looking to starting building my own bass

[0175westwood29]

hope this in the right place?

im looking into starting building a bass, i wanna get my head round the electric first tho.

how did you guys get started, were there courses, books etc or did you just do it on the fly?

im thinking of getting a cheap bass and just doing lots of work on it to start ie changing the electrics working out how it all works?

does this sound like a good place to start? i also wanna get into looking at amps as ideally i want to become a band tech

any advice ?

andy
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[bubinga5]

I believe John Shuker does a bass course on building basses...you could go there, or do the internet thing, and find al the information there...Warmouth..?

the experience i have had with basses that are already built is a confusing road, whether it be pups, pe amps, body woods......research is everything...knowledge in this is much harder to come by...if you enjoy it, go for it....i would love to be employed by a luthier for some training program...

Edited October 12, 2010 by bubinga5

[Dom in Dorset]

Check out the Build Diaries forum (scroll down on the menu)
Get a copy of this book: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-Your-Own-Electric-Guitar/dp/0953104907/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286901574&sr=8-3"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-Your-Own-Elec...1574&sr=8-3[/url]

[gelfin]

If it's any help I did my first on the fly so to speak. I started off with the idea of building my own (copy) Mouradian but as you can see from this pic I got a bit carried away. I suggest you get an off the shelf neck or s/h and experiment from there.

[Dom in Dorset]

Building basses is like taking crack!
I made an acoustic fretless, i thought I could handle it but before i knew it i'd started on twin neck.
now I'm into the hard stuff, I've got a five string in the pipeline and a headless acoustic twin neck ,a thru neck active jazz etc ect