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This project of your will be interesting to see as it evolves. Kudos for creating a set of drawing...which is helpful for others in understanding a much-forgotten step in making a guitar...drawn plans.
The tuning question really has only 3 options (string choice)...E-A, A-D, or D-G. Keeping the string pairs adjacent will make it easier to play, since bass is commonly played by running scale patterns in single notes, not chords. Having the string pairs adjacent means that when you move from one string to the next in a scale run, your hand will remain in that area of the neck.
If I were making one, the lowest (deepest) notes would be more desirable...after all, its a bass. At 30" scale, the other two strings (D-G) might sound closer in tone to a baritone scale guitar(not bad overall) but it all comes to preference.
The four strings of a bass guitar each have roughly the same tension. You can choose any two and the force on the neck will be about the same. A thicker string only exerts more tension if it's pulled up to the same pitch as a thin one.
I recently built a two string bass with 30" scale and thought that the DG tuning sounded fine but I like the deeper sounds better. Have it tuned AD now and will probably switch to EA and try that. I really love the sounds that Mark Sandman of Morphine got out of his 2 string slide bass. I just put up the pictures it you want to see it.
Just searched for him and there is this small doc on YouTube about his bases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQLC2kzkWg
Very interesting
Thanks for posting - I needed this. ;-)
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