video says first and only bass this guy built. watch the whole thing and you will be surprised. i call this guy THE CHISEL KING.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0wcbJm5Jghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0wcbJm5Jg
Not my cup of tea but very nice workmanship...
Curious why he chose to build one but can't play...?
That last bit is just amazing.
"I would record some sound sample but I can't play bass yet"
... :o :o :o
leo fender couldn't play bass either.
He sure knows how to handle a chisel. He has tons of patience. Not keen on the style of it, to say the least, but that's quality woodworking.
Agreed. He has an artistic eye and serious woodworking skills.
He's spent a lot of time learning how to carve - not an easy task. He does some beautiful work for sure. But egads I'm surprised he has all of his fingers the way he worked around the power tools! :o
Impressive.
I would have used the router (and other machines) more, if I had them lying around.
But even you enjoyed working with that tiny little surface shaper thing-a-me-bob whilst you were building your Broek-Special...
True! But that was also because I couldn't do that with the router :mrgreen:
Damned techno-geeks... ( :mrgreen: )
lovely work , speaking as someone who cant afford a router and has to use a chisel, I would definitely have used the router more.
I like the shape too, bastard child of a J bass and a cello
Impressive and my hunch is that sustain won't be an issue with this baby!
I like the look, sort of EB-1 meets Warwick Vampyre meets Epiphone Scroll Bass.
That is beautiful! I'd rock that! I fear for that guys fingers among other things. No anti kick back on the table saw or cover on the joiner and not a push stick in sight.
I don't have an anti-kickback on my 1954 Shopsmith, but at least I have LOTS of push sticks.
His "finger danger" cuts were a mostly mixture of camera angles and editing, though he took far too many risks for my taste. I'm just wondering what the neck profile is like. From the video, that neck profile is HUGE, twice that of the biggest RD I've ever seen. Look at the "body joint" cutaway: the neck there is like a Fender bass body, With the graphite bars and trussrod, why? There were several construction decisions he made that I think not having a player's immediate input hurt but it is pretty; not my cup of tea, but pretty.