lol. It's kind of dark, but I've gotten a lot of tools and "precious" things like this when grandpa passes away and the kids and grandkids have no interest in or don't know what all the stuff is. When one is dealing with such a loss and is overwhelmed with cleaning out a well lived in house, it's hard to be discriminate. They are affixed on his favorite chair or antique clock, not the bloicks of wood in a basement. In this case I wasn't there but a friend in the business was who bought, for pennies on the dollar, as much of the valuable stuff as he knew he could resell for a slight maerkup to people like me. I've done the same. So I ended up buying about $2000 worth of wood for $200. When I'm on the scene, I'm always honest with the owners about value and try to be sensitive to the situation, not like an excited kid in a candy store. I show reverence and respect for the collection and let them know grandpa was awesome for having such a basement! For example, I'll pull out one vintage Stanley plane and say this, restored, is worth $200. At a flea market you can get $50 for it, as is. There's a whole bucket of them there. I'll give you $25 each for all of them and make sure they go to the right peoiple who will use and love them. I personally have been looking for this model for a while... etc. (true story on the Stanleys I sold them off for about what I paid for them in an online maker group.) I expect when I die, something similar will happen with all my stuff - and those same planes! We never really own anything, just borrow it...
Your instruments always amaze me in the way that they are so meticulously, yet efficiently produced. Every design choice is made with complete ambivalence to convention, instead trusting your well trained intuition and expectations of what the instrument needs to be. It's so damn clever.
I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel - for better and for worse. Most of the time my efforts reveal the wheel is just fine the way it is, but sometimes I find some new, little thing about it...
A little bit of thought, a little bit of trial and error... That's why I make these videos. To challenge perceptions and the status quo - and encourage others to do so, too.
Tim! Thanks so much to lending me your genius in building this instrument. I should be getting it in the mail today. I lost my father 12 years ago and promised to teach myself bass in his memory. With my fiancé passing away this past April (a guitarist) I am equally committed to learning that instrument as well, so this is the perfect tool to honor both of them! Thanks for adding this piece of art to the world and looking forward to more work in the future 🙏💪
man I just love watching you build instruments. anyone else uses the fancy tools and I get frustrated. I watch this and got excited, lol. This is a cool instrument. I play bass and I want to start making my own but I'm probably going to be doing it by hand tools mostly.
Wow, that's really cool! You know what it ended up reminding me of? Those guitars Rick Turner made for Lindsay Buckingham - the shape isn't the same, but the proportions and the headstock aren't a million miles away.
I’ve had a nylon-string acoustic octave mandolin with harp guitar style bass strings rotating in my head for the last year or so, and your bass has a perfect inner structure to adapt. Thanks for sharing!
I've been making CNC guitars and basses for years now but your creativity and craftsmanship never cease to amaze me. You are a gifted artiste and I thank you for sharing your genius works.
I really appreciate the ukulele scale length range. I just ordered a 20 inch scale length 5 string bass tuned it fifths. At 20 inches or less, the frets are close together enough to play in fifths tuning without crazy stretching required.
Really like this whole project: 10:20, and then seeing the 'strings-straight-thru-nut-to-tuner' at 10:26 was a detail I was wondering about, and looking for: and there it is.
He says he wants to thin out the heel by hand and then grabs a forstner bit and a router. 🤷🤦♂️😆 This looks and sounds pretty amazing. I really like the idea of using that lip. It looks like it turned out like how I've seen some old semi-hollow bodied guitars look... ones without the binding. I think you nailed it!
The hollow door wood against the mahogany looks awesome, nice build! I guess it wouldn't be too hard to put a buffer for the piezo in the control cavity, but you'd need to add a battery.
