lucky Breakthrough to sidestep rules...

As some of you know, my parents are very anti-me-building-a-bass. This has made me quite angry because they aren't letting me do something I'm passionate about, and because it'd be a great learning experience.

I have found a way to bypass their rules, thanks to my highschool TAG classes/seminars.

In my school, we have something called a directed study. In this class, we can pick any subject, including hobies, to study and learn about. In these classes however, you have to do projects. I will do a directed study in my junior year (now I'm a freshman...) so I have plenty of time to plan. This will qualitfy for a D.S. because of the following reasons:

Designing the bass-art
Getting string spacing, locating frets for a scale-math
Technology of the pickups-science
reading about how to build, learning about the parts, etc.-lit

Therefore, building a bass is educational, and the best part about it is, I get to keep it.

I have to spend my own money on it, and by the time I'm a junior, my parents will probably have lightened up a bit, and will see the light noticing that building a bass isn't a totally stupid idea or a waste of time.

I can probably get the wood I need from Gallary Hardwoods (great selection, and I've heard alot of great things), I can purchase the other parts easily off the internet, and designing the bass will be a fun task for me because I love to draw basses (it's how I spend my day during my lunch, and math class).

Specs:
6 strings
34 inch scale
Fretted
singlecut
2 trussrods
Bartolini soapbars
Aguilar OBP-3
Gotoh sealed tuners
Hipshot A style bridge
Gotoh straplocks
Mahagony body 1 1/2" thick
Birds eye maple front
5 piece neck Maple/mahagony/purpleheart/mahogony/maple
24 frets
Birds eye maple fretboard
Birds eye maple knobs

Think I want enough birdseye maple?

that's about it, I've been drawing up some stuff and I found a design I really liked. If I figure out how to use the scanner we have I'll get it up so you guy's can point out the flaws it has if any.

Hambone, What was the formula you said to use to correctly place everything on a scaled down drawing? I think it started wit like a 6 inch line, then some other stuff...

Thanks,

Greg

 

lol, my school fund a project like this...ha.

I'll be paying for all of this myself, and I will also be purchasing the toos as well. I have a dremel, but I might buy a smll router or a thing to use the dremel as a router. I don't care about sanding, I can do that whenever.

I will purchase most of the tools frommy local home dept, which is only 2 miles away.Also, hambone is only 30-45 minutes away so if I run into trouble, I might be able to ask him for assistance.

Greg

 

nah, I like 34" scale, and I'm going to do it string through for extra tension. I have a 34" 6er right now and it's fine, I don't understand the floppiness thing....

Greg