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^ Daisy Rock huh... 🤔

It's all the dusty end round here..

Black Rickenbacker?

Really they'd need to all have just got the sack... 😁

Indeed, Poked fourfold..

I take your point of course, as I say at this stage it's a try out, I'll treat it to a proper set if I like the experiment

Plus the bass I'm doing this with is headless ( not double end strings) so I've got a bit of leeway with string lengths.. a regular guitar string would likely do for C

I'm not bothered about brands at all, as long as they're round wound they'll do for me 😁

Easy guys, I really appreciate everyone's input, advice and opinions on this, particularly as it's not something I've considered before! Shunting my existing strings over a notch gives me as they stand.. A 80 D 60 G 45 I found a potential C at 30 but it wasn't long enough.. I've got another bag of random regular Git strings that I'm hunting for amongst my junk, I'd think I'll be bound to have something 30 to 35 in with that lot. My intention is to give it a try with what I've got available already, as proof of concept and if I think it's going to be a useful / desirable thing, I'll look at getting a 'proper' set as mentioned above.

Sorry!

To be doubly clear I am indeed tuning Up here rather than down ( so called tenor bass tuning it seems) .. I'll have a hunt thru my bag of assorted old strings and show them to the digital caliper in a bit, you guys have given me food for thought & some useful and interesting info, much appreciated

You should be well able to do it yourself if you can bolt the rest together DIY! I've done this by measurements, the basic working length of string you can take right from the fb edge of nut to where the strings break over the saddles, or you can halve it and measure from crown of fret 12. As long as you've got some adjustment movement room for intonation on the saddles you're good (you're more likely to need to shift the saddles back rather than forward btw) There's likely YouTube vid demonstrations of all this I'd think just for clarity. ps, you'll need to ensure the bridge lines up with the neck, as mentioned by Paul above.

Cheers gents, all good stuff. It's something I fancied experimenting with on the Headless thing I "made" as I think it'd work and sound well with it. Interesting that it's termed tenor bass.. I've in fact got a tenor guitar, well OK it's a regular acoustic guitar that I cut the neck down width wise and strung up with 4 strings. It works very well, surprisingly ( bearing in mind I'm a Neanderthal guitarist) . Technically it's possibly a plectrum guitar rather than tenor as it's got a longer guitar length scale whatever. I'll have a dig about thru my selection of used strings and see if there's owt that'd do for the high C. Thanks for the gauge guidance, that'll be handy 👍

Rainy days & Mondays, Carpenters

As above, has anyone tried this and what gauge strings did you use? The obvious method I guess would be to dump the E string, and shunt the A D and G up a notch, then find a skinny string from somewhere to be the C. Or would I need an extra light set to start with? I'm presuming if using the existing AD+G the tensions required would be the same as when they were in the conventional 'slots'. No doubt the pull on the neck would be somewhat different and need trus rod tweaks, no big deal really I'd think.. Any Intel most welcome guys....

666 the number of the beast.. I. M.

Take five, D Brubeck

Should gone to Halfords, £7.99 a tin.. 😅 Seriously I'm sure that's going to look brilliant, frustrating not being able to crack on as it's too cold....plus the trouble with Eire, it's always bloody raining..!

Equal shares in everything I've been involved with pretty much, even when I've been filling in as a hired gun on numerous occasions I've been cut in equally as if a band member . Can't think of any decent excuse to do otherwise, unless it's a job you're doing for an agreed fee of X amount or something .

But have you got the corks hanging off the brim? 😁 As you're a guitarist of many years standing I can see how a short scale bass would work well for you certainly.

Always good to get a bargain! 👍 I had one of the Hof. club basses for a bit, it was a cool little thing but I didn't really get on with the short scale etc.

No, not exactly wot I'd call classic punk.. 😁

Jake the Peg, RH