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

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Great project. Here's a Youtube of a baritone three string I made for Keni Lee Burgess. Box is made of cherry, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQu-tmZq8s
Get on it. I wanna see this beast!
The baritone looks cool. What three strings do you use?...E, A, D, ....I saw tuning something to G at the beginning?
Dave

Richard Sanabia said:
Great project. Here's a Youtube of a baritone three string I made for Keni Lee Burgess. Box is made of cherry, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQu-tmZq8s
This is the strings I will be using...on a vid showing the U-bass that I am taking the ideas from. It seems like a natural to adapt the technology to CBG's. They are using a baritone uke scale that is 20", which goes well with the size of our cigar boxes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PbnbbIpEw&feature=related
that u-bass looks/sounds dead cool!
Richard Sanabia said:
Great project. Here's a Youtube of a baritone three string I made for Keni Lee Burgess. Box is made of cherry, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQu-tmZq8s

Holy cow, what a behemoth! Those must have been some BIG cigars... lol.

I'm guessing you built the box from scratch. Through neck? Braced?
Did you ever finish this project?  Pics?  Those Kala bass ukes sound awesome!  Have been thinking about making a cbg acoustic bass guitar for a while, but that bass uke is way to cool.  May need to go that route.  Would love to hear how your project went.

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