The third bass I made at the Bailey workshop was a fretless one. I put on flat wound strings to give it the woody sound of a double bass. But after some time I changed them again to round wounds for a...

Beautiful work as ever Marcel. That maple top looks superb. What was pear wood like to work with? Thanks, the pear wood was actually quite easy to work with.

I sold this one. But @deej would have been your friend ? Beautiful work as ever Marcel. That maple top looks superb. What was pear wood like to work with?

After making a number of basses of my own design I decided to make some basses of a more classical design. The first one was this Jazz bass. But I wanted to give it a personal twist. So instead of a c...

I’ll take that for your work...

"Who knows..." meaning "There a slight theoretical chance..."

Well, start playing the bass and maybe next year who knows... I’ll hold you to that... ?

I suppose once you glue it onto the neck it’s pretty stable. flat sawn on that wood does look nice..

did I mention it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks... I can’t believe as I type this but I may get into playing basses after seeing the recent posts of your work. Well, start playing the bass and ...

One of the most fun things when I want to make a guitar or bass is thinking of the woods I want to use. A couple of years ago when I was at my wood supplier's place (Masave woods in Zwolle, Netherlan...

I can’t believe as I type this but I may get into playing basses after seeing the recent posts of your work.

Well I’m glad the be your “friend”...Virtual or otherwise...did I mention it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks... ? Seriously though great work again. You have a tasteful eye on shape and selection ...

I liked the sound of the fretless bass I had made very much so I decided to make a bass with the same type of pickup (Seymour Duncan SMB 4a). But with other woods. Ash body with a myrtle top, maple (s...

@marcel One of my mates has a lovely Gretchen 30” baritone guitar and it sounds awesome..I also think schecter used to do a 30”... yeah the longer scales for bass where for a couple of guys who play 6...

The person who I bought my “raw” bodies & necks from makes guitars for a couple of fairly top end (£3k+) brands. Sometimes he’d get something part made and then a fault would emerge (eg ugly mark ...

@deej I’ve used stain and oi Which stains / oils? I’ve been using Crimson’s stains exclusively for a few years now, and not had that issue. Though I have learned *not* to wet oil a stained body.

@jmcmi93888 I would say it’s worked very well. I started like that with no fancy tools and violin callipers which are not long enough to reach the middle, so it was a guess on thickness.

Hi Rocknroller. Without all the right modern piller drills and cnc stuff I had to think of another way to "carve" the plates. The spikey ball technique worked exceptionally well on the "Thistle 2 arch...

@jmcmi93888 Remarkable progress considering what you started with. One quick method for hollowing is to drill holes inside with a depth stop on the drill, then rough out till the hole marks disappear....

@jmcmi93888 That looks really good! Keep going 🙂