_frerichs · #3 08-13-2009, 12:38 AM

a palm sized body with opposite grain facing! that def. will be crazy

Lonnybass · #4 08-13-2009, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ctmullins

Wow, you weren't kidding! Reminds me of those tiny samples that travelling salesmen used to carry with them decades ago.

Seriously - what is the scale length for this nugget?

Scale length will be about 9 inches.

Lonnybass

ctmullins · #5 08-13-2009, 09:44 AM

One simple question - Why?!?

Kevin_BlueBASS · #6 08-13-2009, 09:49 AM

Everyone needs a GOOD travel guitar!
I made one with elastics for strings.... worked great for a week 'till the elastics stretched beyond logic :P
Good luck!
Looks like it'll be awesome so far!

Lonnybass · #7 08-13-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ctmullins

One simple question - Why?!?

Cause I'm gonna be a dad next month, and my wife commissioned me to build a babybass to match the one I am building now for myself:

ctmullins · #8 08-13-2009, 10:16 AM

Oh man - congratulations, and can I just say - you have the coolest wife ever!

(My firstborn starts college in a couple of weeks - enjoy them while they're around!)

Lonnybass · #9 08-13-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ctmullins

Oh man - congratulations, and can I just say - you have the coolest wife ever!

(My firstborn starts college in a couple of weeks - enjoy them while they're around!)

Coolest until she says "what do you need another bass for?"

bgartist · #10 08-13-2009, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lonnybass

Cause I'm gonna be a dad next month, and my wife commissioned me to build a babybass to match the one I am building now for myself:

Congrats Lonny!!!

Lonnybass · #11 08-13-2009, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bgartist

Congrats Lonny!!!

Thanks B!!!

Musiclogic · #12 08-13-2009, 06:59 PM

way cool Lonny, congrats.

vbasscustom · #13 08-13-2009, 09:49 PM

so guitar strings i assume, cut really short? and how many frets, cause after about 13 theyre gonna start hittin each other.

Lonnybass · #14 08-14-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by vbasscustom

so guitar strings i assume, cut really short? and how many frets, cause after about 13 theyre gonna start hittin each other.

All good questions - I have to do some experimenting with my fretfinder to figure out what is going to be manageable. Of course, I could just get the little guy started on fretless...would save me at least a couple nights of work!

Lonnybass

roberthabraken · #15 08-14-2009, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Lonnybass

Cause I'm gonna be a dad next month, and my wife commissioned me to build a babybass to match the one I am building now for myself.

That's funny, I'm in the exact same situation: built a bass past few months and becoming a dad in the next month.. my wife (I didn't bring her on that idea, she came up with it herself) said: "maybe you could build a baby sized bass for our child next year".

So this thread is very funny and useful.. keep us posted

renniw · #16 08-14-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by roberthabraken

That's funny, I'm in the exact same situation: built a bass past few months and becoming a dad in the next month.. my wife (I didn't bring her on that idea, she came up with it herself) said: "maybe you could build a baby sized bass for our child next year".

So this thread is very funny and useful.. keep us posted

Here is my baby bass for my 4 year old daughter... (another wife idea... maybe they know each other.....)

Sorry for the derail, now back on track....

Lonnybass · #17 08-14-2009, 11:34 AM

[quote=renniw;7819321]Here is my baby bass for my 4 year old daughter... (another wife idea... maybe they know each other.....)

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That's really cool, do you have a pickup in there? Is that thing fully playable?

My wife was intending for this to be a "toy" but it's taking on a life of its own in terms of realism (tt's also kind of wild to see my traditionally used body shape scaled down to a 1/4 size miniature).

OHSPyro89 · #18 08-14-2009, 11:40 AM

This build is pretty wild.

Are you going to use a truss rod? I assume the tension won't be very great. Also, are you going to go with a lighter gauge string set?

Lonnybass · #19 08-14-2009, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by OHSPyro89

This build is pretty wild.

Are you going to use a truss rod? I assume the tension won't be very great. Also, are you going to go with a lighter gauge string set?

Nope, no truss rod planned. And probably guitar strings.

renniw · #20 08-14-2009, 01:49 PM

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That's really cool, do you have a pickup in there? Is that thing fully playable?

My wife was intending for this to be a "toy" but it's taking on a life of its own in terms of realism (tt's also kind of wild to see my traditionally used body shape scaled down to a 1/4 size miniature).

This is a 21 inches scale 4 string "piccolo" bass (a polite way to say stringed with guitar strings...)

The pickup is home wound p-type under maple cover, wired direct to the ouptut jack.

100% fully playable. (I even played with it once at rehearsal with my band with an octaver pedal...

)

Body and neck is 1 piece mahogany. Neck is topped with maple with walnut binding.

There's no truss rod in mine, but the neck seems to shift a bit with humidity changes and string gauge, so if one day I build another for my newborn baby, it will have some kind of trussrod. Also, even if string tension is not as high as a real bass or guitar, it affects the instrument. (take note the this one is a 1 piece mahogany neck/body and thickness is like 1 inch, maybe 1.25 max.... I'll measure tonight...)