rumblefish Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 After working on a video shoot for the band Dead Crow Road ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdTRwFDmyY ) I decided to build a tea chest bass from those useful bits and pieces that you find down the shed. The tea chest bass comprises: 1960 pre CBS Brooke Bond tea chest, 2004 broomstick, Headstock sawn off of my 1958 Fender P Bass (NOOOOOOOOOO!!) :0) Construction Notes Using my P bass to obtain a template the headstock was cut out of a piece of wood with a jigsaw. A single schaller tuning key was fitted to the headstock . The headstock was then attached to the broomstick utilising a hanging rail from a wardrobe with some screws normally used to mount a mirror. Structural wooden support bars were added to the bottom of the tea chest A length of nylon strimmer wire was utilised as a string. Sounds great, just need to work on some form of transducer to amplify the bass. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 I love this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pea Turgh Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Grab an old speaker and wire it up to an XLR? Piezo maybe? Or both! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pea Turgh Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.soundonsound.com/techniques/studio-sos-amplifying-recording-tea-chest-bass%3famp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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