Hi all, I am new to the forum.  I have started several CBG projects with kids in my after school guitar club.  Yesterday supplies arrived on my porch for a new and completely different project.  I fell in love with the RoadToad Kala U-Bass (ukulele Bass).  It is a baritone ukulele 20" scale bass.  It uses propriatary polyurathane strings and produces tones similar to an upright violin bass.  Unfortunatly, the $500 price tag has prevented me from running out and purchasing one.  I emailed the inventor from RoadToad and he said he would make me a custom length set of strings that will work with the standard size guitar scale.  The strings arived Friday.  The machine head tuners and active preamp eq from Ashbory arived Saturday.   I was planning on converting one of my guitars to a bass, but yesterday I found a nice wooden cutlery box at a junk store.  It is 18" x 12" x 3 1/2" land should be a perfect size for this project.  After ripping out all the silverware racks and felt, it now has a good tap tone.  I have been collecting random necks on ebay for CBG projects.  I have a funky 1960's left handed strat clone neck that will work perfect with the tuners I purchased.  I ordered a acoustic saddle transducer, and bridge on ebay.  I am still waiting for them to arrive. 

I will be disk sanding the inside of the cutlery box to make it thinner, and then designing a bracing system and installing the bridge and neck. 

It should be a cool "one of a kind" project.

Happy Building,

Dave  dwestmodesto