Dead Crow Road -Tea Chest Bass

[rumblefish]

After working on a video shoot for the band Dead Crow Road ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdTRwFDmyY )  I decided to build a tea chest bass from those useful bits and pieces that you find down the shed. 

The tea chest bass comprises:

 1960 pre CBS Brooke Bond tea chest,
 2004 broomstick,
Headstock sawn off of my 1958 Fender P Bass (NOOOOOOOOOO!!) :0)

Construction Notes

Using my P bass to obtain a template the headstock was cut out of a piece of wood with a jigsaw.
 
A single schaller tuning key was fitted to the headstock .




The headstock was then attached to the broomstick utilising a hanging rail from a wardrobe with some screws normally used to mount a mirror. 

 

 

Structural wooden support bars were added to the bottom of the tea chest

 

A length of nylon strimmer wire was utilised as a string. 

 

 

Sounds great, just need to work on some form of transducer to amplify the bass.

 

 

[SpondonBassed]

I love this.

[Pea Turgh]

Grab an old speaker and wire it up to an XLR?  Piezo maybe?  Or both!

[Pea Turgh]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.soundonsound.com/techniques/studio-sos-amplifying-recording-tea-chest-bass%3famp