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  • Scott aka Farmer Ted January 9, 2015 at 3:34pm

    Kid is right, a very long box is needed to use a standard electric bass neck. By the way, modern bass scale is either 34" or short scale is 30". I built one last year with a very large cedar box I found on evil-bay.

    Here's a photo:

    306400593?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024The box was 19.5" long, and the neck joins the box at about the 17th fret. As you can see, the bridge(s) are nearly at the tail end of the box. The neck is a 34" scale.

    • The Phrygian Kid > Scott aka Farmer Ted January 9, 2015 at 3:56pm

      oh thats nice.

      ee-i-ee-i-oh

  • The Phrygian Kid January 9, 2015 at 2:17pm

    your problem with this is the amount of body that a fender bass has between the neck end and the bridge.

    you'll need a very large box to make it work, unless you bolt your neck to a 'thru stick' and have the end of the neck a few inches separate from the end of the box. *put a pickup or two in that space..

  • Tom T January 9, 2015 at 2:04pm

    You didn't mention what you were building. Is it a 3-string (GDG. DAD tuning) build or is it to be a Bass guitar built around a cigar box?

    I may be dating myself, but I think the standard scale length for electric base was around 35" for many years. It may be different these days.The typical scale length for a 3~4 string CBG is 24~25.5". Big difference from a bass.

    Fret spacing is based on the scale length. That being said, a bass neck (with frets) will not have fret spacing that is correct for a normal CBG. If you are planning to build a bass-CBG with a scale length up around 35" then the ebass buy may work, but in the end it's all about scale length.

    Electric bass' usually have between 20 and 24 frets. I think the 12th fret rule applies to bass's as well. If that is the case, you could ask the seller to measure from the nut to the 12th fret. Double that distance and that would be the correct scale length for that neck. If the length works for your build, you fret spacing is okay and you're good to go. If the calculated scale length is way out there beyond what you intended, then you may want to pass. Also, building a 35" scale length CBG and trying to use normal guitar strings (not bass strings) may prove very difficult (or impossible) to tune to your desired point.

    There are a lot of fretted necks for CBGs over on the Gitty site. The prices are reasonable, so depending on what you intend to build, it might be a good alternative.

    Good luck with it. The real experts should be along shortly.

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