You've been such an inspiration to me Tim, I'm finally on the luthier course I had my eyes on two years ago. It's absolutely nothing like your process as it stands, 90% hand tools and absolutely no abrasives allowed! But I've learnt a lot already, knowing I eventually want to do things more in the Tim way in the future. My interest is in the weird and non standard just like this, I hope I get to do things like this by request in the future. I want to make a short scale 6 string bass (B to C) for myself one day! I have the ibanez short scale 5 and it's perfect. The least floppy b string I've ever tried actually
congrats! Indeed, I do not do things the way it would be taught in luthier school. Here's a TRUE story I always tell that I think best illustrates my philosophy towards, well, life! When I was a young man I worked as a cook with three guys who were older then me. One learned to cook by working the same dead end job for 15 years and bragged about all his "real world" experience. "The school of hard knocks." One went to a fancy culinary school and did everything by the book, convinced the tried-and-true traditional way was the best. 10 years later was in the same position Both were convinced their way was best. But the third guy came in after working in a few different jobs and would try new things. He's ask guy 1 and two how they did things, take the best elements of their "tried and true" methods and leave behind what he didn't like. He'd try crazy ideas. Sometimes they would totally fail! And sometimes they would be amazing, more efficient, better tasting, cost less... I worked in that kitchen for three years and looked to the third guy as my mentor. Not because I understood this sage wisdom I later pulled from this experience, but because he seemed the happiest and was the most fun to be with! By the time I left, the first guy got fired, and the second guy was still doing the same job. The third guy moved on to bigger and better things. I took his position then moved on to bigger and better things myself, right up to today! Moral of the story: Just because it's the way YOU always do it, doesn't automatically mean it's the best way. Just because it's in a book and been taught for hundreds of years also doesn't automatically mean it's the best way. And just because you are brave enough to test both of them doesn't mean you will always find a better way, but you'll never know unless you try - and yes, there's still room to discover something new! Absorb all you learn at school, but don't look at it like it's scripture, rather just a sketch.
Wise words indeed, I was expecting it to be really prescriptive and strict from what I gathered from open days and etc, but I'm happy to find out the tutors are really laid back and often say "this is how I do it but it's not the only way, you will find your own way", and there's a huge mix of skill and experience in the students too and we are all learning from and teaching each other. Which is a huge relief because I'm not the best at sticking to the rules 😅
Sweet! I have an Ibanez SRC6 (their take on a Bass VI that looks like a mini Soundgear) that I recently re-finished from "walnut flat" to "matte black" and I've been looking to build a similar instrument as a near-future project :D
Very cool. I think this construction is similar to what PRS does for their hollowbody II guitars, where they affix a front and back to a cut frame. The size reminds me of those Guild Ashbory basses with the silicon strings from the 80s which I always kinda wanted one of.
I've used the strings from a 5-string set + whichever guitar string made sense for the high e on my own shortscale bass VI, which is just a regular guitar with huge strings, it works pretty well, I've documented it on video, the low string is something like a 125.
It doesn't look like you did a tilt-back on the headstock to get stronger tension at the nut for the low strings. It might've helped to install a string tree or retaining bar to help tighten them up. That's not an uncommon problem on bass VIs - my Squire VI has that problem at 30" scale, and I've got a string tree in a bag that I intend to install (assuming the spacer is tall enough; I haven't tried a test fit yet).
@@timsway Ah, OK. It was hard to tell if there was some angle to it. I know Gibson uses like a 17deg tilt while nearly every other manufacturer that does it uses 12-13deg. In that case, I don't know if altering the break angle a bit more would help or not.
yes, it's passively in there, which is why the volume is noticeably different. Active electronics could be added to make everything work together better and more seamlessly, but that was outside of the scope and budget of this project.
@@timsway THANKYOU again, Just searching a quick way to add some "crunch" with acoustic humbucker to my already fine old mikrodred takamini that has (very good) passive piezo....and many other Dreams..
Hi Tim, It was kool to see you built that mini bass. Impressive having not only the knowledge and experience, but also all the necessary tools. I wanted to ask you if is posible from the musical stand point to make a kind of Tylor baby type guitar, but with a wider neck at the nut. (I don’t mean to built a Taylor per sé) 😂
absolutely. I'm tooling up to up my acoustic game right now. I have a lot to learn and experiment with to make them within my style and ethos. Stay tuned and feel free to contact me directly to discuss custom builds.
Did you think about adding some bracing between the sides and the 'centre block' during the CNC? Not sure if it would have effected the sound much but I would guess it would add some extra strength
I didn't deem in necessary as the body is so small and the sides are so thick. The guitar would work as is without a back and top, which would be kind of cool to do :) If I were bending sides I would have to do that for sure.
I was wondering why I haven't been seeing your videos lately. TH-cam strikes again. Bingeing videos and catching up. Awesome build yet again. Would love to see you and burlsart Collab on an awesome piece
Man i would love to have this bass vi. I don’t play traditional bass anymore and have a squire bass vi and use fingerstyle techniques on. One day i’ll have this guy build me one
@@timsway awesome man. Honestly there are Bass VI players like myself that are wanting a body type like this. It looks like it feels comfortable and not wonky like the BassVI I use. Man I would not touch any other Bass VI if I ever own one like this. Parade this build like its a golden child lol
Interesting little instrument. I wonder if fanned frets could do the trick to improve tension on the low strings. Additionally I wonder how long the instrument will hold up? It has to be under a fair amount of tension with those heavy strings and I wonder if that body is sturdy enough to keep it together in the long run?
