Audiovox Uke Bass (1/2)
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.
These two bodies are maple plywood over a hollow pine core, double-bound. They came out very lightweight, too light to balance even a guitar neck. The short uke bass was always planned. I shuffled parts and bodies between some other projects, and that left the second body free. I thought about it for a while and decided it would make a good mandolin.
Both of these short necks have fixed steel truss rods, although they probably don't need them. Both are finished in polyurethane, with masonite pickguards.
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