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Permalink Reply by Tom T on August 26, 2018 at 10:58am

One of the members here (Uncle Fred) has a two string box guitar set up to be used as a bass. Not sure of the specs other than the fact that it uses steel strings and has it tuned G1 D2.

Hopefully, he will stop by the forum and provide more detail.

The key point is, yes, you can set it up to use as a bass.

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Permalink Reply by Kigar on August 26, 2018 at 12:20pm

To start, you can tune your cbg down a couple notes to see how bassy it is.  If you can look at a conventional bass, you can fret it at the nearest length to your scale length to see what notes are close if you used similar bass strings.  Bass strings might stress it a bit more though.  For fun check out the ubass too.

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on August 26, 2018 at 8:58pm

Keep it simple & just tune it to E & A like a bass? I would either use bass strings if they’ll fit in your tuners but if they don’t, you can always use an E & A guitar strings tuned lower.

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Permalink Reply by Kirk on August 27, 2018 at 2:46am

If you'd like to use it as a bass, you can put E and A guitar strings on it, and use an octave pedal.

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on August 27, 2018 at 6:31am

Have you tried using the “Search” function at the top of the page? There’s alot of examples of 2 string basses posted. Lots of times it’ll answer your questions without asking. Cheers, keep it simple :)

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Permalink Reply by JL on August 28, 2018 at 2:44am

Scale Length? Neck thickness? bass or guitar tuners? we need pics!

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