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Double Bass Wood stand
- Thread starter kinghq1
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What about Jake de Villier's stand design? Go to his website, click on the workshop link, and scroll down. I made one last week, and I'm pretty happy.
I have one of the Laabs stands. It was thrown in with a bass I bought last year. Nice from a distance, pretty cheesy up close. Certainly not something I'd pay $130 for.
I used several stands I found online as inspiration (amongst others Jake de Villier's stand) and made this simple stand:
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Completed stand, still unpainted (somehow this picture shows portrait on Windows and landscape on the iPad...)
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Unpainted in more detail
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 1
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 2
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 3 showing the hole for the endpin. I wanted a stand that could hold the bass with the endpin at the correct length for me
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 4
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Later I made another one for my daughters 1/16th bass and they look very nice side by side!
After the first version I had to make a new one that was bit higher as I had measured the endpin length wrong... I made it to the same design but higher and with the same "wings" at the bottom. But while fitting the bass inside my home I found out something I had not taken into account... The ceiling was too low to get the bass out! So, as I had this time calculated in bit of extra room at the bottom, I had opportunity to lower the whole stand. But in the process the wings had to go... Kind of a shame as I liked the look with wings better... I recycled the old stand to make the stand out for my daughters bass.
It is very easy to think up a design as it is in fact just a wooden box...
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Completed stand, still unpainted (somehow this picture shows portrait on Windows and landscape on the iPad...)
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Unpainted in more detail
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 1
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 2
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 3 showing the hole for the endpin. I wanted a stand that could hold the bass with the endpin at the correct length for me
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Painted/stained stand detail shot 4
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Later I made another one for my daughters 1/16th bass and they look very nice side by side!
After the first version I had to make a new one that was bit higher as I had measured the endpin length wrong... I made it to the same design but higher and with the same "wings" at the bottom. But while fitting the bass inside my home I found out something I had not taken into account... The ceiling was too low to get the bass out! So, as I had this time calculated in bit of extra room at the bottom, I had opportunity to lower the whole stand. But in the process the wings had to go... Kind of a shame as I liked the look with wings better... I recycled the old stand to make the stand out for my daughters bass.
It is very easy to think up a design as it is in fact just a wooden box...
I built one "bassed" upon Jake's design and it works very well. I'm gonna make another one soon, as the end pieces (the 2x10's) are a bit sloppy because I had to free-cut the beveled edges. I especially like that it takes up very little space in my music room as compared to a standard folding metal bass stand.
