I have a thought that there are lots of people who would like to do the same thing and you can see that marketing anything - especially such a special item as a bass guitar - is rife with all sorts of rabbit holes and false starts.
The learning curve isn't totally linear - as you learn more you'll find there's much more to learn.
How far are you gonna go into this action? Growing your own trees for the wood or just buying slabs and machining them yourself? Some purists would have you culling seed for the correct wood to plant your trees too.
That's silly and really counter to what you may want - but there are some who would force you through their own desires and ideals to do so.
Me? I'd buy some wood - I found some as cutoffs at a construction site - and go from there. It's not brain surgery - but it requires techniques that you will learn along the way --- fortunately or unfortunately.
So as I see it - unless you want to be the owner of a bass building facility where you hire people to do the artisan-quality work for you on your dime, then you have a lot of competition and only [DEL]one lifetime[/DEL] what's left of a lifetime to get it done.
I'd stick with it as a hobby and after a while you can build a bass or so for a friend.
After all - humans build them and so can you.
The learning curve isn't totally linear - as you learn more you'll find there's much more to learn.
How far are you gonna go into this action? Growing your own trees for the wood or just buying slabs and machining them yourself? Some purists would have you culling seed for the correct wood to plant your trees too.
That's silly and really counter to what you may want - but there are some who would force you through their own desires and ideals to do so.
Me? I'd buy some wood - I found some as cutoffs at a construction site - and go from there. It's not brain surgery - but it requires techniques that you will learn along the way --- fortunately or unfortunately.
So as I see it - unless you want to be the owner of a bass building facility where you hire people to do the artisan-quality work for you on your dime, then you have a lot of competition and only [DEL]one lifetime[/DEL] what's left of a lifetime to get it done.
I'd stick with it as a hobby and after a while you can build a bass or so for a friend.
After all - humans build them and so can you.
