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a cardboard box upright bass

Posted Sep 6 2006 - 11:37am by washtub_bass
Filed under bass | blues | box | cardboard | country | funny | guitar | hillbilly | jazz | music | musician | rock | weird

I seek brutal criticism for my homemade bass.

I made a cardboard box upright bass using scrap oak flooring as the neck, and i made a pickup by breaking away the plastic casing of a Radio Shack Science Project Buzzer, and strings are weed whacker twine and the tuners are faucet-spiggots.

The cardboard bass plays great and sounds wonderful.

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from MAKE: Blog on September 6, 2006 - 1:40pm

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awesome

Jason Striegel's picture

dude, this is great! thanks so much for posting it - you made my day.

and you made the pickup yourself as well? can you give us instructions for making one of these?

By Jason Striegel at September 6, 2006 - 11:48am | login or register to post comments | email this page

instructions

Stella's picture

this is great! i'm sure there are a lot of people interested in making one of their own. can you post a howto?

By Stella at September 6, 2006 - 12:05pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

piezo pickup

Jason Striegel's picture

here's some instructions for making the pickup from a radio shack piezo buzzer.

By Jason Striegel at September 6, 2006 - 12:10pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

wooden upright video with cardboard box bass

I have a video comparing my cardboard bass with a wood ¾ size double bass shown here
pretty dammm close, if ya ask me (then again, I made the box bass)
we did a 3 hour improve video session and this is the first minute of how we met in a small studio near Detroit.

By washtubbass (not verified) at September 25, 2006 - 11:07pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

hope you don't mind

Jason Striegel's picture

i went ahead and edited your post to embed the video and published it to the front page.

By Jason Striegel at September 6, 2006 - 12:00pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

Cardboard Bass

No brutal crit here! A stroke of genius as far as I'm concerned. Weed whacker cord for string? Wonderful. Who knew?

Three B

By Bubba Boom-boom (not verified) at September 6, 2006 - 3:24pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

That absolutely RULES. It

That absolutely RULES. It actually sounds great!

By Karl Elvis (not verified) at September 6, 2006 - 5:07pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

even more ghetto (but with less drilling)

is a regular speaker style pickup. Just take one of those mini-speakers from radio shack or a little portable radio or whatever, place the speaker side onto the front of your (acoustic) guitar with a big rubber band and wire up the terminals to a guitar cord (hint... one wire per terminal, two wires total) and tada!

Granted, I don't have cool sound graphs to prove that it doesn't suck really bad, but, seriously... if you are taping or rubberbanding a transducer to your guitar, do you /really/ care?

Also, if you have a nice acoustic.. PLEASE DON'T DRILL HOLES IN IT!!!!

By Rhizopogon (not verified) at September 6, 2006 - 9:44pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

Cardboard Bass

Post the plans! This thing is great.

By Jef (not verified) at September 7, 2006 - 3:47pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

PLANS!

I agree, this thing looks and sounds so spiffy, that you need to post the build details so we can all give it a try! Is the body truly cardboard? Wouldn't that suffer under the taught strings?

By Preston (not verified) at September 7, 2006 - 5:49pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

rain

the coup would be a video of you playing it in the rain...
nice job. made any other instruments before?

By Anonymous (not verified) at September 8, 2006 - 4:42am | login or register to post comments | email this page

cardboard bass

the neck goes thru the body and the strings are attached at the butt end with drywall screws... the only tension is under the bridge and yes, the cardboard box is beginning to collapse so its back to the drawing board.

By washtub bass (not verified) at September 8, 2006 - 5:16am | login or register to post comments | email this page

hmm

very cool! this would be a fun mod for an electric upright. The main thing i don't like about those things is their lack of a big fat resonating chamber. Sounds like you need to make something similar to a typical electric upright- where the body, neck, and bridge are all part of the same structure, and then have the cardboard box fit around that somehow...

By kingconga (not verified) at September 8, 2006 - 6:41pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

another homemade bass

>>>made any other instruments before?

yes, i made a fretless solidbody bass out of assorted scrap bass and guitar parts. the sound is totally wonderfuL. i have solos posted at http://www.myspace.com/thewet

my stuff is basicly trash, but fun.

By washtub_bass at September 23, 2006 - 1:11pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

another home made bass

>>>made any other instruments before?

yes, i made a fretless solidbody bass out of assorted scrap bass and guitar parts. the sound is totally wonderfuL. i have solos posted at http://www.myspace.com/thewet

my stuff is basicly trash, but fun.

By washtub_bass at September 23, 2006 - 1:09pm | login or register to post comments | email this page