Active Electronics
Active electronics can add a lot of fun to a project, as well as save you a lot of soldering. Options range from simple buffers and pre-amps to tone controls to on-board effects.
One of the fun things about building electric guitars is wiring them up. Factory wiring tends to be simple, minimizing the amount of fussy handwork required. Many manufacturers keep strictly to 'classic' designs, seldom if ever changing anything. These designs are generally simplistic, often crude or even stupid, and sometimes outright flawed. There is no need for you to do this. I don't. Here are some of the things I have done over the years. I don't claim to have invented any of this, although some of these schematics I have never seen anywhere else, and had to derive them myself.
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Rather than design an acoustic bass according to luthiery principles, which are basically 500 years of "we do it this way because we've always done it this way" together with 50 years of "there is no other way", I would like to design an acoustic bass like a loudspeaker. Plenty of bookshelf speakers and subwoofers are about the same volume as a guitar.
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