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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on July 31, 2010 at 7:20am

My friend here on the Nation built me a real nice 3 string bass. I would suggest you contact him about building the neck with the correct scale length. This sounds like a great idea for a build. Here is his page:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/RichardSanabia
Please give me a shout if it works out. Enjoy your build, Keni Lee

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Permalink Reply by pi_r_squared on August 1, 2010 at 5:05am

it looks like Richard does some really nice stuff, and maybe it's just psychotic, but I have this obsession with trying to make it myself, even though I may need to treat it like "making pancakes from scratch" (plan on throwing the first one away), unless I happened to stumble across a neck from an otherwise-trashed acoustic electric bass.

....and if it doesn't work, I may end up building a really nice canoe paddle :)

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on August 2, 2010 at 1:09pm

You know, a canoe paddle is not a bad idea at all. Every time I see mine in the shed I get a little more tempted to take it over to the workbench.................

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