using oak in a bass?

build a coffee table?

i'm not sure how oak would sound, but it would make for 1 heavy bass

 

Hey, good thinking! I always say, if there a disaster, make use of it (happens to me all the time)

Anyway, oak has a great renommé arond here as neck and fingerboard material. Some kind of mixture between mahogany and wenge, perhaps
As body wood, it's sayd to be slightly "clanky", or "tinny". I never come across an oak bodied instrument, myself, so I can't add anything more.

But, for neck use, it's great.

 

My favorite neck wood!
It’s hard to dry but I hope you get nice blanks from it.
It have a great sustain too!

/EA

Edin Electric Bass Guitars

 

Now that is a very interesting point.
I've always disliked oak for bass bodies, and I was convinced it would bring stability issues for necks. Do you have sound samples of your basses - the Lightwave ones in particular?

 

Me too
Oak is wery stabile once when it is dry.
Thank you for the compliments!
I have no sounclips of my basses but I have some recordings if it’s of any interest. I know that one of my customers had one clip of his LightWave on his web site: http://4bass.moonfruit.com
I’ll try to make some soundclips soon.

/EA

Edin Electric Bass Guitars

 

Well, this is not his bass on the audio clip. This is a clip from the Langcaster Lightwave bass you can listen to on the Langcaster site.

 

Ouch!
I have actually never asked him about that. I just presumed that’s him playing because clip is there…but it’s surely a lightwave
I’ll try to record something this weekend so you can compare

/EA

Edin Electric Bass Guitars

 

Yeah, that's an interesting question!
The swedish grown Quercus Robur is very stable. I guess the Florida oak(s?) would be faster grown and thus a bit softer, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Perhaps you can find something at http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/ - a rather comprehensive resource.
Otherwise, PM Pilotjones - he'll know where to find data.

 

…I hope you heard its frequency response from all of the flames

However, I put one sound clip of lightwave bass with oak/merbau neck here:
http://www.edit.hik.se/edin/lightwave/index.html
It is recorded directly into mic input of my laptop with standard soundcard so don’t expect the studio quality

/EA

Edin Electric Bass Guitars

 

Very clear and tight sound. Just as I expected.
The more samples I listen to, the more I think the Lightwave thingy is best applied to fretlesses instruments.
Just a personnal thought.