AdamOnBass

Ha! That's what I'm thinking! I'm really limited by the tools at my disposal here - I don't have access to a router so if I can avoid a truss rod then all the better. Hence the poplar for some added stiffness. Good luck to your lad with his build, it's a rewarding experience! I still have mine - a p bass with no truss rod (guess what happened to that neck). A new neck later it's still one of my favourites twenty something years later.

It's definitely not going to sound much like a db - I was going to chuck a piezo under the bridge to approximate the sound but I'm using a couple of standard ceramic pickups too. I haven't ruled out gluing some body wings to it at a later date but for now I'm going for an EUB stick format. I was more concerned about the neck remaining stable without a truss rod. I've not got much experience with db's but I understand that they cope with the tension by having huge necks and small radius fingerboards. I was wondering what people's experiences were with the stability of the necks?

Hello, I'm about to build a homemade EUB and I'm wondering if I'll need to bother with a truss rod? It's going to be a fairly crude build. Hear me out here... It's going to be a short scale (30") made from a centre block of poplar and mahogany laminate. It'll be four strips of 19mm x 70mm x 1200mm glued together with the seams perpendicular to the fretboard. I'll shape the neck with a spoke shave, sandpaper and a lot of cursing, leaving most of the depth there so it'll be a pretty fat neck. Then I'll glue on a purpleheart fretboard and radius it to 7.25". So there's going to be plenty of wood mass there and I'm hoping to laminate construction will give it some stability - what do you guys think? Truss rod or not? Cheers!