Doing Things Wrong

Audiovox (2/2)

Audiovox 736 Replica Bass
Audiovox Gibson-style Bass
Audiovox Gibson-style Guitar
Audiovox Strat-style Guitar
Audiovox 12-string Guitar
Audiovox Danelectro-style Bass
Audiovox Fretless Bass
Audiovox Ukulele Bass
Audiovox Mandolin
Audiovox Electric Upright Bass
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This bass is a 21" scale, with a piezo saddle mounted in an adjustable bridge. The soundhole is just for looks. The strings are metal-wound Kalas. The fretboard is cut out of the ugliest piece of wood I ever received. For such a small neck, I managed to cut around most of the ugly, and the result isn't half bad.


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It really helps to make full-sized drawings before you start a guitar project. But finding guitar-size paper can be a problem. My Home Depot has big rolls of brown wrapping paper outside that are a good size, I tore off a few yards. Below, I've drawn a plan on a nice big piece of cardboard I saved that was the backing for something. But how do you transfer these plans to wood? I don't want to cut up my master, I need some extra-large tracing paper. So I went to Staples, but the closest thing they had was still too small, and $20. So I went to the supermarket next door, and found this baking paper.