Wow that’s awesome Tim. It looks like the string spacing is a bit wider than a bass vi which appeals to me. Is that the case? Also what scale length is that? Are you using a bass vi string set? I think a short scale headless version would be incredible as well:)
is is a tad wider at the nut than a full length bass vi, more akin to about how wide it would be around the 4th or 5th fret. It's a trick used on shorter instruments so it's not like playing a steep triangle. 23.5" with a set of heavy bass vi strings.
simple solution could be to tune it a bit higher, no? unless you really need the low E, there is a lot of bass stuff you can play with a higher tuning, just need to change a bit how you play it
Thanks. Was just thinking of you tonight. So a bass vi is tuned like a guitar, EADGBE, but an octave lower, like a bass, unlike a 6 string bass which usually goes BEADGC
It reminds me of that little guitar Lindsay Buckingham used to use on stage, not sure what it’s called… anyways, fantastic instrument you’ve made there! All the best
WOW! I'm getting ready to order a Bass VI either Squier or Harley Benton but would much prefer this. Please tell me how to get one or something like it. I'm a big fan of short-scale basses and minis! I have zero talent or equipment for woodworking
You can contact me direct via newperspectivesmusic.com. Pricewise I can compete with American factory made guitars but it's not possible to do so with the imports. Here's something to keep in mind when buying import instruments like the brands you listed and I'm not directing this just at you but ANYONE who will listen: The quality can really be there in a cheap import guitar Some of them are great, , no doubt! But think about it, for you to get a guitar made overseas here for $300, that means basically every person between you and the wood cut down to make it was probably ripped off, mistreated and abused to make that happen for you to get that deal and the head merchants to earn a profit. Not to mention the resources used to make it quickly and cheaply. It's like that for most of our cheap imports. Is that an industry you want to be a part of and support to save money on a guitar? Im guilty of it, too, before I knew any better. There are thousands of guys like me in every local economy to choose from and support over imports and even American factories that support the industry. Us musicians can do better and show the world how it's done - fairly.
Your definitely getting into your own style, all your playing with different techniques and styles seems to be coming together into a definite brand, BTW I've missed some time somehow what ever happened to the crazy vertically mounted cnc?
I still have it but I rarely use it because I have that nice Avid CNC that is much faster and easier to use. It's also almost literally 10X the price, tho, y'know? There's a market for both.
@@MUDBLUD_Official do you understand what a bass vi is? it's a guitar tuned down an octave with 6, bigger strings to get the tension right for the pitch. So... yes! lol. The scale length is irrelevant, as long as the frets are spaced proper for the scale length. No rules on that stuff any more. We're even making guitars with multiple scale lengths across the strings! (fanned frets)
Who throws a block of mahogany away?! Where is this magical dumpster on a megaoblivion job site?
lol. It's kind of dark, but I've gotten a lot of tools and "precious" things like this when grandpa passes away and the kids and grandkids have no interest in or don't know what all the stuff is.
When one is dealing with such a loss and is overwhelmed with cleaning out a well lived in house, it's hard to be discriminate. They are affixed on his favorite chair or antique clock, not the bloicks of wood in a basement.
In this case I wasn't there but a friend in the business was who bought, for pennies on the dollar, as much of the valuable stuff as he knew he could resell for a slight maerkup to people like me. I've done the same. So I ended up buying about $2000 worth of wood for $200.
When I'm on the scene, I'm always honest with the owners about value and try to be sensitive to the situation, not like an excited kid in a candy store. I show reverence and respect for the collection and let them know grandpa was awesome for having such a basement!
For example, I'll pull out one vintage Stanley plane and say this, restored, is worth $200. At a flea market you can get $50 for it, as is. There's a whole bucket of them there. I'll give you $25 each for all of them and make sure they go to the right peoiple who will use and love them. I personally have been looking for this model for a while... etc. (true story on the Stanleys I sold them off for about what I paid for them in an online maker group.)
I expect when I die, something similar will happen with all my stuff - and those same planes! We never really own anything, just borrow it...
Great soundtrack BTW.
