Doing Things Wrong

Uke-Scale Bass

Basses built with a uke scale length of 21 inches.


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.


Brazed double-acting truss rod

Brazing is essentially the same process as soldering. Two metal pieces are joined using a third metal with a melting point well below either of them. Brazing is useful for joining metals that cannot be welded, as well as dissimilar metals.