Side-Tom Drum Bass - For North Glasgow Skiffle Orchestra

Side-Tom Drum Bass

For North Glasgow Skiffle Orchestra

It's a drum on a stick. - Oak straight-through neck. - 3 strings and tuners from a broken bass.

IF ANYONE CAN SUGGEST HOW TO 'FAKE' A TAPERED, CURVED FINGERBOARD...OR A BOW FROM JUNK, PLEASE LET ME KNOW - CHEERS !

Here's a video: 

Wine Box Bass

WINE BOX BASS

Can a bass guitar be made using the cigar box guitar making technique? If you have a big enough box, a good piece of hardwood for the neck, and maybe a resonator perhaps? Here's what I built...

Basics taken care of

Tone and volume pots wired and fitted

Clamped and glued...with improvised counterweight !

The finished bass

- Here's a short video, made just after I strung it...