![]() Fret slotting saw, forstner drill bits (14 and 18 mm for these tuning pegs), band saw or sabre saw, an axe and a potato peeler. string trees though I made my own from a small scrap of wood for the Rodmaster. bass ukulele strings there are a wide variety of these and they need to be roughly matched with your planned scale length or vice versa. fret wire - I used 2.4 mm for the Fenwick Rodmaster or not - The Chanenbacker is fretless I have seen full bass size frets used which looks a little wrong for some reason. Since originally writing this instructible I switched to using a tile cutting blade in an angle grinder, which is considerably faster. It can be a lot of work to widen the slot so don't waste any more time than you need to. As you can see from the next picture I fitted each of the tuners to one of the strings by process of progressive widening. bottom - A set of open tuners for a regular bass (this type can be easily flipped left or right the far right one has been disassembled) or you can splurge on the purpose built bass ukulele tuners.įar right - something to quickly and easily widen those slots to fit the thick bass uke strings - this 2 inch diamond wheel is a little flimsy but eventually does the trick (if you did splurge on the purpose built tuning pegs you won't need this). third from left, a Fender style neck attachment plate (optional - this build is going to be a stick through and other designs are also possible), I have heard it told that the rod version is better. I have seen people build cigar box guitar basses with only disc piezos. second from left an acoustic bass piezo pickup (it is about 70mm wide and has 4 big lumps which are the individual pickups for each string). Some of these active preamps include tuners which some people find handy. I much prefer the final look of the bass active preamp I used for the Rodmaster rather than the sit in top box preamp I put on the Chanenbacker. top left a pre-wired passive volume tone control or variant (not strictly necessary at all) I have used active control circuits in all my builds there are plenty of active and passive controllers and preamps available. ![]() You will need to buy some parts - I haven't got them all in this photo and not all of them are absolutely essential.
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