Nice music! A very cool instrument! Thanks! 😎
Your instruments always amaze me in the way that they are so meticulously, yet efficiently produced. Every design choice is made with complete ambivalence to convention, instead trusting your well trained intuition and expectations of what the instrument needs to be. It's so damn clever.
I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel - for better and for worse. Most of the time my efforts reveal the wheel is just fine the way it is, but sometimes I find some new, little thing about it...
I had my doubts about a mini bass VI going into this video, but here you are once again changing my thoughts of how instruments can be made.
A little bit of thought, a little bit of trial and error... That's why I make these videos. To challenge perceptions and the status quo - and encourage others to do so, too.
That looks like a load of fun!
What an amazing instrument. It’s a bass. It’s a guitar.
It's a basitar!
Tim! Thanks so much to lending me your genius in building this instrument. I should be getting it in the mail today. I lost my father 12 years ago and promised to teach myself bass in his memory. With my fiancé passing away this past April (a guitarist) I am equally committed to learning that instrument as well, so this is the perfect tool to honor both of them! Thanks for adding this piece of art to the world and looking forward to more work in the future 🙏💪
Thanks for sharing the backstory and sorry for your losses. I'm am looking forward to hearing what you do with it.
Thank you for sharing. Hope your journey is going well.
When I come back and see you build with your fantastic soundtrack it is AMAZING...
man I just love watching you build instruments. anyone else uses the fancy tools and I get frustrated. I watch this and got excited, lol. This is a cool instrument. I play bass and I want to start making my own but I'm probably going to be doing it by hand tools mostly.
It's like a little mini version of Thundercat's custom Ibanez I love it
*sees it* haha
Yeah it kinda is!! I absolutely love his bass 🥰🥰
Wow, that's really cool!
You know what it ended up reminding me of? Those guitars Rick Turner made for Lindsay Buckingham - the shape isn't the same, but the proportions and the headstock aren't a million miles away.
I love me some in-between kinda instruments. All the hybrids, extended ranges and baritones and VI's and just yeah. They're great!
I’ve had a nylon-string acoustic octave mandolin with harp guitar style bass strings rotating in my head for the last year or so, and your bass has a perfect inner structure to adapt. Thanks for sharing!
I've been making CNC guitars and basses for years now but your creativity and craftsmanship never cease to amaze me. You are a gifted artiste and I thank you for sharing your genius works.
Beautiful
I really appreciate the ukulele scale length range. I just ordered a 20 inch scale length 5 string bass tuned it fifths. At 20 inches or less, the frets are close together enough to play in fifths tuning without crazy stretching required.
I build them. Shortest has 19 inch scale length, 4 string, tuned in 5ths -- D,A,E,B. Monster sound. Perfect intonation.
You clever bastard! I LOVE the transparency & honesty in your description & presentation.
I neglected to tell you l LOVE that headstock, the shape, the LOGO looks 👍 GREAT!!!
This is what I'm here for. Unique, cool, and pretty designs. And functional too! Thanks for sharing!
thanks for sticking around all these years :)
The song used in the beginning of this video is so good!
thanks. all stuff i recorded instead of using other "royalty free" sound banks
Really like this whole project: 10:20, and then seeing the 'strings-straight-thru-nut-to-tuner' at 10:26 was a detail I was wondering about, and looking for: and there it is.
He says he wants to thin out the heel by hand and then grabs a forstner bit and a router. 🤷🤦♂️😆
This looks and sounds pretty amazing. I really like the idea of using that lip. It looks like it turned out like how I've seen some old semi-hollow bodied guitars look... ones without the binding. I think you nailed it!
lol yea. vs cnc. I held the router with my hands :-p
The hollow door wood against the mahogany looks awesome, nice build! I guess it wouldn't be too hard to put a buffer for the piezo in the control cavity, but you'd need to add a battery.
that could all be added for sure.
I don't always agree with your design decisions but THIS.. THIS I like!
Killer video as always.
I happen to have a 30” scale length neck. I think this might be my next project. Thanks, TS.
You've been such an inspiration to me Tim, I'm finally on the luthier course I had my eyes on two years ago. It's absolutely nothing like your process as it stands, 90% hand tools and absolutely no abrasives allowed! But I've learnt a lot already, knowing I eventually want to do things more in the Tim way in the future. My interest is in the weird and non standard just like this, I hope I get to do things like this by request in the future.
