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Comment by Scott aka Farmer Ted on March 25, 2016 at 12:31pm

3 piezos straight to the jack, positive/negative to proper tabs on jack, no problem.

Metal strings through 3 copper pennies & strings crossing over copper tube bridge, no problem.

Strings grounded? If not, problem. A good place to add your bridge/string ground is at the copper tube bridge.

Comment by Murdoc_420 on March 25, 2016 at 9:06am

Finished up my first CBB. 3 stringer, 3 piece lam neck, 3 piezo discs (one on side for 'drum').

 Still need to oil it.

Question about pick ups: I'm running through a Zoom B3 pedal and getting a little static. If I touch the pedal with a barefoot or touch the cord head at the jack to ground it the static goes away.

 Should I ground the jack somehow? It's just 3 piezos straight to the jack. The strings are in contact with pennies and a copper tube bridge (would that make the static?).

Comment by Murdoc_420 on March 21, 2016 at 9:05am

3 string Bass in progress. Trying to take my time and get everything right. Glueing up some lams this time.

Comment by Murdoc_420 on February 29, 2016 at 5:56pm

@Robert, love it man. Awesome you left the mop head attached.

 Get a gig at the coffee shop, even if you don't make tips you'd still get paid to mop up when you're done :D

Comment by Robert Killen on October 31, 2015 at 12:27pm

They asked me where I came up with the idea to build this. I told them, "what else are you going to do with a mop, an oil changing pan and a cast-off boiler room vent cover?"

It's a two-stringer - D-G, .080 weedwacker strings, a trowel for a tailpiece. It's all found parts except for the fretboard, which I'll finish nicely (and incongruously) sometime soon.

And it sounds great! A little soft, but coffee shop playable.

I'll post more photos on my page, if you're interested. Cheers!

Comment by Where's Uranus? on June 18, 2015 at 10:28am

I'll ocassionally play shirtless, but I never get oiled up to play ;)

Comment by Hex on June 18, 2015 at 9:56am

Its long now I am afraid. Still I now have as of tonight a fully functional bass diddley bow. 34 inch scale length. I have yet to fit the twin piezo pickup as I have to pull them out of my LPG first, and I can't do that till my ThinBucker arrives. I will post a picture when its done and all oiled up and what have you

Comment by Where's Uranus? on June 13, 2015 at 10:13am

Any pics of it? There's a board on this forum for Teisco's and the like.

Comment by Hex on June 13, 2015 at 5:37am

It was either Kay, Satellite or Jedson. I used to own a blonde short scale Jedson Telecaster bass, horrible thing it was

Comment by Hex on June 13, 2015 at 5:33am

Kay guitars, god that takes me back. They always seemed to be for sale in catalogues, the kind where you can buy on tick, you know for a few quid a week until its paid off. As working class kids it was the only way we could afford an electric guitar in the 1970s

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