The Planning Really Starts

The idea is to build a wooden body to replace the black plastic body of my bass guitar.

After designing the body shape, we printed it out to compare it to the current body, making sure it looks good proportionally. We’ll need to make a few more changes before we really cut the wood, but it looks pretty good for a first draft. We’re hoping to go out and buy the wood today, but that may not really happen :P

comparing the cutout to the real thing

We’ve made a few simpler instruments in the past, so their here for you to check out. The first was a ukulele / guitar made from scrap oak and a cookie tin.  The frets are made of nails, and it sounds more like a banjo than a ukelele. (pictures here)

The drum we built is like a djembe without the curves (pictures here)

The Bass: