wbo

  1. Gary_M

    Winter Build Off 2026 - Daddy Needs a New Fretless

    I built a 5 string fretless of my own design for the WBO 2022. Now it's time to build a 4 string version of it. That original build thread can be found here if you're interested. Sidenote; I recently discovered a problem with that bass that will need to be fixed, so I'll make thread detailing...
  2. 2groggy

    Winter Build Off - Best Bass for Surf Music

    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...
  3. 13ghosts

    Winter Build Off 2024 - Best Bass For Sound Experiments

    Hello everyone, this will be a Scratch Build including some of the pickups. It will include: Multiple separately movable multi-coil pickups and options for more conventional pickups A new D-extension (new compared to my first build) Probably fanned frets (I've never built a neck before, so...
  4. Beej

    Summer Build Off 2023 - Affable Anarchists' Unfinished Business: Lame Excuses

    SURPRISE! It's a build-off! Huge thank you to @Flamingo21 for keeping this ball rolling in my unacceptable absence. :D For this year’s Summer Build Off, our theme is cobbled together, but comes down to No Rules Baby!!!! I mean a bunch of folks enacted anarchist principles and started already...
  5. Hout

    WBO 23 - Drop it like it's hot

    This build thread is for my WBO entry.. haven't really built a bass in about 6 years and very excited to start one up again:hyper:! Here's the rundown of the plan: - 5 string, single cut. - Set asymmetric neck - Multiscale - Built-in Capo for semitone droptuning - Led markers that respond to...
  6. TFM94

    Winter Build Off 2023 - Supersymmetry

    Welcome to my WBO23 build thread! Gonna get hella nerdy over here. This is going into the non-bass category. Supersymmetry is an essential concept in many physical and mathematical theories, including quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, string theory (a concept all guitarists and bassists...