NSD - unboxing

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Sorry, uncrating. Got a redwood slab in for an electric upright bass project, and if you thought you’d seen some secure guitar packing jobs...
18 screws to secure just the Masonite top board to the wood side frame. (Plus a couple of those plastic strappings around the whole thing that almost took my leg off, they were so tight.)

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Dimensions? 3ft x 2ft? How does it contribute to the upright? Inquiring bassists want to know.
 

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Dimensions? 3ft x 2ft? How does it contribute to the upright? Inquiring bassists want to know.
As it came, the length is 33” by 17” at its widest, but I’ll mostly be using the 8” wide burliest part in the top of the pic., and not the whole length. It’ll be the soundboard of the bass. Redwood is very resonant, even though this will be amplified; I want to get some of an acoustic flavor in the mix. I’m thinking 36-38” scale length.
 

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It almost looks like a scientific specimen.
 

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Wow...I’m impressed. Can’t wait to see the finished piece
 

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Nice. Looking forward to see pictures of building process.

And that packing. I remember when I was about 10-15 - my father managed to borrow an old book from Royal Swedish Library in Stockholm. It was few hundred years old and possibly the only existing copy. So they put it in a wood crate about 25x20x15 inches - filled with wool like stuff made of wood - is chipwool correct? - and to turn the page you had to slide a piece of paper behind it and then turn - no touching allowed..

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Or something like my favourite Eberhard Weber?

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Would that be a bass that's an upright acoustic but also electrified with a pickup? Is it hollow?
Or something like my favourite Eberhard Weber?

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No, yes, and yes. The typical Electric Upright Bass (EUB) is like the one pictured above, played like an acoustic double bass, but usually not hollow. I’m to to try to follow a similar form factor but incorporate a somewhat hollow box to get more of the traditional sound, and not just “a fret less electric” sound that these are known for.
At least, that’s the goal. So, while the string sound will be coming basically from the piezos, I hope to get some of the openness of the acoustic hollow. (And, yes, the Aristocrat is an inspiration.)
 

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If you do go semi-hollow you might consider looking into a multi style pickup system that allows you to blend an onboard mini condenser mic with a UST/piezio/magnetic pickup to get more airiness.
 

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Perhaps you could consider implanting several piezos here and there. I have this wonderful bolt-neck single-pup DeArmond M-55 - and got to think that I could rout a tight cavity for BarcusBerry that I happen to have - the cavity would be in the body under the neck joint where it would get compressed by neck. Hopefully that would yield a more "natural" body sound than the bridge pups do. It would be quite easy to drill a small hole for the cable to pup-cavity - therefore having nothing visible to reveal the modification. And wiring would be like in my acoustics - stereo jack with piezo connected on the ring - so with normal guitar cables there would be no difference - but with stero y-cables I could have more fun.
 
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