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Greetings and Happy New Year! As you may know this year’s winter build off has seen a handful of changes, the biggest being that it will run from January 1 to April 30, giving everyone four months to complete. This year also sees the addition of a special “Unfinished Business” category – more...

Greetings! For this year’s winter build off, our theme is “Gemini: Twins & Pairs”. The theme serves as a guide and parameter for the build-off. So for this WBO, give us two of something. Two basses, two instruments, two knobs, two pickups, two necks one body, two bodies one neck; something...

Hello TalkBass! Ready for a Summer Build Off? If not, here's your chance to get ready. :D This build off, like all others, is open to all comers and building experience is optional. Let's talk build off! Event: Summer Build Off 2024 Dates: 2015h UTC Thursday, June 20, 2024 to 1244h UTC...

This build belongs in the Partial Build category because I will be re-using the neck. In fact, I will be constructing this instrument almost entirely from parts and wood on hand. - shape inspired by Mosrite Ventures because surf, duh. I made the templates a while back, with a few approximate...

A while back, I was trying out different P-bass pickups and had installed a Lollar Precision 90. I was playing off some frustration from a long day at work...loudly...when my wife came home. She asked something like, "What's going on in here? I feel like I just drove up to a someone dueling the...

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 -...

"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...

Hey everyone! In case you don't know, we just wrapped up our Summer Build Off event over in Luthier's Corner. The theme this summer was Super Magic Happy Fun Time Free For All. There are a lot of talented folks that have created some amazing instruments, so please stop by and check it out...

With this build, I'm trying to achieve two goals. The first goal is, obviously, to build a playable instrument. A bit of a challenge, since this will be the first acoustic instrument I build. The second goal is to find out whether a four string mandola is something I will enjoy playing. I've...

Hello fellow Swarf Rats! :woot: It's now been over two weeks since we wrapped up the 2022 Winter Build Off, and so I thought it might be time to start talking about doing it again. :D Winter Build Off 2022 - Renewal/Rebirth I'm still not Scoops, but I'll do my best to keep this on the path...

Hello all, and welcome to my thread! :) My plan is to build an Explorer bass. This shape belongs to the Gibson world, which is new territory for me. So far in my bass life, I've played mainly Fender Shaped Objects, or FSOs. This will be a GSO. The body I'll build from scratch, the neck is a...

Yeah, it's probably not the best thread title. I mean, I already have a P... but I could use another P... so maybe it should be "I Need Another P", or perhaps " I Need to P Again"? :rolleyes: :whistle: At any rate, I have a bunch of Jazz basses, and a mid-90's American Standard Precision that...

I recently picked up a nice short-scale neck from fellow TB'er @hbarcat and given that my workplace might voluntarily close in the coming couple of weeks, I figured... Why not participate? The launching point, as seen below: So blank pictured is freshly glued cherry. I got these P pickups...

repainted!