Hi All
This is my first post here, I come mostly from the electric world of 4 strings. I’ve been playing with the idea of acoustic basses for a while, and recently built this:
It’s a fully acoustic 31” 4 string, 15.75” lower bout, x-braced, with both a top and back that have been pushed into a 15 foot radius by the bracing. There’s a K&K pure under the soundboard.
My goal was not to build a bass that can be used unamplified. This is an impossible goal unless the body is the size of a small car. I wanted it to have an acoustic volume loud enough to practise at home, and an amplified voice that was acoustic in nature.
As a first attempt at this design, I’m very very happy with how it turned out.
Heres a few pics including one showing the size difference from a regular 17" string archtop and a tenor ukulele in the background. Built pretty much the same as a six string but with the suspension bridge for lack of a better term, bracing as per Bill Moll. Blackberry pics from a long time ago so not too crisp. I'm not very good at progress pics.