I want to make a short scale 6 string bass (B to C) for myself one day! I have the ibanez short scale 5 and it's perfect. The least floppy b string I've ever tried actually
congrats! Indeed, I do not do things the way it would be taught in luthier school. Here's a TRUE story I always tell that I think best illustrates my philosophy towards, well, life!
When I was a young man I worked as a cook with three guys who were older then me. One learned to cook by working the same dead end job for 15 years and bragged about all his "real world" experience. "The school of hard knocks."
One went to a fancy culinary school and did everything by the book, convinced the tried-and-true traditional way was the best. 10 years later was in the same position Both were convinced their way was best.
But the third guy came in after working in a few different jobs and would try new things. He's ask guy 1 and two how they did things, take the best elements of their "tried and true" methods and leave behind what he didn't like. He'd try crazy ideas. Sometimes they would totally fail! And sometimes they would be amazing, more efficient, better tasting, cost less...
I worked in that kitchen for three years and looked to the third guy as my mentor. Not because I understood this sage wisdom I later pulled from this experience, but because he seemed the happiest and was the most fun to be with!
By the time I left, the first guy got fired, and the second guy was still doing the same job. The third guy moved on to bigger and better things. I took his position then moved on to bigger and better things myself, right up to today!
Moral of the story: Just because it's the way YOU always do it, doesn't automatically mean it's the best way. Just because it's in a book and been taught for hundreds of years also doesn't automatically mean it's the best way.
And just because you are brave enough to test both of them doesn't mean you will always find a better way, but you'll never know unless you try - and yes, there's still room to discover something new! Absorb all you learn at school, but don't look at it like it's scripture, rather just a sketch.
Wise words indeed, I was expecting it to be really prescriptive and strict from what I gathered from open days and etc, but I'm happy to find out the tutors are really laid back and often say "this is how I do it but it's not the only way, you will find your own way", and there's a huge mix of skill and experience in the students too and we are all learning from and teaching each other. Which is a huge relief because I'm not the best at sticking to the rules 😅
This is your coolest build yet Tim.
That thing is awesome :)
Genius. Weird yes. But genius. We love you Timmy Boy.
Cliff
Reminds me of Charlie Hunter's hybrid guitars, just mini
Groovy! And I love to see the bass builds. Well done.
That thing is rad. Watching the evolution of your builds is fascinating
thanks!
Bellísimo! de las mejores cosas que te vimos construir! felicidades, desde Buenos Aires, Argentina!
Cool build! The music playing after cutting the recess reminded me of every cop movie from the 1970’s!😂
lol. thanks. I make my own background music, too :)
Digging it! Thanks for the inspiration, yet again. I can't wait to get more time in the shop...
I really like this! Seems like it would be a lot of fun to play.
Awesome 6 string mini bass.
Man, I REALLY like this
Man! I love It. This machines and your ideas to bring to material world... So harmonious. 👏🏻
Well done Tim! Your Guitar/Bass building skills are really very impressive my friend! 👍👍🎸🎸
thanks man, getting there!
Sweet! I have an Ibanez SRC6 (their take on a Bass VI that looks like a mini Soundgear) that I recently re-finished from "walnut flat" to "matte black" and I've been looking to build a similar instrument as a near-future project :D
Of course you've tried the little Kala bass ukes, with surgical tubing for strings? Maybe more floppy than you'd like.
those strings don't work with magnetic pickups
This is my favourite of your instruments! I love it!
I'd love to give that a spin!
Oh man, I already sent it out to its new home :(
Hope you're good!
Inspired by the red special?
Beautitful instrument!
How about Fender 24-100 Gauge Strings?
I really want a bridge pickup on this... get them surf sounds.
Oh - cool idea, yeah...
Awesome video and another amazing instrument!!!
My favorite so far.
Super cool instrument. Possibly making more?
You order it, I'll make it for you! lol. I am exploring the concept more and in different ways, too.
Very cool. I think this construction is similar to what PRS does for their hollowbody II guitars, where they affix a front and back to a cut frame.
The size reminds me of those Guild Ashbory basses with the silicon strings from the 80s which I always kinda wanted one of.
yea, I've made a few 4 strings in this scale, too. It's kinda fun :)
Fascinating ! Thank You !
I've used the strings from a 5-string set + whichever guitar string made sense for the high e on my own shortscale bass VI, which is just a regular guitar with huge strings, it works pretty well, I've documented it on video, the low string is something like a 125.
yea, that's the key to it, but it the big strings start to feel HUGE on such a small instrument. Always trying to thread the needle...
It doesn't look like you did a tilt-back on the headstock to get stronger tension at the nut for the low strings. It might've helped to install a string tree or retaining bar to help tighten them up. That's not an uncommon problem on bass VIs - my Squire VI has that problem at 30" scale, and I've got a string tree in a bag that I intend to install (assuming the spacer is tall enough; I haven't tried a test fit yet).
the head stock tilts back. Not as much as a Gibson but enough, even under low tension like it is now.
@@timsway Ah, OK. It was hard to tell if there was some angle to it. I know Gibson uses like a 17deg tilt while nearly every other manufacturer that does it uses 12-13deg. In that case, I don't know if altering the break angle a bit more would help or not.
Really love that body design.
Very cool. Reminds me of Lindsey Buckingham. Just in bass form! Love the neck!
Unfortunately, you can't find such wood in dumpsters here in Bulgaria. Great build by the way!
It is very rare that it happens here, too...
Very nice Tim awesome job
I love it man! whatever you call this, I love it
these are the BEST vids.
Thank you Tim, another instrument i never thinked of, and now would like to own one XD
Great video. Super dope bass. Crazy what people throw away. One man's trash is another man's...sickness. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Yea, it's not every day you fnd a 100lb block of mahogany heading for the dumpster, but it happens!
Hell yeah, Tim. This is a sick machine. Love it!
HaaaaaaaI want 3! Seriously beautiful! How did you "couple" the magnetic and piezo? A simple parallel? And can It work as passive? THANKYOU 🤟
yes, it's passively in there, which is why the volume is noticeably different. Active electronics could be added to make everything work together better and more seamlessly, but that was outside of the scope and budget of this project.
@@timsway THANKYOU again, Just searching a quick way to add some "crunch" with acoustic humbucker to my already fine old mikrodred takamini that has (very good) passive piezo....and many other Dreams..
That's pretty slick man!
The instrument is so cool!
Hi Tim, It was kool to see you built that mini bass. Impressive having not only the knowledge and experience, but also all the necessary tools. I wanted to ask you if is posible from the musical stand point to make a kind of Tylor baby type guitar, but with a wider neck at the nut. (I don’t mean to built a Taylor per sé) 😂
absolutely. I'm tooling up to up my acoustic game right now. I have a lot to learn and experiment with to make them within my style and ethos. Stay tuned and feel free to contact me directly to discuss custom builds.
Did you think about adding some bracing between the sides and the 'centre block' during the CNC? Not sure if it would have effected the sound much but I would guess it would add some extra strength
I didn't deem in necessary as the body is so small and the sides are so thick. The guitar would work as is without a back and top, which would be kind of cool to do :) If I were bending sides I would have to do that for sure.
I was wondering why I haven't been seeing your videos lately. TH-cam strikes again. Bingeing videos and catching up. Awesome build yet again. Would love to see you and burlsart Collab on an awesome piece
you gotta click the bell to be sure you see them. otherwise it's the wild west, subscriptions don't even mean much anymore
Man i would love to have this bass vi. I don’t play traditional bass anymore and have a squire bass vi and use fingerstyle techniques on. One day i’ll have this guy build me one
Any time! check out the next video I'll be posting in the next couple weeks. I think you'll dig it :)
@@timsway awesome man. Honestly there are Bass VI players like myself that are wanting a body type like this. It looks like it feels comfortable and not wonky like the BassVI I use. Man I would not touch any other Bass VI if I ever own one like this. Parade this build like its a golden child lol
Interesting little instrument. I wonder if fanned frets could do the trick to improve tension on the low strings.
Additionally I wonder how long the instrument will hold up? It has to be under a fair amount of tension with those heavy strings and I wonder if that body is sturdy enough to keep it together in the long run?
the tension isn't that big of a deal, actually, because the neck is so short.
Neat... This makes me think of Danelectro..... figuring out how to simplify construction.... and pushing the envelope with unusual instruments.
love em or hat em, danelectros have their own sound and vibe. that is indeed inspirational to me!
Love it Tim 👍
That is Crazy Cool!
Wow that’s awesome Tim.
It looks like the string spacing is a bit wider than a bass vi which appeals to me. Is that the case? Also what scale length is that? Are you using a bass vi string set?
I think a short scale headless version would be incredible as well:)
is is a tad wider at the nut than a full length bass vi, more akin to about how wide it would be around the 4th or 5th fret. It's a trick used on shorter instruments so it's not like playing a steep triangle. 23.5" with a set of heavy bass vi strings.
Very cool. Same string notes as a guitar?
yes!
I found a set of golf clubs in a dumpster once. Your mahogany find is much better. I still sucked at golf.
simple solution could be to tune it a bit higher, no? unless you really need the low E, there is a lot of bass stuff you can play with a higher tuning, just need to change a bit how you play it
Beautiful!! Is that a low B string?
Thanks. Was just thinking of you tonight. So a bass vi is tuned like a guitar, EADGBE, but an octave lower, like a bass, unlike a 6 string bass which usually goes BEADGC
Good shit Tim!
It reminds me of that little guitar Lindsay Buckingham used to use on stage, not sure what it’s called… anyways, fantastic instrument you’ve made there! All the best
WOW! I'm getting ready to order a Bass VI either Squier or Harley Benton but would much prefer this. Please tell me how to get one or something like it. I'm a big fan of short-scale basses and minis! I have zero talent or equipment for woodworking
You can contact me direct via newperspectivesmusic.com.
Pricewise I can compete with American factory made guitars but it's not possible to do so with the imports. Here's something to keep in mind when buying import instruments like the brands you listed and I'm not directing this just at you but ANYONE who will listen:
The quality can really be there in a cheap import guitar Some of them are great, , no doubt! But think about it, for you to get a guitar made overseas here for $300, that means basically every person between you and the wood cut down to make it was probably ripped off, mistreated and abused to make that happen for you to get that deal and the head merchants to earn a profit. Not to mention the resources used to make it quickly and cheaply.
It's like that for most of our cheap imports. Is that an industry you want to be a part of and support to save money on a guitar? Im guilty of it, too, before I knew any better. There are thousands of guys like me in every local economy to choose from and support over imports and even American factories that support the industry.
Us musicians can do better and show the world how it's done - fairly.
i gotta tell you tim... you need to get this into the hands of Maddison Cunningham... I think she would love this!!!
What could have been interesting would have been a fan freated design to counteract the sloppy low strings
stay tuned! I'm working on something you're gonna dig :)
@@timsway ok looking forward to it!
I thought 2:30 was a close-up of the fretboard
hahaha! I see it. That must have been a mind trip like an Escher painting for you!
Half a minute in and... Local Maple is a good cat name 😻😁
or band :)
I love it.... how is the cost?, do you send to other countries?, i live in Chile, south America, please tell me... Greetings!
you can email me directly to discuss a custom build. I do ship to other countries but it is usually prohibitively expensive and risky.
@@timsway thanks Tim
Your definitely getting into your own style, all your playing with different techniques and styles seems to be coming together into a definite brand, BTW I've missed some time somehow what ever happened to the crazy vertically mounted cnc?
I still have it but I rarely use it because I have that nice Avid CNC that is much faster and easier to use. It's also almost literally 10X the price, tho, y'know? There's a market for both.
I love it!!!!
What's the price for one of these beauties?
you can contact me via newperspectivesmusic.com to discuss :)
Bad Ass tutorial! Aloha from Hawaii.
I mean isn't a mini bass 6 just a guitar??? What's the scale length?
It's an octave lower than a guitar. 23.5"
@@timsway that doesn't really make since. There's no way it's intonated correctly
you just gotta do the math,get the right string thickness, etc. Not hard. @@MUDBLUD_Official
@@timsway yeah I know And your math isn't adding up this isn't a bass vi it's a short scale guitar with big strings on it.
@@MUDBLUD_Official do you understand what a bass vi is? it's a guitar tuned down an octave with 6, bigger strings to get the tension right for the pitch. So... yes! lol. The scale length is irrelevant, as long as the frets are spaced proper for the scale length. No rules on that stuff any more. We're even making guitars with multiple scale lengths across the strings! (fanned frets)
HOW?
Want!!!
13th LIKE, 58th view happening... what's Tim up to now...?! (Curious owner of a KALA U-Bass wants to know...)
put a .100" on the low E
J’adore !!!!!
that sweet chromatic jazz though
Sometimes it would be nice to hear your instruments played by someone that can actually play!
lol. sometimes I get guest musicians to play them
I clearly hang around the wrong dumpsters.
It's very rare that a 100lb block of mahogany is heading that way, but it happens. I have eyes and ears all around the state that keep me in mind :)