Years ago...
TBrannon offered a 6 string bass body to the club here.
I gladly accepted the challenge. (Thanks!)

My inner muse suggested I try this build with only donated and found materials.
I thought I'd bring as much Alembic 'stylings' as I could given my imposed limitations.

Ed of "H" donated some Lakland pups and guts. (Thanks again!)
I had to spend $28 on some very cheap tuners.

Found some nice walnut, maple, and cocobolo in the wood bin.
No truss rod...I'm hoping the cocobolo lam helps with that.

I decided to have a fretless fingerboard. That makes for a nice viewing of the spalted maple,
but I can see my learning curve for playing the beast is getting a little steeper.
I have large hands..but a 6 string bass is new to me.  I might add some taper still,
the string spacing is fairly wide and parallel.


I improvised this build with little planning...a Jazz bass of sorts
Finding 5 huge Standel knobs in my parts drawer that fit was the kicker...I
knew the gods were looking down on me and laughing 
I'll solder up the guts and post some soundclips.


Here's a link to a photo album(I'll add more pics inline soon):


6 String Thing

The Standel knobs are everything!   A juxtaposition of the beautiful woods and the free form "jazz" build!  Love it.

Does the nut have extra slots?

Quote from: pauldo on April 28, 2020, 04:28:10 AM
Does the nut have extra slots?

The beginnings of a scallop-ed idea, I might scoop them out more to show
the layering.


(also...the bridge plate is a xylophone key... E flat)

cool bridge

Nice to see it take flight.   

That Spalted Maple looks nice!  Congrats on the build!

Nice! It's a great time to do projects like this!