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.


The two Kubicki bodies finally have all the bursted edges done. This is a dark brown, not a black, that looks very nice with the yellow of the pine, as you can see here on the Strato-vox: