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Saga Bass Kits
- Thread starter pica
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I actually built the P bass kit alongside my buddy who made the Tele guitar kit. We did it as a summer project our last summer before going to college.
I want to say I was able to pick up the P bass for around $125.
Overall, it was fun! I ended up using the bass in one of my college bands as a main player for about a year when doing fraternity parties.
The bass actually has a really nice tone to it, and it ended up weighing less that 9lbs total. The neck isn't super stable but that's not unexpected.
If you're looking for a project to do then it's pretty fun. Hope that helps!
I want to say I was able to pick up the P bass for around $125.
Overall, it was fun! I ended up using the bass in one of my college bands as a main player for about a year when doing fraternity parties.
The bass actually has a really nice tone to it, and it ended up weighing less that 9lbs total. The neck isn't super stable but that's not unexpected.
If you're looking for a project to do then it's pretty fun. Hope that helps!
Do not spend $250 on this. There are lots of kits out there, check out Guitar Fetish.
Guitar fetish has a JB bass for $105 with a maple board five bucks extra for rosewood. They use Pauwlonia for the bodies, kind of a lightweight ash wood i believe.
Personally I was never much impressed with the Saga bass kits. However, in their defense, I must say that I have built a Saga Les Paul guitar kit and recently playing it I was amazed at how good it turned out. I mean compared to my REAL Gibson LP (costing a couple grand) it compares VERY well in terms of tone and sustain etc. The kit was flamed maple and given my finishing skills turned out sort of so-so and certainly not amazing like my nitro Gibson, But as an instrument to PLAY it's great. Note a kit seems all about how good are your wood finishing skills. If you are able to get a passable finish onto wood there are a lot of very interesting kits out there.
