3-string Bass

[dancid82]

awsome! love stuff like this. (upright bass) gonna make my own. ill send ya pics

[talc89a]

i took 3 guitar tuners, weedwacker twine, some screws, a shoe box, and a small piece of wood, and a piece of oak and made a 3 string upright bass tuned to a-d-g. It is 1/4 size. the oak goes through the body and comes out the bottem acting like an endpin.

[washtubbass]

@talc89a cooL cooL cooL... post a vid :)

[talc89a]

@washtubbass ok...i will try

[talc89a]

@washtubbass i upgraded it to a 2 stringer a bigger box and nuts n bolts for tuners. thanks for the inspuration

[sammyboi269a]

Any plans?

[headbangerthebest]

did you build it?

[danny239]

can u get one with 4 strings

[Zeldafoo9]

that's so cool, I should get one of these. It sounds good for some cardboard, but I doubt it could compete with my real upright bass.

[kloaStoawonga]

can u do slap stuff with this bass ?

[rshawninc]

what were the dementions of the box? and how long was the piece of wood u used 4 the neck

[XRamhaimX]

what material is used for the strings? i know its tuned to E A and D but what is used for the strings?

[washtubbass]

weed whacker twine. it just wouldnt make sense to use actual bass strings on a cardboard box bass.

[RobertRoche]

Great!!!

Good seeing you at NAMM.

-Roche

[volume11video]

Cool! Your humility is respectable, but don't sell your music short, it's the entertainment and not 64th-note arpeggios that stays in the chest-mounted groove locker.

James Jamerson makes me want to dance more than Jaco ever did...

[thelowmax]

It's funny you say that. I long for more recordings of Jaco's earlier stuff, playing chicken pickin' r & b grooves.

[ssteiyne]

very awesome!

[dehromitelli]

its sounds like a jaco's exercise

[washtubbass]

yikes! not in my wildest dreams could i ever play a Jaco exercise! but thank you for saying so, i just played few nothings here to show what this cardboard box bass sounds like.

[dehromitelli]

by the way,what a great sound for a cardbox upright... I'm looking for something like this here in Brazil, but unfortunately I can not find any music store selling a cardbox upright bass, hehe... I'll build my own in the near future, can u teach me, maybe?

[dougsduarte]

I showed the Boxbass in the music college where I study and it made much success between colleagues. My professor Daniel Morales think the instrument is very good. I intend, also, to use it in the discipline of American Latin Music and we will play a tango from Astor piazzola, the Libertango. When it will be ready I will record and post it in youtube, certainly I will inform you. GoodBye! Douglas Duarte - bass player of BIZPO DO ROZÁRIO band

Brazil - Rio Grande Do Sul (RS) - Santa Maria

[washtubbass]

very very cool !

[dougsduarte]

Today I only play in my Boxbass, it have a great sound for playing and I renounced my fender Jazzbass! In my boxbass I am using as pickup a speaker of 2 inch, 5W and 8 ohm. For the time being it is working good.

[dougsduarte]

Hello! I constructed a Boxbass based on the images in your website. I do not know if my project was similar to yours, but it worked. oh! You are a genius, you created an excellent instrument with few resources.

[dougsduarte]

Olá, Eu construí um Boxbass baseado nas imagens em seu website. Eu não sei se o meu projeto ficou semelhante ao teu, mas funcionou. Puxa! Você é um gênio, pois conseguiu fazer um ótimo instrumento com poucos recursos. Hoje eu toco somente no meu Boxbass, considero muito bom de tocar e renunciei meu Fender Jazzbass!

[ilikescreaming]

you are the most phenomenal musician ever

[otusqueeky1]

WOW! nice bass dude! you've improved! wow! i want that!